On Saturday, April 09, 2011 09:44:14 Mark Wallace wrote: > I temporarily switched over to KDE. I was using it until 4.0 came along > and then learned the hard way when to duck for cover.. > > But the nice thing about Ubuntu is that they are slow to get on a > bandwagon. There is a Firefox 4.0 out but they are still giving people > 3.6.16. I put 4.0 in a Windows system last night and none of my son's > favorite add ons had upgraded, yet. > > Open office 3.0 was out for over six months before Ubuntu put it in their > distro. Let the slackware and Debian people polish it on their weekends. > The Ubuntu people want something that is ready to go, now. > > KDE 4.6 is still kind of buggy. Things don't crash in it like they used > to but i had to put Synaptic in it to see if I had a full install. The > package manager is not user friendly and you can't quickly see what > options you have available with it. It took three tries to get Microsoft > core fonts installed because you have to accept an agreement and I don't > think that the package manager in KDE can handle that. It just fails to > install. > > Mark
I want to respond to the above, but a Gnome 3 thread isn't the right place to do so, as none of this relates to it. I'm going to start a new thread to discuss the above. > On Saturday, April 09, 2011 07:29:08 am Sean Dague wrote: > > Because there was some talk on IRC yesterday about ways to try out > > Gnome3, I thought this might be of interest. There is a Gnome3 PPA for > > Ubuntu 11.04 (the one in beta now) at > > https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3 > > > > As it warns, there is no downgrade path from this, but for those that > > are brave at heart, it might be worth checking out. > > > > -Sean -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [email protected] _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium May 4 - Inkscape Jun 1 - Zimbra Jul 6 - Jul 2011
