I've been running Unity since I read the announcement. It has quite a few bugs and takes some getting use to. I already prefer it over Gnome. it actually runs somewhat on top of Gnome. Still relies on Nautilus. I like when I can favor the keyboard over the mouse. Unity does this in a much more user friendly way then say Xmonad. While the mouse isn't irrelevant its use is simplified via the interface.
I say a fork is in order. Miguel de icaza (Gnome creator and now MS/.net fanboy working for Novell) has stated he plans to continue integration of mono into Gnome. Mono being a "free software" implementation of Microsoft's .NET. Between him and Greg Kroah-Hartman Microsoft is sinking its patents deeper into Linux/Open Source. -Chris On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/ubuntu-moves-away-gnome > > "Canonical representatives had to deny that they were forking GNOME > with the work on the Unity interface. Unity is a Canonical-sponsored > project that was initially delivered for the Ubuntu Netbook Remix. > > This is a scary thought. Without a gnome option for Ubuntu, I suspect > Ubuntu could very well suck. I hope they keep a gnome option if any > of this is true. > > Chris... > > > -- > "As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to > be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity." > -Roger Penrose > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > LinuxUsers@socallinux.org > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list LinuxUsers@socallinux.org http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
