Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Nathan Bahn]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 1:19 AM, Doug <dmcgarrett at optonline.net> wrote:

> 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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So I'm not the only one who has extreme difficulty getting *any* sound out
of openSUSE 11.3.....  And here I thought it was just me!

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