On Saturday 30 June 2012 00:35:28 Timothy Pearson wrote: > > Hi folks > > > > Firstly I'd like to thank everyone who replied to my email. > > > > I've decided to document my experience with trinity in case developers are > > saying to themselves - we've created the best DE ever and few are > > useing it - don't they know how good it is? > > > > Hopefully this reply will help improve the interaction between the > > developers and the end users because without some improvement this fork > > will go > > the same way as most of the others - into a back water. > <snip> > > Thank you for your detailed input! I apologise for not pointing directly > to Slavek's packages ( > https://quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/~slavek-banko/+archive/axis for > the record ); it was late at night and I didn't have the link handy at the > time. > > As you probably found out, the last LiveCD was released a while ago on a > somewhat unstable Ubuntu version (non-LTS). This is being worked on; in > fact I am only waiting on LibreOffice 3.6 to be released before I should > be able to generate a new (less buggy) LiveCD with TDE installed. > > The information on kgtk is helpful. This package will likely be removed > from the installation metapackages in the future ( > http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=1078 ). > > One of the most frustrating things about our current 3.5.13 release is the > persistent sudo problem. This has been fixed for R14.0, but the fix > relies on new technology in Ubuntu that is not present in the oldest > supported Ubuntu releases for TDE 3.5.13. There are other problems with > 3.5.13 that cannot really be fixed with an SRU, which is the primary > reason I (and many other developers here) have been concentrating on R14 > and getting it out the door as quickly as possible without sacrificing > quality. > > Tim > Hi Tim The one thing I realise is that to progress I really do need to bypass ubuntu and consider installing Debian directly and things should be more stable thereafter - after the learning curve. Though, I'll also watch out for the next live CD. I'll also try some of the other suggestions. I look forward to using Trinity soon....ish !! Thanks Thanks to everyone else who gave advice. Lou