Following the release of KDE 3.4.2 yesterday, the Kubuntu team is proud to announce a new Kubuntu livecd with KDE 3.4.2 and the also recently released Koffice 1.4.1.
Following the release of KDE 3.4.2 yesterday, the Kubuntu team is proud to announce a new Kubuntu livecd with KDE 3.4.2 and the also recently released Koffice 1.4.1.
Does anybody know if it’s only on the LiveCD, or have the repositories been updated as well?
The repositories have been updated as well. That’s where they build the livecd from
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Not the normal repositories but the additional ones given on the linked page.
Thanks, I’ll try them tonite!
I wish it would install on my notebook
It hangs right in the beginning of the boot
Is Kubuntu’s LiveCD similar to SLAX’s whereby you can use the LiveCD to perform an installation to a computer’s hard drive?
In other words, does this Kubuntu update benefit only folks who run Kubuntu from CDs? Or do hard drive installation folks benefit as well?
I ask because when I installed Kubuntu after it was initially released, I was unable to successfully install KDevelop. Despite adding several repositories to my sources file, I was unable to get all of the dependencies for KDevelop. Anyway, after fussing with the repositories/dependencies issues, I concluded that Kubuntu wasn’t quite ready for use yet and moved on to another distro. However, I’ve been hoping that Kubuntu’s repositories situation would get better so that I could install Kubuntu with KDevelop and then stick with Kubuntu.
(K)Ubuntu LiveCDs cannot be installed.
> In other words, does this Kubuntu update benefit only folks who run Kubuntu from CDs?
No, follow the link for the 3.4.2 repository.
I mean, it’s really great to have early packages, but it makes me wonder if they just compiled the sources, wrapped the debian packages and posted them without doing adequate testing. It’s just too quick for testing everything. Of course, they must have played with the beta versions, but still…
kde 3.4.2 and koffice 1.4.1 are bug fix releases not major releases. They should be a culmination of testing and bug fixes done since the kde 3.4.1 and koffice 1.4.0 releases. While more testing is always good these releases should need far less testing than major releases would.
I find it kind of silly how the different projects put out bug fix releases then most distros backport only a few of those fixes to their release so users get things like koffice 1.4.0-distroPatch1 instead of the 1.4.1 release. It would be better if the distros worked with the different projects so that the project’s bugfix release would be the same as the distro’s bug fix release. I acknowledge that this can’t always be done because of patches the distros have added to the packages.
I have asked since I have seen regressions in minor releases. It could just be a new problem coming up with a compilation flag. In my opinion, it doesn’t matter whether it was a bugfix: everything should be tested. Distro-specific patching is a great example, even if we don’t include backports in that. After all, these bugfixes can break patches and it did happened in the past.
> It’s just too quick for testing everything.
KDE releases source tarballs to distributors one week before the public announcement.
Based on my personal experience and that of others (see the Kubuntu forum at:
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=68 ) a large number of people can’t get the CD to start. Mine fails at the following point:
* Id “6” responding too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
* no more processes left in this runlevel
How disappointing!
pja
Same here. Ubuntu releases are the only LiveCDs I’ve consistently had problems with (Kubuntu x86 and Ubuntu PPC, both 5.x).
As a Debian user, I’m interested to see what exactly it does better than a straight Debian KDE (or for that matter, what the LiveCD does better than Knoppix). So far, I’m unimpressed.
Is kubuntu any better than Ubunti after you install KDE… I ask because I was not happy with Ubunti at all.
List of problems I had with Ubuntu:
1. K3B wouldn’t work even after I installed the necessary patches.
2. I was only able to get MP3 support in XMMS while I prefer Amorak, and the visual plugins for amorak would crash.
3. I couldn’t get the java plugin to install/work, and had to download the rpm file from sun’s website, but when I used alian to convert it to a deb package it had dependency issues.
4.Since I couldn’t get java installed I couldn’t install limewire
5. I could only access my NTFS partition via root, all other users would get access denied.
I heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu, but I wasn’t impressed too much.
Is kubuntu any better than Ubunti after you install KDE… I ask because I was not happy with Ubunti at all.
List of problems I had with Ubuntu:
1. K3B wouldn’t work even after I installed the necessary patches.
2. I was only able to get MP3 support in XMMS while I prefer Amorak, and the visual plugins for amorak would crash.
3. I couldn’t get the java plugin to install/work, and had to download the rpm file from sun’s website, but when I used alian to convert it to a deb package it had dependency issues.
4.Since I couldn’t get java installed I couldn’t install limewire
5. I could only access my NTFS partition via root, all other users would get access denied.
I heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu, but I wasn’t impressed too much.
1. K3B worked perfectly for me, even on Ubuntu running Gnome. Did you edit config files or anything like that? Mix repositories?
2. Never used Amarok so not sure.
3. I have never had a problem with Java on Ubuntu. Why would you bother converting the RPM to DEB when they (Sun) have a Java installer that will work on Debian (or any other distro)? All the RPM does for you is extract the files and put them in the proper place. You still have to edit your .bashrc file. So the extra step of extracting the files doesn’t really count since converting the RPM was an extra step. Check java.sun.com for the Java installer that is not an RPM.
4. Running Limewire right now.
5. You have to put a special option in your fstab file to fix this problem. Can’t remember what it is though. Try googling it or man fstab
Did you ask anyone on IRC??
I downloaded the ISO for the live CD, but had no luck getting it to work. Tried it on a HP desktop that normally runs Fedora 2, a Dell Inspiron 5000e and an old Pentium 1 clunker. In each case it hung after trying to start X, saying that processes were respawning too fast. I think I used to see that problem back in the Redhat 6 days. Klax with the new KDE worked good though.
had the same problem . i dl the live iso twice , tried it on the notebook and the desktop machine , but no success.
reminds me on the last release
Kubuntu is beautiful
Can you please explain why Kubuntu is beautiful? It is using KDE, which you can use on other distros. So if that’s the case, then all distros using KDE is beautiful, don’t you think?
Be more specific.
Downloaded the iso 3 times from different repositories and tried to run it on 4 different pc’s and laptops and as the others have mentioned it hasn’t worked on either, getting the same error about processes respawning too fast.
I keep on coming back and wanting to try (K)ubuntu and every time I have to ask myself what all the hype is about. Other distros have achieved much more with much less money and development teams behind them. If you ever get to look at PCLinuxOS you won’t go back to (K)ubuntu.
“If you ever get to look at PCLinuxOS you won’t go back to (K)ubuntu.”
You could’ve just simplified your post by writing:
Blah, blah, blah, distro A,B,C is better.
BORING!
“You could’ve just simplified your post by writing:
Blah, blah, blah, distro A,B,C is better.
BORING!”
If this Kubuntu LiveCD would have at least worked on even just one of the systems, I wouldn’t have posted anything and just reformated the CD if I didn’t like it.
I was agreeing with the previous posters that this LiveCD isn’t working at all on many systems, to hopefully spare other people the time of downloading it and giving them an alternative distribution which they might not even know about.
The “Boring” fact is that you didn’t offer us a real, working solution on how to get this LiveCD to work so we could truefully compare it to other offerings.
“If this Kubuntu LiveCD would have at least worked on even just one of the systems, I wouldn’t have posted anything and just reformated the CD if I didn’t like it.”
Reformated the CD? If you are using rewriteable CDs that could very well be your problem. I was using CDRWs for trying various distros, and most of the time it was OK. Then I had a new version of PCLinuxOS that would just not load. MD5sums were fine so I burned a regular CD and it worked perfectly. Now I never use CDRWs and have had not further problems.
“Reformated the CD? If you are using rewriteable CDs that could very well be your problem. I was using CDRWs for trying various distros, and most of the time it was OK. Then I had a new version of PCLinuxOS that would just not load. MD5sums were fine so I burned a regular CD and it worked perfectly. Now I never use CDRWs and have had not further problems.”
Yup, as this is the first time I have had such troubles with any LiveCD I figured after all this I would try with a CD-R, and with MD5sums ok it acted exactly the same as for many other people. So this CD-R is now in the trash and I’ll be waiting for a new version of (K)ubuntu to have another look.
next time just use a MD5sum check, instead of download over and over again…
“next time just use a MD5sum check, instead of download over and over again…”
MD5sum checks up ok on all downloads. Still no go on any PC/Laptop
And I thought I was the only person who couldn’t get the LiveCD to work…
FYI…this was my first attempt at Linux, and as you can see, it didn’t go so well.
Please don’t let this put you off. I am relatively new to Linux (12 – 18 months which I think is still new! That tells you something either about Linux or me?) and this is the first time I have struck a serious problem with either Ubuntu or Kubuntu.
My desktop PC dual boots with Windows XP Home and Ubuntu 5.04. I use two hard drives and find it works very well. Only real problem is that Ubuntu (and every other Linux I have tried) won’t print to my Canon LBP-1210 laser printer (get another printer I can hear the geeks say!).
I try each new version of Knoppix as well but find it ‘hard work’ compared with Ubuntu.
Hope that helps.
Regards,
Peter
Tried on several new HP/Compaq nc8000 laptops, some with Centrino and others with Pentium M. Freezes after “check battery status”. Tried on HP dc7100 and get respawning too fast. Tried on HP EVO d530 and get kernal panic. Tried on Proliant ML350 server with PIII 933 and also get respawning too fast problem. ISO checks out fine. Going to try on older Deskpro ENS 1Ghz and PIII 450 next week. Linux noob here so don’t know what else to try. Presently running XP Pro and latest Ubuntu on this nc8000 laptop with no problems.
Same here. 🙁 And this is on a desktop PC. I don’t know what happened, but like anonymous said, the install just freezes after check battery status. I waited 5 minutes, then tried ctrl-alt-del… it said KDM was “starting” but then that exited by itself and my PC rebooted. I really wish there was something I could do to fix this problem…
Their live CD’s don’t work most of the time and neither do their install CD’s.
Instead of rushing to get stuff out every six months, why don’t they make stuff that actually works most of the time!?
This morning I tried to install kubuntu as well with the same respawn problem. Last night I loaded the livecd from Kanotix. Wow, it’s really cool! So far here’s my ratings of the best distros.
1. Simply MEPIS 3.3.1-1 because it simply works!
If you have over 128 MB ram–your in!
2. CentOS 4.1 for all servers and yes laptops as well!
3. Kanotix-for all the new stuff OO and Thunderbird and games. The Klik utility is as good or better than Synaptic for downloads. I just installed over the internet–anything I wanted. They had hundreds of games as well!
So far, Ubuntu is okay if you like Gnome. But I’ll take CentOS over Ubuntu any day of the week for serious business apps. Kubuntu, unfortunately, is a no show and I’m 15 pennies poorer and hour and a half behind.
Just a quick follow-up! Tried Kanotix on the same computer at work and it ran without a flaw from livecd. Kanotic is a Debian and Kde 3.4.2 distro with the new Open Office! I am going to install it now and I’ll let you know what happens!
A couple of links for installing kanotix:
http://www.virtualsky.net/daves/2005-01.htm
http://www.virtualsky.net/daves/2005-02.htm