Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > I have several boot cds. And none of them booted as slow as kubuntu 7.04.
The boot cd is slow as a molasses hell, but the installed system boots quite fast -slower than my Gentoo, but not significantly. > nope, what made them the 'most popular distribution' was the fact that they > were hyped even before they released the first version. There have been other > easy-to-use distos before and after ubuntu - and I am sure most of them would > overtake ubuntu, if they would be hyped the same way. I was of the same opinion, *before* trying it and using it for a year at work. I've used a bunch of other binary distros: Mandrake, Debian, Slackware. Still, Kubuntu beated them all. I was full of negative prejudices, just because of the hype, like you, but I had to admit it was a fscking good system. With quirky bugs here and there, of course. Oh, and about the installer: well, Gentoo even hasn't a functional graphical installer, AFAIK (the advice everyone hears on mls and forums is: DO NOT USE THE GRAPHICAL INSTALLER! -so why ship it, if it's ~?) Minor glitches like having to reformat a clean partition do not look like "braindead" to me. The Slackware installer, that's just braindead imho (even if I have fun using it). > I don't love debian - it is just a distribution - and I am annoyed by hype. > Any kind of hype. I remember very well the hype around Mandrake (I got almost > insane, when I tried it. Lots and lots of sugarly cute graphics and colours > and no obvious way to turn it off...), I have seen the smaller hype around > lindows, I luckily joined gentoo before the hype and I have seen ubuntu > beeing hyped and reported as the 'bestest' distribution of all time, before > they even released anything. First *buntu releases were not 'bestest'. From 6.06 onward, it is at least in the first 3 places, for me. > from my POV (you are free to see it differently) ubuntu is not userfriendly, > it is idiot friendly. That's GNOME. Use KDE, and it won't be idiot friendly anymore. Kubuntu KDE doesn't look that much different from my KDE on Gentoo, apart it's configured a little better. By the way: I'd love to know how is kpdf patched. I use kpdf at work with Kubuntu and here on Gentoo, and they look pretty identical. I'm sure you're right: I just don't know what are the differences. m. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
