Ubuntu 6.10 in the news

[Derek Broughton]

Cybe R. Wizard wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 14:37:24 -0700
> Matt Zimmerman <mdz at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 
>> As far as I know, it works equally well under Kubuntu, though it is
>> not installed by default and does require that you install some
>> GTK/GNOME-ish supporting libraries, which some folks don't like to do.
> 
> I don't understand this.  Are there legitimate reasons for such a
> preference?  I don't use GNOME or KDE, being an IceWM fan,myself, but I
> have both GNOME and KDE because I like and use several programs from
> each 'protocol'.  I do end up with a lot of different libraries but with
> disc space so cheap these days...

It is, in my case, mostly disk space.  One of these days I'll pick up a
large USB drive for the stuff that doesn't absolutely need to be on my
laptop.  Decent sized drives are still not cheap for the laptop.
-- 
derek