Interesting read about the future of Ubuntu

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:35 -0600, Billie Walsh wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 08:27 AM, Boggess Rod wrote:
> >> Kubuntu is a very poor effort at sticking KDE on Ubuntu - Ubuntu's core
> >> >effort is very much in Gnome.
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Avi
> > As I am becoming painfully aware as I attempt to learn this desktop on
> > my newly formatted hard drive. Grr. There's nothing more frustrating
> > than knowing exactly where everything is, only to discover that nothing
> > works the way it's supposed to.
> 
> It sounds to me like your moving from KDE 3.x to KDE 4.x.
> 
> > First round of additional installations and the package kit dies a
> > painful death. Hmmm. Did you know that you can't reinstall or verify
> > install on the GUI package kit? I don't know whether this is possible on
> > GNOME, either, but only because IT NEVER CRASHED!
> 
> First thing to do, as recommended many time on this list, is to install 
> Synaptic for a package manager. Kpackagekit is a joke by the developers. 
> Not a good one though.

I concur with your assessment! :) Ric

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