On Fri, 2011-06-03 at 14:20 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > 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? No need. It's already there as the 'Classic' desktop using a default install...
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