On Friday, January 25, 2013 08:11:48 Rob Owens wrote: > On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 10:05:00AM -0500, Mike McGinn wrote: > > I have a Dell Inspiron 1545 laptop with 4G of RAM and have been a 'buntu > > user since release 7.04. With each release of the new OS from Kubuntu I > > have been less and less happy with the so called "quality" and I am > > planning a move to Debian. As a Kontact user the problems reported with > > the new versions of that particular package are dictating the move to > > Squeeze. (I subscribe to both the kde-pim users and developers mail > > lists.) > > > > I have been experimenting with an installation in a virtual machine and I > > am getting ready to make the jump. I am happy with what I have > > experienced in my VM and I just want to know if there are any pitfalls I > > have not foreseen. My system is backed up every night, so I am not > > worried about losing anything. > > Squeeze is fairly old at this point, and will be replaced shortly (a few > months, maybe?) with Wheezy. Squeeze will still be supported for a year > after that -- or have they committed to two years now? But my point is > that you might want to consider Wheezy. Wheezy is currently the > "testing" distribution, but will be released as "stable" as soon as it's > ready. > > If you run into any hardware compatibility issues with the stable > release, you can always look into getting a newer kernel from the > backports repository: > deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports/ squeeze-backports main > > -Rob
Hi Rob, Thanks for the information on Wheezy. My main concern now with KDE is avoiding the mess that is going on with the kde-pim, I have been using that for years and have a few gig of email stored in it. Right now I want to use the older version. I did some research last night (google) and found no incompatibilities with my laptop. The new version of kde-pim has been a mess for some time now and from the traffic on the developers and users list there is no end in sight. I will move to Wheezy when it becomes stable and if it has a usable kde-pim. I do have several servers at work that I am going to be moving from Ubuntu server to Debian also. -- Mike McGinn KD2CNU Ex Uno Plurima No electrons were harmed in sending this message, some were inconvenienced. ** Registered Linux User 377849 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201301250924.12054.mikemcg...@mcginnweb.net
