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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] LINUX / UBUNTU
From:       vailima <vailima () icontech ! com>
Date:       2005-03-01 16:27:47
Message-ID: 20050301162745.1ADC568A15 () smtp ! icontech ! com
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Interestingly enough, the "touchpad" on this Dell lapt top works better when using \
LINUX than when using MS/BRAND XP.

I noticed that KDE was missing on the install of UBUNTU but the installed GUI isn't \
too bad. May be GNU?

As for installing the printer in CUPS, just how do you go about doing that?




> 
> Subject: Re: [kde-linux] LINUX / UBUNTU
> From: Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@decoulon.ch>
> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:53:30 +0000
> To: kde-linux@kde.org
> 
> On Monday, 28 February 2005 21.21, vailima wrote:
> > For what it's worth ...
> > 
> > Just recd a copy of UBUNTU and it's not too bad. Came all the way from
> > "downtown" Switzerland!
> > 
> > Any of you have any experience with LINUX - UBUNTU?
> 
> I installed the PPC version on a PowerBook. It worked
> 
> > Problem .1. Can't get UBUNTU to recognize the "touchpad" on the Dell
> > Inspiron 5100 laptop
> 
> The touchpad on the Mac did work - as far as a touchpad "works", I find them 
> unusable. 
> 
> > Problem .2. Can't get the software to "activate" the printer. For want of
> > a better term the software knows there  is a printer on the other end  of
> > the USB port but nothing prints.
> 
> I should take a look, but I'd think Ubuntu uses cups and you should configure 
> the printer in cups (localhost:631)
> 
> > Experience is showing so far that UBUNTU is lacking a lot of the "bells,
> > whistles and chrome" that Mandrake offers but suspicision has it, this
> > UBUNTU is a good OS based on LINUX. New LINUX users might want to get a
> > copy of this OS.
> 
> Ubuntu is based on Debian and does not install KDE by default - actually it 
> does not install it at all on a PPC
> 
> Thierry
> 
> -- 
> "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
> sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
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