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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
