Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

[Avi Greenbury]

Rashkae wrote:
> On 06/29/2011 07:24 AM, Avi Greenbury 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'.
> >
> No, actually, twas not... and even now, it's still not made it past 
> *very* experimental stage in Debian packaging.

This isn't Debian; it's hardly further along in Ubuntu, either. 

And, yeah, I meant 11.04 :) 

> While true that Gnome 3 was released in early April, that was far too 
> late for inclusion in 11.04, which would have had major software 
> versions frozen well over a month prior for bug clean-up.
 
Yeah, so 11.04 was perhaps not the time to switch to Unity - I don't
see the logic in switching to a Gnome 2.x-based Unity immediately
before porting Unity to the Gnome 3 libraries, unless the difference in
these libs isn't as great as I keep seeing suggested. Are they that
similar that the next six months will be spent fixing current bugs in
Unity, or will they mostly be spent fixing bugs incurred by switching
versions?

-- 
Avi