[ubuntu-us-mi] thoughts on a Penguicon panel

[Craig Maloney]

On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 04:42 -0500, Wolfger wrote:

> OK, now imagine for a moment that Kubuntu is the mainstream distro,
> and Ubuntu is the alternative. How would you feel then about selling
> the distro with the desktop you personally dislike? :-)

Easy... I would have stuck with Fedora. :) 

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> It's that confusion that you're talking about that I wanted to try to
> reduce by coming up with some clear way to explain the differences. Of
> course, I'm not sure how to do that, exactly, so you're probably
> right.

Trust me, I'm in no means slighting those who prefer something other
than GNOME, but the default distribution, and the one that is on the
main page is GNOME. I'm not opposed to discussing KUbuntu at al
(actually, it's the first version of KDE that didn't make me want to
spit bile out of my eyesockets) but I think we should talk about it and
the other offshoots _after_ discussing the main distribution. If we're
handing out Live CDs at the event (especially ones via ShipIt), they'll
have the GNOME distribution on them by default (unless you can order
KUbuntu and XUbuntu, but I'm not an expert on this). I think we should
focus on that first, and then when the audience is hooked, show them the
other really cool things you can do with the other versions.

Again, my $.02. :)

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