Re: moving from Kubuntu 10.4 to squeeze
Hi Martin,
On Sunday, January 27, 2013 08:57:39 Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Hi Mike!
>
>
> 1) Use Wheezy. As I wrote it still has KDEPIM 1 as of KDE SC 4.4.11 which
> means that it will have it during its complete lifetime according to the
> Debian stable policy. I am writing from such a KDEPIM 1 :). In fact its the
> only KDEPIM available officially as of today.
>
>
> 2) I strongly recommend you to subscribe and follow debian-kde mailing
> list. Its a low volume, high signal to noise ratio mailing list where
> Debian kde users are subscribed to, also experienced ones!, as well as
> Debian Qt/KDE maintainers and some KDE upstream developers. There has been
> a discussion about KDEPIM 2 in KDE SC 4.10 recently for example.
>
>
> 3) You can find some KDE SC install instructions on the website of the
> Debian Qt/KDE maintainers:
>
> http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/
>
> These give an overview over the packaging structure.
>
>
> 4) If after a while you feel adventurous or want to try possible newer
> versions, read:
>
> http://qt-kde.debian.net/
>
> Currently there are KDE SC 4.9.5 base packages available there which work
> quite nicely. Stay away from them for now tough, in case you use KDEPIM
> with mutiple identifies with different sent folders as that is broken
> currently. And really subscribe debian-kde mailing list if you intend to
> use packages from there.
>
>
> Hope this increases the signal to noise ratio in that thread again a bit.
>
> Ciao,
Thanks for the tip. I'll try Wheezy in a VM first as I did with Squeeze.
I seem to prefer the Debian way of doing things over Ubuntu anyway. For
instance I always create a root account.
Mike
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