| Reviewer finds Ubuntu good, but not good enough |
Jan. 03, 2006
The South African Linux "brothers" -- Ubuntu and Kubuntu -- have been basking in lots of good press lately, but DesktopLinux.com columnist Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols doesn't think either version of the hot new distro is particularly well-suited to his personal needs.
"Ubuntu uses the GNOME interface, while Kubuntu uses KDE. Specifically, the newest version, Ubuntu 5.10, also known as Breezy Badger, is a Debian-based Linux distribution," writes Vaughan-Nichols. "On the GNOME side, Ubuntu uses The GNOME Project's GNOME 2.12, while Kubuntu uses KDE 3.4.3. In short, you simply choose your interface, and you don't have to worry about the rest. Kubuntu 5.10, which is the one I worked with the most, can also be upgraded to KDE 3.5."
Vaughan-Nichols praises Kubuntu's ease of use and generous helping of freely downloadable software, but bemoans the lack of a top-level interface to a terminal window, as well the awkwardness of not being able to run system administration utilities as the root user in a "normal" manner.
Read his review of Ubuntu/Kubuntu here.
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