Well I couldn't leave my hands off the new Kubuntu release. Even so it was not too long ago that I crashed my so much loved desktop environment with a similar attempt. I struggled with the urge to upgrade... but finally started to the process. What can I say. This time everything went smooth as it should be. And let me tell you. The Kubuntu and KDE guys made so much progress. I'm not sure what it is, but a lot of things I missed from KDE 3.5.xx are now back again. E.g. that I can now again reduce the back-light level when I run my notebook without power supply attached. Then I finally are able to resize my desktop to take advantage of my office LCD without the need to logoff/on. The whole thing seems to finally come tohether. Also I was looking for a grub editor, which is now also part of the system settings panel.
Lot of other applications received an update. One is the nVidia driver which is now 177 and may be the cause of some of my KDE4 problems disappearing... then I use kMyMoney for account management and this Kubuntu finally has a decent version of it available.
The only thing I recognized was that a lot of kde4 packages which I had installed next to my KDE 3.5 desktop do not seem to be available anymore... but that may be my own mistake, by not reading the upgrade instructions. Maybe I should have removed those packages prior to the upgrade? But that is all I have to complain about at the moment. I really like this Kubuntu version and the KDE desktop is quickly getting to the point where I left KDE 3.5.12.
Thanks to all the people making this release happen.
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