[Cialug] Ubuntu release & sour grapes blogging

[Tim Wilson]

Hey, he called me old! :)

I did notice one thing, but it is probably more of a problem with it running
in a VM.  I tried to turn on the "effects", and when I clicked apply, it
crashed KDE.  Well, crash isn't quite right, it darkened it.  To a black
screen.  It wasn't a BSOD (black screen of death), but it did freak me out.
Of course, hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace took care of that, then I just had to
move the .kde folder out of the way and I was back to normal.

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 5:28 PM, David Champion <dchampion at visionary.com>wrote:

>  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>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 8:06 AM, David Champion <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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