Ubuntu KDE

[poofyhairguy]

Henry Keultjes Wrote: 
> Anyone interested in putting an UbuntuPPC version *without* Gnome and 
> *with* KDE together for use here in the USA?
> 
> While there may be great merit to Gnome (I am not a techy so I don't 
> know, all I have seen is Novell demo's) I know there is great merit to
> 
> simplifying things for the enduser, an area where I have expertise.  If
> 
> I am going to convince people to start using Ubuntu, throwing all kinds
> 
> of possibilities at them just does not make sense.  These are people 
> that will not even have heard of KDE or Gnome and they basically don't
> 
> care.  They want something with less complexity than the WinTel they 
> have to do three or four typical things; read and send email, surf the
> 
> web, write a letter and play games.
> 
> In reality, people do not use an OS, they only use applications so for
> 
> all practical purposes, a user could not ever know what engine is under
> 
> the hood and 80% of the users probably will not care.
> 
> Are we going to address that enduser market like Linspire and Xandros 
> are attempting to do but in the true Debian spirit with a free version
> 
> of Ubuntu?
> 
> And . . . just in case, the reason for starting Gnome, the Qt license,
> 
> has long been resolved.  The total integration of KDE and Qt has some 
> inherent strengths for simplifying the end user experience and that's 
> were I believe we need to go.
> 
> We are all Linux missionaries of sorts but as long as we, as 
> missionaries,  produce only missionaries we are missing the objective
> of 
> saving the souls of all those WinTel sinners.
> 
> Henry Keultjes
> 
> 
> 
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Ummmmm. If you want Ubuntu-like distro with KDE, get Mepis!


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poofyhairguy