[plug] Firefox 1.5

[Richard Meyer]

On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:24 +0800, Ranime wrote:
> Sorry , it seems that I lost a line of that email in the middle.
> I'll try again... **** below.
> 
>  Thank you Senectus , the web page link was very informative and made
>  sense, a bit like plf for Mandriva, with security.
> 
>  I suppose I'm a kde fan, only because that was the first I used /
>  learnt with linux, I did try gnome but could not get used to it.
> 
>  That brings me to this open question,
>  Kubuntu , apart from it being kde and maybe not your preference,
>  would you say that it is the same stability / usability etc.. as
>  Ubuntu ? what is your opinion..... have you had a look at it.
>  & what would you say are the benefits of Ubuntu as a distribution ?

I'm a KDE fan from way-back (SuSE 6.x or 7.x (I know I used it under
7.3, but I think I used it before then)), and I've used KDE under SUSE,
Mandrake, Gentoo. I've installed and used both Ubuntu (which I like),
and Kubuntu, which I thought was awful. It seemed as though they hadn't
actually done any work on Kubuntu apart from the KDE install - I
disliked it intensely.

At present I run SUSE 10.0, Gentoo, and Ubuntu (on my laptop) - I do not
run Kubuntu.

Advantages of Ubuntu as a distro are  - whatever the advantages of
Debian are, with a decent (n00b-friendly) installer (which Debian is
starting to provide), and a company financed by a billionaire who
doesn't mind spending his money. And a nice wallpaper. ;-)
> 
> *****  I personally started with Redhat 7 and moved to *******
>  Mandrake 8 only because I had so much trouble back then tring to get
>  an external dialup connection happening.
> 
>  Now I have three computers running Mandriva 10.1 - 10.2 and 2006.
>  I'm very happy with Mandriva and for various configuration reasons
>  have left each computer running 3 different versions of Mandriva.
> 
>  I don't want any flame wars here , I think peoples opinions are
>  important, It would be good to hear / read why people use the
>  distribution that they have chosen.

Mine for what it's worth.

-- 
Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>