Focus

Right. So, I've lost it completely. But I'm going to make another attempt with a different distro, and at the same time, upgrade my main kubuntu desktop to Feisty. I've heard (on the ubuntu podcast) that there's a problem with one of the Fiesty Herd releases that it doesn't recognize hardware. So step one is to burn the Herd 4 CD image and make sure it works. The workaround is to install a command-line only Edgy distribution, update sources to Fiesty (and dist-upgrade), and then apt-get install the Kubuntu-desktop packages.

Hopefully, I won't have to deal with that.

On the other end, I'm going to switch from the main branch of Debian to Sidux, as it seems more specifically geared towards what I want to do. It is always based on the Debian Sid, and it defaults to a KDE desktop enviornment, which is my preferred desktop.

There are a couple of things I want to play around with on that testing side of my PC, one of which a friend left me an excited voicemail about while I was at work on Saturday morning, called Songbird. I'm also thinking it might be time to test out KDE 4, and definitely taking a newer version of amaroK (1.4.5) out for a spin, as I've been using 1.4.3, from the ubuntu repositories.

Of course, now that I think about it, the new version of amaroK is likely in the Fiesty Herd 4 (I can't bring myself to call it Fiesty Fawn. I'm sorry. I just can't.) install as well.

Oh, if only the odd dream I had, that I had until the end of february to spend $2,000.00 and get reimbursed for it all by my bank were true... then I could be playing with all this stuff on a brand new laptop. ;)