Kubuntu LiveCD review

Phil at PhilipandJenny.com did a review of the Kubuntu LiveCD. Considering the raves I’ve heard about Ubuntu and Kubuntu I was a little surprised at the outcome of his analysis, but I believe that his experience will be an invaluable guide for anyone giving this distribution consideration.

Phil runs a Sager 3760 laptop with the same finicky wireless card as me: the Intel 2200. This card has closed-source drivers although the guys at ipw2200.sourceforge.net have done their best to help us out. The drivers for this card have a habit of crashing systems, causing system hangups, and generally providing a wireless internet connection. Phil discusses how Kubuntu handles this card.

It was a little slow starting, compared to Knoppix or Slax. But that’s a trait of Live CDs, and I don’t really care. I like KDE 3.4! It has nice new popup tooltips on the kicker. They animate into view, but it is tasteful, not too flashy. The Trash icon has been moved from the desktop to the kicker, and good riddance.

Check out his article to read more.