Greetings
Believe it or not I've only come across a reference to trinity in the last week or so when checking out porteus usb-stick linux. It really cheered me up that kde3 (as tde) is still not only alive but seemingly very healthy!
At present I am still using kubuntu 8.04 for obvious reasons but would be delighted to install a more up-to-date os and tde on another partition on my hard drive.
I have already downloaded kubuntu 12.04 (always in the hope, in vain, that it had somehow become more kde3 than kde4!) but I don't see any mention of (k)ubuntu 12.04 in the installation instruction page, so I presume I should use a release from last year. Also I notice that ubuntu 11.10 is mentioned rather than kubuntu 11.10. Is it recommended that I use ubuntu 11.10 rather than kubuntu 11.10 in case of conflicts? Or does it matter at all? I also have an iso of xubuntu 11.10 - would that be suitable?
Any advice would be welcomed.
Thanks
Lou
On 16 June 2012 15:01, Lou Gogan lou@lougogan.com wrote:
Greetings
Believe it or not I've only come across a reference to trinity in the last week or so when checking out porteus usb-stick linux. It really cheered me up that kde3 (as tde) is still not only alive but seemingly very healthy!
At present I am still using kubuntu 8.04 for obvious reasons but would be delighted to install a more up-to-date os and tde on another partition on my hard drive.
I have already downloaded kubuntu 12.04 (always in the hope, in vain, that it had somehow become more kde3 than kde4!) but I don't see any mention of (k)ubuntu 12.04 in the installation instruction page, so I presume I should use a release from last year. Also I notice that ubuntu 11.10 is mentioned rather than kubuntu 11.10. Is it recommended that I use ubuntu 11.10 rather than kubuntu 11.10 in case of conflicts? Or does it matter at all? I also have an iso of xubuntu 11.10 - would that be suitable?
Any advice would be welcomed.
Thanks
Lou
First of all, welcome to the Trinity mailing list :-)
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and it works very well. 12.04 does not yet have stable Trinity packages. I originally installed the regular ubuntu 11.10 and installed trinity packages on top of it. There shouldn't be any conflicts with KDE4, but it's annoying to have it wasting space on my system - so I installed the regular Ubuntu, and then uninstalled Unity. Xubuntu 11.10 would be suitable.
Calvin
On Saturday 16 June 2012 20:38:08 Calvin Morrison wrote:
On 16 June 2012 15:01, Lou Gogan lou@lougogan.com wrote:
Greetings
Believe it or not I've only come across a reference to trinity in the last
week or so when checking out porteus usb-stick linux.
It really cheered me up that kde3 (as tde) is still not only alive but
seemingly very healthy!
At present I am still using kubuntu 8.04 for obvious reasons but would be
delighted to install a more up-to-date os and tde
on another partition on my hard drive.
I have already downloaded kubuntu 12.04 (always in the hope, in vain, that
it had somehow become more kde3 than kde4!)
but I don't see any mention of (k)ubuntu 12.04 in the installation
instruction page, so I presume I should use a release from
last year. Also I notice that ubuntu 11.10 is mentioned rather than kubuntu
11.10. Is it recommended that I use ubuntu 11.10
rather than kubuntu 11.10 in case of conflicts? Or does it matter at all? I
also have an iso of xubuntu 11.10 - would that be
suitable?
Any advice would be welcomed.
Thanks
Lou
First of all, welcome to the Trinity mailing list :-)
I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and it works very well. 12.04 does not yet have stable Trinity packages. I originally installed the regular ubuntu 11.10 and installed trinity packages on top of it. There shouldn't be any conflicts with KDE4, but it's annoying to have it wasting space on my system - so I installed the regular Ubuntu, and then uninstalled Unity. Xubuntu 11.10 would be suitable.
Calvin
I'll try out the xubuntu 11.10 iso I already have.
Thanks
Lou
Lou Gogan wrote:
At present I am still using kubuntu 8.04 for obvious reasons but would be delighted to install a more up-to-date os and tde on another partition on my hard drive.
Because I have bad experiences with non-LTS Ubuntu versions, I would recommend using Kubuntu Lucid. You can download an ISO with Lucid+Trinity as well, but the Trinity version is not up to date (although it works fine). The standard kernel is old, but newer kernels have been backported to Lucid and you can install them through the repositories.
Basically Kubuntu Lucid with Trinity and a backported kernel is what I tend to set up now.
Ubuntu Precise is the next LTS, but it still has many bugs and Trinity doesn't work that great on it (you can hack up the Oneiric release to install or use the nightlies, but neither are problem free). Hopefully with the next Trinity release and more bugfixing by the Ubuntu team, it will be able to supersede Lucid.
Best regards, Julius
On Saturday 16 June 2012 20:46:06 Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
Lou Gogan wrote:
At present I am still using kubuntu 8.04 for obvious reasons but would be
delighted to install a more up-to-date os and tde
on another partition on my hard drive.
Because I have bad experiences with non-LTS Ubuntu versions, I would recommend using Kubuntu Lucid. You can download an ISO with Lucid+Trinity as well, but the Trinity version is not up to date (although it works fine). The standard kernel is old, but newer kernels have been backported to Lucid and you can install them through the repositories.
Basically Kubuntu Lucid with Trinity and a backported kernel is what I tend to set up now.
Ubuntu Precise is the next LTS, but it still has many bugs and Trinity doesn't work that great on it (you can hack up the Oneiric release to install or use the nightlies, but neither are problem free). Hopefully with the next Trinity release and more bugfixing by the Ubuntu team, it will be able to supersede Lucid.
Best regards, Julius
I'll try out xubuntu 11.10 iso as I already have it but will download the ubuntu 11.10 and kubuntu 10.04 (lts) to see which are the most stable on my sys. (I found the kubuntu 8.04 as stable as one could want - it's just that it's getting OLD, like myself !).
Thanks
Lou
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