On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Carl Turney <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
>>> 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
>
> I was just thinking...
> a -- LINUX now comes in ~605 different distros, and growing.
>      www.operating-system.org/betriebssystem/_english/os-liste.htm
> b -- Many Ubuntu users disagree with the divorce from Gnome.
>      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_(desktop_environment)#Reception
> c -- Someone in NL recently reserved the domain name   gnobuntu.org
>      whois.domaintools.com/gnobuntu.org
> ... ergo, I'm feeling pretty comfortable that folks can have their Gnome
> and Ubuntu too, one way or another, for quite some time to come.
>
> Or has someone already said this somewhere, and I wasn't paying attention?

Try linux mint.

Anyway i understand gnome s stil packaged. has anyone tried

sudo aptitude install gnome-desktop

in natty?

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