jaunty the worst ever
Karl F. Larsen
klarsen1 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 11 13:01:41 UTC 2009
anthony baldwin wrote:
> Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y) wrote:
>> On 05/18/2009 01:28 AM, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
>>>> So, since Kubuntu seems to be getting incrementally worse instead of improving
>>>> it is time to ignore all the hype and start looking for a distro where they
>>>> actually do testing before release.
>>>> Jaunty Jackalope my Irish Ass! More like Jaunty Jackass.
>>> You are on the Ubuntu mainling list, which is based on Gnome,
>> But it's also a central point of "support" for Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Kubuntu,...
>> Am I wrong?
>>
>>
>
> I would say YES to that, and also remind you (et al.), that Ubuntu is
> the distribution, which includes, at the core,
> a gnu/linux kernel and basic tools, packaging system, etc.,
> and, on the surface, a) an excellent community, and b) literally 1000s
> of applications, and that the DE or WM you CHOOSE to use is just one of
> those applications, and that you have many, many choices for a DE or WM,
> and that to judge the entire distribution on your experience with one of
> those DE or WMs is ludicrous.
> Don't like KDE (me neither)?
> Try one of these (all available from repos):
>
> gnome
> xfce
> fluxbox
> openbox
> ion3
> dwm
> awm
> lxde
> xmonad
> enlightenment
> jwm
> icewm
> ...
>
> Choice!
> Ah, the beauty of Free Software...
>
> /tony
Just a reminder of what was said when Jaunty was new.
73 Karl
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