Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Avi Greenbury]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On 29 June 2011 12:24, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> > So Unity is switching to the Gnome 3 libraries? That'd make *some*
> > sense, but if that was always the plan I'd expect it to have
> > happened before Unity went on general release.
> >
> > Gnome 3 was, when 10.04 was released, the 'current release of
> > gnome'.
> >
> 
> I think you mean 11.04.
> 
> GNOME 3 came out on 6th April, and 11.04 released on 28th April. Not a
> lot of time, especially when Ubuntu was developing a new UI to go on
> top of GNOME during that cycle.
> 
> Al.

Aha, yes! 11.04, and I didn't spot that in the reply I just sent
either :(

Yeah, I know it's not a lot of time at all, and I don't expect a whole
new UI to be built in that fortnight. 
But were the plan to be for Unity to be "kept in line with the current
release of gnome, whatever that happens to be", it seems daft to plan
release it two weeks after Gnome changes completely. It's not like we
didn't know it was coming.

I'd inferred from various mumblings that Unity was, essentially, taking
the Gnome 2 libs its based on and running with them, not intending to
have switched to the Gnome 3 libs by Oneiric.

-- 
Avi