Hi Mike! Am Donnerstag, 24. Januar 2013 schrieb Mike McGinn: > 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.
As I am using KDE SC and KDEPIM on Debian Sid here some recommendations from me: 1) Use Wheezy. As I wrote it still has KDEPIM 1 as of KDE SC 4.4.11 which means that it will have it during its complete lifetime according to the Debian stable policy. I am writing from such a KDEPIM 1 :). In fact its the only KDEPIM available officially as of today. 2) I strongly recommend you to subscribe and follow debian-kde mailing list. Its a low volume, high signal to noise ratio mailing list where Debian kde users are subscribed to, also experienced ones!, as well as Debian Qt/KDE maintainers and some KDE upstream developers. There has been a discussion about KDEPIM 2 in KDE SC 4.10 recently for example. 3) You can find some KDE SC install instructions on the website of the Debian Qt/KDE maintainers: http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/ These give an overview over the packaging structure. 4) If after a while you feel adventurous or want to try possible newer versions, read: http://qt-kde.debian.net/ Currently there are KDE SC 4.9.5 base packages available there which work quite nicely. Stay away from them for now tough, in case you use KDEPIM with mutiple identifies with different sent folders as that is broken currently. And really subscribe debian-kde mailing list if you intend to use packages from there. Hope this increases the signal to noise ratio in that thread again a bit. Ciao, -- Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de GPG: 03B0 0D6C 0040 0710 4AFA B82F 991B EAAC A599 84C7 -- 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/201301271457.40091.mar...@lichtvoll.de
