On Saturday 16 June 2012 20:38:08 Calvin Morrison wrote: > On 16 June 2012 15:01, Lou Gogan <lou@...> wrote: > > Greetings > > > > Believe it or not I've only come across a reference to trinity in the last week or so when checking out porteus usb-stick linux. > > It really cheered me up that kde3 (as tde) is still not only alive but seemingly very healthy! > > > > At present I am still using kubuntu 8.04 for obvious reasons but would be delighted to install a more up-to-date os and tde > > on another partition on my hard drive. > > > > I have already downloaded kubuntu 12.04 (always in the hope, in vain, that it had somehow become more kde3 than kde4!) > > but I don't see any mention of (k)ubuntu 12.04 in the installation instruction page, so I presume I should use a release from > > last year. Also I notice that ubuntu 11.10 is mentioned rather than kubuntu 11.10. Is it recommended that I use ubuntu 11.10 > > rather than kubuntu 11.10 in case of conflicts? Or does it matter at all? I also have an iso of xubuntu 11.10 - would that be > > suitable? > > > > Any advice would be welcomed. > > > > Thanks > > > > Lou > > First of all, welcome to the Trinity mailing list :-) > > I am using Ubuntu 11.10 and it works very well. 12.04 does not yet > have stable Trinity packages. I originally installed the regular > ubuntu 11.10 and installed trinity packages on top of it. There > shouldn't be any conflicts with KDE4, but it's annoying to have it > wasting space on my system - so I installed the regular Ubuntu, and > then uninstalled Unity. Xubuntu 11.10 would be suitable. > > Calvin > I'll try out the xubuntu 11.10 iso I already have. Thanks Lou