On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Bruce <[email protected]> wrote: > I would like some comment from your vast pool of experience as to what > this writer said. Most of my curiosity stems from the latter half of > this article. Pointers to articles, other distros, etc. are all > welcomed. If they come with your observations or opinions, so much the > better. > > http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/04/where-is-ubuntu-going-to.html
Misguided, at best. Not a single argument holds weight. Command line - boot into recovery mode, or if you want to get fancy, add 'break' to your kernel line in grub. You'll get a command line with a busybox shell. Runlevels - they are antiquated. Upstart is just one solution to the problem. Ubuntu has implemented a transition to runlevels, if you still want them: create an /etc/inittab file. Xorg - same issue. Create an xorg.conf file. Gimp - it didn't fit on the CD. Still available via apt-get or synaptic. Window buttons on left - easily changed. Ubuntu has its flaws, just like every other Linux distro, and just like everything else. But for me it gets ~95% right of what I want. For the other ~5% I can change it, and I do. Regards, - Robert _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
