[mdlug] Finally finished upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10

[Brian Brodsky]

I wanted the Cinnamon desktop. KDE would be my second choice of 
desktops. The reason why I wnet with Ubuntu Gnome instead of Kubuntu is 
I did not see bloating the computer with the full KDE desktop when I 
would be running Cinnamon. If I was to go to a lightweight desktop I 
prefer LXDE over Xfce. So I would probably install Lubuntu. No matter 
what flavor I am sure that the pan issue exists in them all.

Brian

On 10/28/2013 08:54 AM, Ingles, Raymond wrote:
> I just stick with Xubuntu lately. Doesn't get in my way and has been stable so far...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org [mailto:mdlug-bounces at mdlug.org] On Behalf Of Brian Brodsky
> Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 2:54 PM
> To: MDLUG's Main discussion list; Linux SIG (Special Interest Group)
> Subject: [mdlug] Finally finished upgrading to Ubuntu 13.10
>
> Well finally reloaded my desktop which was running Linux Mint 14 to Ubuntu 13.10. I ran into several obstacles.
>
> All of the information below is with 64bit distributions.
>
> First I tried installing Ubuntu 13.10 and the Cinnamon that was in the standard repository and when I went to login using Cinnamon all I got was a mouse pointer.
>
> I then uninstalled Cinnamon added the Cinnamon ppa repository and installed Cinnamon 2.0 (I knew this would trash Unity but was willing to live with that). This ran for a couple days but then I could not log in with anything but gnome fall back.
>
> My final attempt which seems to be working now is I download Ubuntu Gnome 13.10, wiped out Ubuntu and installed Ubuntu Gnome 13.10. I again attempted to use the standard repository Cinnamon and got the same results as Ubuntu. I then uninstalled Cinnamon added the Cinnamon ppa repository and installed Cinnamon 2.0. In Ubuntu 13.10 I also ran into an issue with pan. It does not seem to allow SSL connections like Mint
> 14 (based on 12.10) did. I googled it seems this issue appeared in Ubuntu 13.04 and still is not fixed. My options as I saw them was to compile from source or use stunnel4. I chose the stunnel4 option. I am hoping Ubuntu finally fixes this.
>
> On my laptop I was running Ubuntu 13.04 which ran Cinnamon fine. That machine also had Unity, KDE, XFCE and LXDE desktops installed. I did a distribution upgrade which worked. However the Cinnamon just gives me a black screen and mouse pointer like my desktop did with the standard Ubuntu repository install. I did not install ppa on this one (decided I did not want to hose Unity or my laptop). I am currently using KDE desktop since Cinnamon will not work.
>
> Brian
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