[ILUG] To ubuntu or not to ubuntu

[Justin Mason]

Timothy Murphy writes:
> On Thursday 08 February 2007 13:24, Robert Sweetnam wrote:
> 
> > > Is there a KDE oriented distro?
> 
> > It all depends on what you are used to so if you like and are
> > confortable with KDE then stick with it. Of course that is one of the
> > advantages of Linux, that is you have plenty of choice but of course
> > that can be a disadvantage too. To answer your answer about a KDE based
> > distro, there is also Kubuntu! 
> 
> What exactly is the difference between Ubuntu with KDE
> (which I am running now) and Kubuntu?

Nothing!  It's well-packaged that way.  Once you apt-get install
kubuntu-desktop, you are no longer using Ubuntu, now Kubuntu.

> > Also I the last time I ran SuSE (EL9) it 
> > used KDE by default.
> 
> I've tried SuSE in the past.
> It struck me as like Fedora, but not so good.
> 
> I've thought about Knoppix, which seems to run KDE by default,
> but I've never worked out how one gets it on the hard disk.

oh god no ;)  Knoppix has some awful stuff, like this in /etc/profile :

  [ "$PS1" -a -f /etc/bash_completion ] && . /etc/bash_completion
  PS1="\u@\h:\w\\$ "
  alias la="ls -la --color=auto"


- 1. /etc/profile is run by shells other than bash.

- 2. the presence of a set $PS1 is used to indicate whether a shell is
  interactive or not. setting it means that all scripts using that test
  are broken.

- 3. bash_completion is similarly a horrible hack that shouldn't be part
  of the standard /bin/sh startup sequence.

One thing about distros is that you should at least be able to count
on sane stuff in /etc/profile. ;)

--j.