[Cialug] Ubuntu release & sour grapes blogging

[David Champion]

Really the main "downside" I've seen to KDE 4.x is the "no icons on the 
desktop" thing, which you can turn off somewhere. It really hasn't 
bothered me that much - you can just drop a desktop folder widget on 
your desktop and have icons there if that's what you want.

I've read a couple of review where the author was just vehemently 
against KDE 4.x... not sure what their beef is, some people just don't 
like change. Most distros will allow you to choose to run KDE 3.x if 
you'd like (or Gnome, or whatever). I think if a couple of old timers 
like Tim and I can handle it, then most users should be OK with it. 
Maybe we should wait and see what Bryan, Morris and Ralph have to say on 
KDE 4. ;)

-dc

Tim Wilson wrote:
> I just upgraded my KUbuntu on my VM at work.  Pretty sleek.  It uses 
> KDE 4.1.  It's going to take some getting used to, but I think I'll 
> like it.  If not, I'm sure I can customize it to be like good ol' KDE3.
>
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Chris Louden <chris at chrislouden.com 
> <mailto:chris at chrislouden.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:06 AM, David Champion
>     <dchampion at visionary.com <mailto:dchampion at visionary.com>> wrote:
>     > Anyone running the latest Ubuntu release from yesterday? I
>     haven't grabbed
>     > it yet but probably will give it a look this weekend to try it
>     out... even
>     > though I'll stick with Mandriva 2009 for my main systems.
>
>     I have been running 8.10 64bit since Alpha 6 and on through the BETA
>     releases. Running it on a Lenovo T61 which is my primary PC. I
>     downloaded the .ISOs last night of the formal release and will be
>     doing a clean install of the 32 bit this weekend. I prefer the 64 so
>     that I fully use the hardware to its abilities but there are issues
>     with several plug-ins like Flash where it is not always stable. I
>     haven't used a 32bit distro in over 2 years so i like to see how
>     stable it can be. If Its worth it I'll keep it otherwise I will do a
>     clean install of the 64bit from the final release in a few weeks.
>
>     I'm a bit biased as I prefer Debian based to anything .rpm based.
>     However I am really happy with it.
>
>     >
>     > I ran across this blog entry a couple of days ago while googling for
>     > something else. I would take what he says with a big grain of
>     salt... and I
>     > understand how someone who's trying to sell a Linux distro might
>     be a little
>     > frustrated with Ubuntu. In related news, Shuttleworth announced
>     that he
>     > thinks Ubuntu will become profitable in 2 or 3 years, and that
>     he's willing
>     > to keep supporting it with his own money until then.
>     >
>
>     I really appreciate what he is doing. I think the Ubuntu community at
>     large does as well.
>
>     > http://www.happyassassin.net/2008/10/28/why-i-dont-like-canonical/
>     >
>     > My personal take on it is that monoculture isn't good, and while
>     Ubuntu
>     > isn't there yet, they have certainly become what RedHat was a
>     few years ago
>     > - just about the de-facto standard version of Linux, at least
>     for desktop
>     > Linux. I think the author of the blog entry above isn't
>     completely fair - I
>     > understand that Ubuntu does contribute some back to the
>     community, and they
>     > have done a huge amount of Linux advocacy.
>     >
>     > I don't like Ubuntu because it used Gnome by default, but that's
>     pretty easy
>     > to fix by putting a "K" in front of it and downloading Kubuntu.
>     I see on
>     > Distrowatch.com that Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, UbuntuStudio, and
>     others are
>     > available too.
>     >
>     > -dc
>     >
>     >
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