Why not try Ultimate Edition of Ubuntu...

[Liam Proven]

On 29 October 2011 12:53, Bruce Pieterse <octoquadza at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri 28 Oct 2011 01:07:18 SAST, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> On 27 October 2011 21:40, Bruce Pieterse<octoquadza at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu 27 Oct 2011 04:03:57 SAST, NoOp wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 10/26/2011 06:43 AM, Amedee Van Gasse wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, October 26, 2011 06:31, Sandy Harris wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:32 AM, Cybe R. Wizard
>>>>>> <cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>    wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You (we all) need to stop focusing so much on Unity and realize that
>>>>>>> Ubuntu (still a fine distro even though they've done some
>>>>>>> remarkably..
>>>>>>> unlikely things) has other options  There's KDE (spit, spit), XFCE4
>>>>>>> and
>>>>>>> LXDE all of which have not followed in the Unity debacle.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why on Earth isn't there a Gubunutu with the gnome desktop?
>>>>>
>>>>> All you need to do, is open an console and hammer the following
>>>>> keystrokes
>>>>> on your keyboard:
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt-get install gnome-shell
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Log out, choose Gnome, log in, voila!
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Viola? Tell us how you manage your icons on those panels.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> It seems we have also forgotten about elementaryOS -
>>> http://www.elementaryos.org/
>>
>> Interesting - not met that remix before. Looks nice but the reviews
>> are very mixed.
>>
>> Either way, though, it can't stay with GNOME 2, because it's dead now.
>> The Mate desktop might be able to continue development but it's too
>> early to say for sure. Trinity - the KDE3 fork - died young, I
>> believe.
>>
>
> As far as I can remember the next version of elementaryOS will be based on
> 12.04.

That does not tell us what desktop they will use, though.

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