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Ubuntu or Kubuntu?

Asked by Ampers

If possible, could replies to this question state whether they have used both Ubuntu and Kubuntu with a Palm or similar device?

I have now been usunbg Ubuntu for a year and have found syncs with my Palm wrought with difficulty. I use Evolution with jpilot and sometimes to works and sometimes it doesn't. Sync'ing with contacts is fine, but I bring in Google Calendars to Evolution and it is very hit or miss whether an appointment gets sync'd or not.

If I move to Kubuntu, would I find things any better with kpilot and KDE Mail and calendars?

Ampers

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Mohamed Zaian (mzaian) said : 		#1

you can install the KDE interface to your current Ubuntu installation and whether it will help you or not

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Ampers (ampers) said : 		#2

Thanks. I am downloading the ISO as we speak and will load it later.

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

It's probably better to just install the KDE desktop to Ubuntu rather than to try reinstalling Kubuntu over the top of Ubuntu which is likely to result in reformatting your partition and wiping data?

I'm not sure whether Kubuntu or the KDE components would actually fix the problem you are having, it seems a side-issue?

Take care, good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Ampers (ampers) said : 		#4

Not quite sure how to do that. On the other hand I have been playing around with Kubuntu (beta) with the live CD. My X-Fi card works and also my NVID card works, the two most important things.

I have been playing with the Live CD version this afternoon and rather like the way it does things, and the PIM set of software seems 100% better than Evolution which is pretty normal for anything out of the Novell stables :-)

I have 1.5 TB over three disks, and have my data in its own partition. As I am not sure how to change the address for my home file I just copy the home folder into a spare partition, reload my opsys, then reload back the data. The whole operation takes hardly anytime so its no problem to go back again to Ubuntu later if I need to.

But thanks for your concern, you are always most helpful and I really do appreciate it. As you know I am almost 70 and most people don't realise that this means, to a lover of all types of alcohol, the short term memory gets shot to hell. Now, what were we discussing... ?

I will log everything I do and write about it in my blog (ampers.blogspot.com).

Best regards,

Ampers