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Re: Ubuntu 6.06 may suck, but Linux rules

  • Subject: Re: Ubuntu 6.06 may suck, but Linux rules
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:45:11 +0100
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__/ [ John Bailo ] on Monday 12 June 2006 03:08 \__

> mlw wrote:
> 
>> I have been posting that (k)ubuntu nuked my machine and that I was, to say
>> the least, disappointed. I am, in fact, pissed off at (k)ubuntu, I think
>> they jumped the gun, shipped with bogus errors, and worst of all, knew the
>> degree of the failure and shipped anyway.
> 
> I just don't buy the whole Ubuntu thing.


KDE and Ubuntu 'mixtures' have always been somewhat unreliable. It was over a
year ago that a colleague of mine said KDE on top of Ubuntu (not Kubuntu)
was not as predictable and reliable as Ubuntu with GNOME, which is what many
developers are working on vigorously and testing/patching, along with the
users community.

Kubuntu used to be a somewhat (or wholly) independent project which only
emerged only later on. It needs some love from Canonical and finally it gets
it. A month or two back, Shuttleworth wore a KDE T-shirt and expressed his
plan to nurture and care for Xubuntu and Kubuntu. nUbuntu is left out of the
equation for that time being. Something tells me that Google help report and
fix Ubuntu bugs as they are dependent upon Goobuntu on their desktops
(probably GNOME, if not a mixture of DE's).

There are several more Ubuntu derivatives at the moment and I can't recall
which one began taking Ubuntu as its base code, dropping Debian in the
process (make a derivative out of the derivative of the original parent).

 
> http://www.opensuse.org
> 
> Get Real.
> 
> Get 10.1


I like SuSE as well. If you like KDE, SUSE will be better, I suspect. Until
recently, SuSE (and Novell SUSE) were KDE-based; all else were
unconventional, 'off the hook' options whereas KDE was default. If you like
GNOME, Ubuntu might be more mature than SuSE with GNOME, but I can't testify
on this...

best wishes,

Roy

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