Running Kubuntu Edgy Eft
About a month ago I first installed Kubuntu Dapper Drake (6.06) on one of my home office machines. I really liked it. Last week, I decided to ditch the old version of Mandriva I've been running for about 18 months on my primary machine, a Toshiba laptop, and give Kubuntu a try there too. This time using the latest version, 6.10, otherwise known as Edgy Eft.
Unlike others, I've found the experience fantastic. It's not hard to compare a new OS favourably with one from two years ago, so I'm not saying Kubuntu is better than any of the other new distros out there. This is not what I'd call a review, as I haven't run most of the obvious alternatives, and none to the degree where I'm able to comment on the specific distribution differences. Rather, I'm simply comparing the experience of running Kubuntu Edgy (released a few weeks ago) to running my old version of Mandriva LE 2005, as well as Windows XP to some degree.
I've been impressed with so many of the little touches, mostly KDE improvements. Changing settings is just that much more intuitive now, and KDE 3.5 is a huge improvement over 3.3, which I was running before. I've already become reliant upon the new close tab button found on each tab (Firefox 2 as opposed to Firefox 1.5), and the Adept Package manager is just great.
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