[Novalug] KDE 4.1 rough edges (cold install of Kubuntu 8.10 on IBM T42)

[W Alan Day]

My experience with the newest KDE release has been uneven.  I have 
persevered with the usual gratuitous changes in the user interface and 
haven't completely given up.  Issues to be worked around:

- install script bug: if you boot into the desktop so you can establish 
a network connection, the install script skips the 3rd screen that 
allows for manual partitioning; the next screen would normally have the 
existing partitions but is blank.  Workaround: Install w/o network 
connection & upgrade after boot.

- tends to hang on boot if trying to establish a fixed IP address; dhcp 
works fine

- Task scheduler works ok for my user account but there doesn't seem to 
be a way to invoke it with root privilege.  If you copy a set of root 
tasks to /var/spool/cron/crontab/, kde doesn't execute them.  
Workaround: append root tasks to the /etc/crontab file.

- Slow

YMMV

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