I have told myself not to try any more new release of any distro if I am not going to use it which I know I won't. But I still couldn't stop myself downloading one if I see a new release on DistroWatch.
I downloaded Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu because I wanted to try KDE 4.5 as I had tried before, didn't go well last time.
It's pretty same story this time, I had to disable modeset. The installer looked very pretty, but it tried to download files from Internet even it has detected no connection from that machine. So I had to go into the Live CD to enable PPPoE connection.
Once again, the same old story, those network manager never works. I added a new DSL account but there is nowhere I could click to bring that connection up. I ended up with pppoeconf, commandline tools are always more reliable.
The installation ran well for the rest. After rebooted, still with nomodeset, I got into the KDE4.5. And I have to do pppoeconf again, the installer didn't save the configuration. I wasn't surprised.
After I brought up DSL connection, I ran package manager do a system update. There really is nothing much to say about a new release, they are the same somewhat. Similar way to do this and that, nothing really new under the sun.
It's just another update of Ubuntu. Debian-based, Ubuntu-based, Fedora-based, etc.... same and same.
An advise to myself: Do not try any more.
I downloaded Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu because I wanted to try KDE 4.5 as I had tried before, didn't go well last time.
It's pretty same story this time, I had to disable modeset. The installer looked very pretty, but it tried to download files from Internet even it has detected no connection from that machine. So I had to go into the Live CD to enable PPPoE connection.
Once again, the same old story, those network manager never works. I added a new DSL account but there is nowhere I could click to bring that connection up. I ended up with pppoeconf, commandline tools are always more reliable.
The installation ran well for the rest. After rebooted, still with nomodeset, I got into the KDE4.5. And I have to do pppoeconf again, the installer didn't save the configuration. I wasn't surprised.
After I brought up DSL connection, I ran package manager do a system update. There really is nothing much to say about a new release, they are the same somewhat. Similar way to do this and that, nothing really new under the sun.
It's just another update of Ubuntu. Debian-based, Ubuntu-based, Fedora-based, etc.... same and same.
An advise to myself: Do not try any more.