Natty 11.04 - nearly like 10.10!

Basil Chupin blchupin at iinet.net.au
Thu Jun 23 05:33:02 UTC 2011


On 23/06/11 05:27, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 18:03 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> [1] You might not like Unity, but should you not give your customers
>> their own choice? I mean, I like Unity just fine, myself,&  I'm a
>> Linux power-user, on Ubuntu since the first release, a Linux user
>> since before KDE 1.0&  a Unix user for about 23yr.
> I'm the BOFH and they're merely migrated MS Windows users. Choice? No.
> It's a "working system that is simple" that they get. End of story. I'm
> not going to rant on about anything else, being an IT consultant since
> 1986.
>
>> [2] You *do* realise that GNOME 2 is end-of-life&  is disappearing
>> from Ubuntu as of the next version? By 12.04 you won't have the choice
>> of removing Unity and "going back" to GNOME 2 - it will be gone
>> forever.
> (Didn't realise I sound *that* stupid)
>
> Gnome3 will be installed and stripped/ripped of GnomeShell, Unity will
> *NOT* be used or even considered for clients. At least it's possible to
> tweak Gnome3 to act nearly like Gnome2. This gives me a long term
> solution - until at least 2016.

BTW, if you want to have a few more "goodies" when running GNOME 3 then 
have a look here:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet


I didn't know about this until late last night.

BC

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