On Saturday 16 June 2012 20:46:06 Julius Schwartzenberg wrote:
> Lou Gogan wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Because I have bad experiences with non-LTS Ubuntu versions, I would
> recommend using Kubuntu Lucid. You can download an ISO with
> Lucid+Trinity as well, but the Trinity version is not up to date
> (although it works fine).
> The standard kernel is old, but newer kernels have been backported to
> Lucid and you can install them through the repositories.
> 
> Basically Kubuntu Lucid with Trinity and a backported kernel is what I
> tend to set up now.
> 
> Ubuntu Precise is the next LTS, but it still has many bugs and Trinity
> doesn't work that great on it (you can hack up the Oneiric release to
> install or use the nightlies, but neither are problem free). Hopefully
> with the next Trinity release and more bugfixing by the Ubuntu team, it
> will be able to supersede Lucid.
> 
> Best regards,
> Julius
> 

I'll try out xubuntu 11.10 iso as I already have it but will download the ubuntu 
11.10 and kubuntu 10.04 (lts) to see which are the most stable on my sys. (I 
found the kubuntu 8.04 as stable as one could want - it's just that it's 
getting OLD, like myself !).

Thanks

Lou