If you have a screen like 1024×768 or smaller, if your network interface, whereas properly configured, does not get enable (when you select enable interface, it goes to enable and go back to disable shortly after), then you might be interested by this article.

In addition, this article will explain how to update your Kubuntu/Ubuntu installation, even though it is not possible to have the network up and running when using the Network Settings window.
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After installing Kubuntu, I had this ugly menu to select which OS I wanted to boot.

I wanted to modify three things: the default menu entry ; the time before the default menu entry is automatically chosen ; having a nice background image (splashimage).

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