On 02/06/11 17:18, Craig George wrote: > Ahh okay !! > I stand corrected (or educated... ;-) ) . > I see the problem with unity then if it is going to be forced onto any > current and future ubuntu releases. > Hmm, I have been looking at alternatives myself for a while. Mainly a distro > that is friendly for development and network admin. > All linux distros are obviously good but I may have been getting a bit lazy > with ubuntu and it's ease of gui tools. > Need to learn the 'real' linux now and brush up more on my cli skills. > > Regards, > > Craig > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rik Tindall [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, 2 June 2011 4:01 p.m. > To: Canterbury Linux Users Group > Subject: Re: [Linux-users] GNOME foundation > > On 02/06/11 13:18, Craig George wrote: >> Why not just use classic mode instead? >> >>> On 1/06/2011 8:12 PM, "Rik Tindall"<[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Ok, on the advice of 1/7 of tonight's workshop, have googled up the >>> solution to my second-most bugbear with Unity: >>> >>> Howto "configure the number of desktop (virtual workspace) you want. You >>> can specify the columns and rows. The default is 2 columns by 2 rows" >>> >>> > http://maketecheasier.com/adjust-ubuntu-unitys-settings-easily-with-gunity/2 > 011/05/30 > Yes, that's what I've set 11.04 to - "Ubuntu classic" - but it's only > good until October. After that GNOME 2 support is discontinued.
Then again, 11.04 is actually fully supported until October 2012, so we can squeeze a little more nostalgia out longer that way :-) In October this year, 11.10 will support GNOME 3 only - and that only as an option. (Fair comment re LTS Steve.) Glad you're sorted re versions now Craig. Good luck. Regards, Rik _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
