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A little while ago I moved over from Mandriva to Kubuntu Edgy. In many ways kubuntu is very different from all the RedHat style distros I have used before (Suse, Mandrake/Mandriva). Luckily I have had great support from the user group, much appreciated. Some of the defaults that surprised me include - The numlock key was not turned on at log on. I had to find out how to change this. The panel at the bottom of the screen could not be hidden, which is how I normally work. It was easy to sort out, but I would have expected the panel-hiding buttons to be there as the default. Once I learned about the repositories I found that I had to do some work to include two of them. Again I would have expected all of them to be available from installation. There was not icon at all on the desktop. OK it was easy to add them except that I have not yet found out how to include an icon for the Home folder. All my previous distros have automatically included that. It took me some time for find out that I cannot open up a terminal screen directly from Konqueror. I have been used to moving around the various folders in Konqueror and then using ctrl-T to go to a terminal screen which would be in the same folder. My home folder was as expected but when I moved up to the root folder I could not see any files at all. This was sorted out thanks to help from the group, but not how I would have expected it to be from installation. To end for now with something that really impressed me - Before installing kubuntu I made some space on my disk by reducing the size of my /home partition using diskdrake in Mandriva. This left me about 110 Gb of empty space. Normally when installing a distro I have had only two choices re partitioning the hard disk. Either remove everything on the disk and finish up with just the new distro. Or do my own partitioning of the disk. Edgy gave me a third choice, use any empty space on the disk. Great. I chose that and the installer did the rest. It found Mandriva and left it there for me. I ended up with a dual boot system by which I can choose to run either Mandriva or Kubuntu. Brilliant. These are all personal comments, no complaints intended. I just wondered if any group members would be interested. If not, then sorry for wasting everyone's time Regards Neil Winchurst -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html