Kubuntu 9.04 is out in BETA

I'm all over that one!

http://mirrors.ccs.neu.edu/releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/9.04/

 

I'm running it now (x64)...this is the KDE your mother wanted you to have Very fast with Ext4 on /. Nice to the eyes
EDIT: Weird wallpaper....that does NOT come Outta The Box lol

 

How fast is it? I'm very suspicious about ext4 but I love to hear about the speed improvements people always boast about.

 

My opinion is that it's at least as fast, or maybe faster than KDE 3.5.10...I'd say faster. I have EXT4 on my root partition, EXT3 on my /home...I guess I'll see how it goes. So far, so good

EDIT: I'm using Opera now, and it's on Fire!! Smokin'

ps: where ya been, Calvin?

 

pretty interesting.. thanks for the share..

 

I'll be trying it soon then, I used most of the alphas, after all I remember when Amarok and Kmail couldn't be installed together on Jaunty

 

Do you think it will work on a pen drive?

 

Why so ??

 

I see pen drives in my sleep. I am going to get one of these distros to work if it's the last thing I do before I smash my pc.

 

I hear that you don't get the full speed improvements unless both partitions are ext4. I've been a lot of places, would be complicated if I tried to explain it all. You could PM me if you really wanna know.

I've always used ext3 so ext4 is very new to me.

 

Im using Ubuntu 9.04 and have it on Ext4 as well. I'm also not using the provided initramfs for Ubuntu, and am shocked at the speed. Boot is much faster than what Ubuntu usually is, its almost as fast as my cut down Gentoo install.

 

Don't feel alone...I've been silently failing. I went out and bought an 8 gig lexar for this, and all I've managed to do is get Puppy to boot 'ONCE'

 

Lol 95% of the times I try to boot a distro from my pendrive it works perfect.....4GB Cruzer Micro.

 

Don't let kingbob get his hands on ya!

 

I can get MInt and Ubuntu to boot with no problem depending on which installation method I use. Getting everything to work as a normal hdd install is another story, special effects, dvd playback, running persistently etc. and have it boot properly has been the problem.

 

Haha, OpenSuSE 11.1 KDE runs from my external hard drive(full install, too).

 

I wonder if it would work on a flash drive with all the goodies functional?

 

I'm going to try one again for the gipper....will 'port back

 

Am I the Gipper?

 

I guess you could be the official NRB Pendrive Poster User

 

Do you have trouble with your point stick? I disable my touchpad but it's still active when I am using the point stick and hit the touchpad. This problem is well known to Dell DualPoint touchpad/pointstick. Do you know any work around this issue?

 

I haven't tried to disable my touchpad yet, so I can't comment on that. I'll check it as I usually disable touchpad because it drives me nuts...