ubuntu vs kubuntu

Jason Voegele jason at jvoegele.com
Tue Jul 26 13:02:18 UTC 2005


On Thu, July 21, 2005 10:12 pm, george rogers said:
> i prefer Ubuntu over Kubuntu because for 3 resons
> 1 the administration utilities like adding a user in Kubuntu you see all
> these Damon users but and finding human users is like finding a needle
> in a haystack but in ubuntu you see only the human users

Click "Settings > Hide System Users/Groups" and then it shows the same set
of users that the Gnome user manager does.

> 2 faster faster faster

Hrmmm...in some ways, but not in others.  Konqueror loads much faster than
Firefox, for instance.

> 3 Firefox looks so much better in Ubuntu than Kubuntu because Firefox is
> a gtk app. wich means its not built with proprietary technology like
> KDE. is is the qt license OSI certified?

Install the package gtk2-engines-gtk-qt and Firefox (and all other Gtk
apps) will suddenly look just like your KDE apps. :-)

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Jason Voegele
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remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed
or recombined. But it's smaller than we think."
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