On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:34:09PM +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
> > I have feeling that Ubuntu/Kubuntu way would be solution that you are 
> > looking 
> > for, but taking that some applications in both desktop environments are 
> > mature while counterpart is far from that, making graphic style or size of 
> > system priority will affect functionality. 
> 
> I agree, that's the ubuntu way, and that's one of the reasons which make
> ubuntu so successful: it's just clean, without lacking of the basic
> functionalities you need. And if you want more, you just open the
> installer and add, without worrying about the addition of unknown
> repositories with exotic names, as we have to do. And these, together
> with the ridiculous delay in solving issues in openSUSE, are the reasons
> why I'm moving to ubuntu.

This is just a bit of a strawman I guess.

> To be honest, the lack of functionality sounds like an excuse to me.
> I talked about basic desktop applications, like the one provided by
> default, so I would like some example of fundamental functionality which
> would lack adding gnomebaker instead than...nothing, because nothing is
> installed by default in gnome at the moment to create CD/DVD's, with the
> exception of the integrated functionalities of Nautilus. 

Well and you got a reply that it will be added for 10.3, while I just questioned
it a bit why not to use k3b.
 
> > Last time I compared distros it was Red Hat 9 vs. SUSE 9. 
> > The only thing Red Hat got better is graphic appearance. 
> > SUSE 9 got better hardware recognition, more programs and more programs 
> > that 
> > have no missing functionality. I got in both distros file managers, but 
> > Konqueror was by far better than Nautilus.
> 
> The difference is the cleanliness. I don't like Red Hat myself, but
> without a doubt, its consistency is amazing.

"Cleanliness" ... Both KDE and GNOME is OpenSource software.

Now if you would discuss cleanliness in regards to having no 
closed source software on the distribution, I could understand it,
but you do seperate KDE and GNOME for no real good reason.

Ciao, Marcus
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