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Kubuntu Netbook Edition ten.04 evaluation
For people that tend not to know, Kubuntu Netbook Edition created it for the best of our listing of “Best Netbook Linux Distro” and why not, it has an innovative tactic of how an operating system really should be custom-made for a netbook, to create lives less difficult for consumers like you and me.
Now, just before I move forward, let me clarify few things – this assessment is completed trying to keep in brain how a casual netbook person would use Kubuntu. Confident, you are able to set up Gnome atmosphere as opposed to KDE and make it appear precisely like a standard Ubuntu, but that isn't we are going to cover right here.
Installation
The set up is dead straightforward, just like Ubuntu. For those who have put in any Linux OS recently, you ought to not have any dilemma setting up Kubuntu Netbook Edition. I installed it utilizing UnetBootin which permits one to generate a bootable USB generate.
Out with the box,Office 2010 Key, every thing labored, from Ethernet to Wireless LAN – everything! This is excellent as most of the netbook consumers do not like wandering more than Ubuntu/Kubuntu community forums trying anything to perform. Even the operate keys worked.
Looks
The Kubuntu Netbook Edition utilizes KDE desktop rather than Gnome. After using the Gnome desktop for nearly like 3 years, KDE is often a breath of fresh air. The Netbook Edition can make things considerably better, due to smart utilization of display screen actual estate. Netbooks generally activity a resolution of 1024×600 pixels, thus an application ought to make full use with the pixels available. In other words, it is precisely what a geek ordered.
For the techies, the Kubuntu uses Plasma Netbook Shell and it looks a lot more futuristic than the Ubuntu,Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, at least to me and my team. I absolutely love the animations and how the windows behave. Excellent – Very. But, here can be a word of caution – as you would have already noticed from the screenshots,Windows 7 Ultimate Key, it looks quite a lot different from the existing netbook distros, chiefly because all of them use Ubuntu Netbook Edition as their base. So, it will take a day or two in getting used to the KDE+Plasma Environment.
All the applications run full display screen,Windows 7 Activation, similar to Ubuntu netbook edition. However, there is a way when you want the application not to run full display screen.
The desktop is divided into three parts – prime bar, favorites panel and application panel. The best bar contains the basic buttons for shutting down, locking the display screen, clock and also contains the button for switching between running applications.
Second is the favorites panel. It is possible to add application by hovering the mouse about an icon and then clicking on the little golden star on the leading left of the icon.
While on the desktop, you either use the categories to get to your desired application or you start typing the name of application and Kubuntu will automatically start to short-list the applications as you type. It also finds your documents too – similar to spotlight search on Mac
Switching applications is done by clicking a button present on the top-right with the display, which shows you the numbers of applications that are currently running. Clicking it shows all the running applications with their current screenshots.
Alternatively, you can use alt+tab combo, which gives you an iTunes’ cover flow like interface to switch between apps. Very cool!
Boot Up time
Boot-up time is extremely important for mobile devices like netbooks since nobody wants to wait for 2-3 minutes for an OS to complete its boot. Everybody wants to go online as-fast-as possible. Kubuntu Netbook Edition (referred to as KNE from this point onwards) does just that.
Having the netbook set to auto-login, from grub to desktop took 50 seconds and shut down time was 6 seconds. So, the boot-up times are fairly impressive.
Applications
Office:
·OpenOffice Word Processor
·Openoffice Presentation
·OpenOffice Spreadsheet
·OpenOffice Drawing
·Okular
·KtimeTracker
·Korganizer
·Kontact
·KaddressBook
Education
·Kanagram: Letter order game
·Ktouch
·Parley: Vocabulary Trailer
Games
·Kmahjongg
·Krerversi
·Lsat
·Ksudoku
·Kmines
·Kdiamond
·Kpatience
Graphics
·Ksnapshot
·Gwenview: Image Viewer
·OpenOffice Drawing
·Okular: Document Viewer
Internet
·Mozilla Network Installar (more on that later)
·Network Connections
·Konqueror
·Ktorrent
·Kmail
·Kbluetooth
·KPPP
·Quassel IRC: IRC Client
·KRDC: Desktop Terminal
·Kopete: Instant Messenger
·Krfb: Internet Sharing
·Blogilo: Blogging Client
·Akregator: RSS reader
·KnetworkManager
·Browser Identification
·Windows Share
Multimedia
·Kmix: Sound Mixer
·Dragon Player: Video Player
·Amarok: Audio Player
It just kept saying that the requested packages are already installed and the installation of Firefox never actually happened. But,Windows 7, we had no problems with the Konqueror, which is the default web-browser for Kubuntu.
Suggestions?
Well, I do feel that the close button should always be accessible in an application. It really should not be hidden in the top-bar which hides itself every time to give you more pixels to work with. Secondly. Plasma Surroundings could be a bit faster.
Firefox installation just fails. Go for the Chrome browser from Google or the Opera. It is magical on the Kubuntu (actually on any Linux distro out there).
Flash player, much like other Canonical distributions, does not come pre-installed. Same can be said about MP3 and other video codecs. There is an easy solution to this – just set up VLC or Audacious. :)

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