Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze
On Friday, January 25, 2013 08:11:48 Rob Owens wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0500, Mike McGinn wrote:
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu
> > user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I
> > have been less and less happy with the so called "quality" and I am
> > planning a move to Debian. As a Kontact user the problems reported with
> > the new versions of that particular package are dictating the move to
> > Squeeze. (I subscribe to both the kde-pim users and developers mail
> > lists.)
> >
> > I have been experimenting with an installation in a virtual machine and I
> > am getting ready to make the jump. I am happy with what I have
> > experienced in my VM and I just want to know if there are any pitfalls I
> > have not foreseen. My system is backed up every night, so I am not
> > worried about losing anything.
>
> Squeeze is fairly old at this point, and will be replaced shortly (a few
> months, maybe?) with Wheezy. Squeeze will still be supported for a year
> after that -- or have they committed to two years now? But my point is
> that you might want to consider Wheezy. Wheezy is currently the
> "testing" distribution, but will be released as "stable" as soon as it's
> ready.
>
> If you run into any hardware compatibility issues with the stable
> release, you can always look into getting a newer kernel from the
> backports repository:
> deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main
>
> -Rob
Hi Rob,
Thanks for the information on Wheezy.
My main concern now with KDE is avoiding the mess that is going on with the
kde-pim, I have been using that for years and have a few gig of email stored
in it. Right now I want to use the older version. I did some research last
night (google) and found no incompatibilities with my laptop. The new version
of kde-pim has been a mess for some time now and from the traffic on the
developers and users list there is no end in sight. I will move to Wheezy when
it becomes stable and if it has a usable kde-pim.
I do have several servers at work that I am going to be moving from Ubuntu
server to Debian also.
--
Mike McGinn KD2CNU
Ex Uno Plurima
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