Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Doug]

On 12/24/2010 12:08 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 24/12/2010 06:31, MR ZenWiz wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:06 AM, Ric Moore<wayward4now at gmail.com>   wrote:
>>> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/12/22/unity_ubuntu_the_future/
>>>
>>> Killing off X11?? :) Ric
>>>
>> I was just beginning to really like Ubuntu.  This paradigm shift is worrisome.
>>
>> Maybe Mint will taste better,
> Mint is simply a modification of Ubuntu (whichever is the latest
> release). Uses the same Canonical repos and all. At least this was the
> case when I tried (?)Mint 9.
>
> Ultimate Edition is also a mod of Ubuntu.
>
>>    or maybe I'll just stick with Maverick
>> until it goes EOL and I can look around again then....
>>
>> Anyone for CentOS 6?  :-)
> I've installed openSUSE 11.3 with the gnome desktop but their mangling
> of the gnome de - compared to Ubuntu - is pathetic. As it seems that
> they are going with Gnome 3 then I sincerely hope that they will get it
> looking like something which is put together by somebody who actually
> has the end-user in mind.
>
> BC
>
I found that MINT had undone a bunch of the craziness that Ubuntu uses,
like putting the window controls on the wrong side.  You have to get
rid of the ugly black background, and then you have something that
works and looks pretty nice, and is familiar to the average computer
user.  It's one of my 2 favorite distros.  (The other is PCLINUXOS.)  I
have nothing against Ubuntu--I had to use Ub for a school class, but it
was all in the CLI. I think MINT outdoes Ub in making proprietary programs
available--a very welcome situation, as far as I'm concerned!  I think the
folks behind Debian are nuts--they won't even let you have Firefox or
Thunderbird.  (Just this evening I read about some difficulty someone
was having with Deb's imitation T-bird.)

My last SuSE install was 10.3. I gave up because I could never get any
sound out of SuSE.   I looked at 11.x and puked.  Same for Kubuntu.
PCLOS proves that you _can_ run a KDE desktop and have a nice machine.

--doug

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