Kubuntu Impressions
OK, so I'm a bit of a late bloomer on this one but I've finally given an Ubuntu
derivative a go and I have to say it's really kind of nice. I've pretty much
been in love with Slackware since I started using Linux as my primary OS and
never really gave another disto a chance. That is until I recently acquired a
2nd hand laptop. When I worked at
Inova Technologies I was given an IBM Thinkpad T30 to use.
It was a nice and fairly Linux friendly laptop on which I had installed
Slackware 10.2 at the time. Much of it worked but I had to jump though
some serious hoops to get laptopish things, such as suspend to disk, working.
I
recorded my
efforts and if you take a look at that article you will see it was far from
easy. The results were nice and it was one heck of a learning experience, but
I just don't have that kind of time right now to do it all again.
I'm not going to go into a review or Kubuntu, that's been done elsewhere and a
quick web search will probably bring up a slew of reviews. But I was happy to
see that everything, and I mean everything, worked right out of the box when I
installed Kubuntu. Suspend to RAM, suspend to disk, xorg, and wireless Just
Worked© with no intervention at all.
Don't get me wrong, I still love my Slackware and will keep it on my
workstation and whatever servers I choose to run but Kubuntu made for a nice
quick workstation with minimal fuss. Pretty cool stuff. Linux sure has come a
long way it seems, even in the short time that I've actually been using it.