On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 14:20:10 +1200, Nick Rout <[email protected]> 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?
It's much easier than that, desktop is already there. GNOME is still
running under the Unity shell - all that's missing until Oct11 is the new
GNOME shell. GTK+ is still supported.
So you can choose "Ubuntu Classic" at start up, or set it to start
permanently via Login config panel.
The trick is to ~$ gnome-panel from terminal to get it running normally
though.
Not sure how it'll work once new GNOME shell is included in 11.10.
BTW Derek, yes I'll be trying to get used to compiz now, but never liked
it('s drama) from the start. Now it's over-awing..
Cheers
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