[ubuntu-us-ut] Airing of grievances (was Meerkat Ditching 'aptitude')

[Aaron Toponce]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:40:37AM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> Mark Shuttleworth has been making Ubuntu a Mac OS X competitor since day
> one, and he has been very vocal about it. In his mind's eye, if
> GNU/Linux is to compete with the Big Dogs on the desktop, it needs to
> act like one. Because GNOME was primarily inspired by Mac OS Classic (9
> and earlier), it makes sense to design it further to behave like it. If
> this bothers you, KDE was designed to be a Windows killer, so that might
> be more your route to take.
> 
> BUt, the buttons moving to the left, the indicators, the "Me Menu", the
> task bar, the themes, everything under GNOME from Canonical is designed
> to compete directly with OS X, not Windows. While it's not my
> preferrence, they've done more for the look and feel of a desktop than
> any other vendor.

More Mac-like functionality finding its way into Evolution by default
for 10.10:

http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2010-09-19-007-35-NW-UB

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