On Sunday 24 April 2005 16:55, Finn-Arne Johansen wrote: > Gjermund Skogstad wrote: > > s�ndag 24. april 2005, 12:16, skrev Finn-Arne Johansen: > >>Hmm, does that mean that your contract now is ended ? > >> > >>If so I hope you still will be able to help out a bit. As you may > >> know, I've been working a bit with getting support for 2.6 kernel > >> and gnome into Debian-edu. I guess 2.4 and KDE will still be the > >> default choice when installing Skolelinux, but I also know there > >> is many out there that won't use Skolelinux because of KDE. > > > > This rumor is something I've heard before but never been able to > > understand. > > Well being one of those who never have liked KDE, but I have used and > likes icewm, blackbox and gnome, I'm able to understand them.
I can follow you on that one, and it's not because I use GNOME (I haven't used anything but KDE since KDE 2.x), but simply due to limited choice. Likewise, I would absolutely hate it, if Skolelinux was all about GNOME. Same with Ubuntu - didn't touch it, until Kubuntu came along. It's all about personal preferences. > > Would you be kind enough to enlighten me with regard to what the > > problems using KDE are (to extent of rejecting the use of > > debian-edu/Skolelinux)? > > Well, I dont reject Skolelinux because of KDE, but I've talked to > others. And My point is that we should not depends upon KDE, I'm not > even sure it's wise to depend upon "KDE or GNOME", but that's another > (although similar) issue. So please stop picking at me. But if you > feel that I should take the work I'm currently doing for Debian-edu > elsewere, then please tell me so. Please stay. I, for one, appreciate your contributions very much, and I'm sure everybody feels that way, actually. > Some of you guys seems like the suits I've meet the last years that > tells me that MS is the only way to go. If it aint KDE, and if it > Aint Free Software then we cant use it, some of you says to me. If we > lock ourself to KDE, and never anything else, then I guess we might > as well leave it. > > > And while I'm at it; what is the alternative for these folks? > > Windows or another GNU/Linux like K12LTSP? > > [snip] > > SOme of them might choose K12LTSP or a Windows solution yes, but that > is not the point. So what if they have good reasons for choosing > something else. We shouldn't lock anyone to any technology. If it's > easy to choose a Gnome desktop, then let people do so. [ ... ] Try asking around. Creating a little buzz around the possibility of getting GNOME into Skolelinux would be a start. Hopefully, people will join in and do some work. Best regards, -- Frederik Dannemare | http://sentinel.dk | http://linuxworlddomination.dk http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=Frederik+Dannemare http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/FrederikDannemare Key fingerprint = 30CF 7AD3 17D9 1A63 A730 ECA6 0D4C 2C97 9D9A 238E
