Trying out Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4

     I had the x86 version of Kubuntu 8.04 KDE4 installed for a few days. It was not too bad. I rather like the way it looks, although I prefer the way that Gnome is organized more though. It ran decently well, after I installed about three-hundred updates anyway. One of the bigger problems with KDE4 is that most programs for KDE still were built for KDE3 and start up really slowly in KDE4. If you were to look at the screenshots of OpenOffice in KDE4 you would easily see that all is not as it should be. But for an alpha program in runs pretty well. Odd thing though, when I tried configuring Konquerers various settings like say for cookies, all it told me was that some libraries were missing and that I could not do anything about it. And KsCD was unable to play a CD for some reason, but at least Dragon Player was able  to play a CD. Right now I am trying out Xubuntu 8.04 and will shortly write up a review on Xubuntu 8.04. Tell me what those of you reading this think of Kubuntu 8.04 and KDE4. I also put links for downloading all of the (commonly used) versions of Ubuntu 8.04. on the page “How to Get Linux“.

Sin Cere,

Dirk Limon