Ubuntu with Unity versus Kubuntu with KDE

[Doug]

On 03/10/2011 08:08 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:BC
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>> I suppose that I'll get flamed for mentioning another distro here, 
>> but the implementation of KDE 4.4.x or 4.5.x (I'm not sure what we 
>> have today)
>> on PCLINUXOS is very nice, not like Kubuntu, which I also looked at 
>> very briefly 8 or 9 months ago. That version of Kubuntu made me puke.
>> You should remember that the purveyors of Ubuntu/Kubuntu have a 
>> philosophical agenda of making the product look as little like MS 
>> Windows
>> as they possibly can, whether it's usable or not. (That's not just my 
>> opinion: it has been mentioned before in this list a number of times.)
>> I've been running PCLOS since about last June, and just got a fairly 
>> extensive upgrade a week or so ago. (It's a rolling distro.) Nothing 
>> major
>> seems to have changed. If you're unhappy here, take a look at that.
>
> Thanks for this.
>
> I'm very happy with Ubuntu - it's just that all the talk about Unity 
> has me a bit concerned (although the story goes that the "classic" 
> Gnome will still be available (but for how long?).
>
> Anyway, I went to have a look at PCLinux and....... not totally 
> impressed mainly because the latest release was last December and it 
> seems to be using a kernel version which has long been progressed to 
> x.36.x and not the x.33. PCLOS is using.
>
> (To add to all this, my ISP seems to be having some hassles as my 
> download speed has dropped to just over dial-up speed and I wasn't 
> prepared to download the ~700MB of PCLOS at this speed :-( . I'll see 
> what happens after next Sunday when the ISP has put thru some upgrades 
> at my local exchange.)
>
> BC PCLIn
>
I just checked the KDE version for my updated PCLOS:****Platform version 
4.6.1 (4.6.1)
And I checked  uname -a for this latest PCLOS: 2.6.33.7-pclos6.bfs #1 
SMP PREEMPT Thu Oct 21 22:42:28 CDT 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

For whatever it's worth, this KDE version as implemented here seems to 
work about the same as KDE 4.4.5, which I originally had.  You're right
about the kernel version.  I don't know what difference this would make 
to anybody.  What do they do to the kernel to "improve" it?  And
_does_ it?

--doug

Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley

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