[huskerlug] Re: DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

  • From: GreyGeek <GreyGeek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:33:21 -0500

James Worrest wrote:
> I'm not really surprised that Ubuntu is stable, unfortunately as I said,  I 
> was amazed and displeased on how closely they follow Debian.  It is amazing 
> how little some of these developers pay attention to the applications.   
> After seeing how poorly KDE4
> worked when it first came out (did they ever fix kb3 yet, by the way?) 
The KDE4 version of K3b is due out shortly.  The author had to add a 
special procedure to QProcess so that he could do multiple threading 
without mutex and still allow the threads to talk to each other, which 
took some doing to get it the way he wanted it.  This was in addition to 
having to rewrite K3b in QT4.

> and some of it's applications not working, it makes absolutely no difference 
> to me when KDE4 comes out on anything.  
mmm... I am running KDE4.2.1 on Kubuntu 9.04 beta and the only app I've 
found that doesn't run well on it, so far, is SecondLife... but it 
doesn't run well on any Linux desktop.

> At least as far as desktop Linux is concerned, there seems to be too much in 
> the wrappings (eye candy)  of the package (GUIs) than there is in the package 
> itself.  Now, I am all in getting more hardware to work, but sometimes this 
> isn't even the case, the Hardware Abstraction Layer (Devices?) didn't do as 
> good of job of detecting and working with my hard drives than what was used 
> in the older distributions.
>   
"too much eye candy"?     :-(   Now, Jim, that is downright lame.   
You're beginning to sound like a Windows fanboi grasping at straws 
trying to find something to criticize.    Eye candy is totally under 
your control.  That is no different from some complaining about the 
wallpaper.      Sheesh...
> Not having Seamonkey, Iceape, in the latest Debian based releases (hey so 
> they don't update them every 15 minutes, that really shouldn't be a problem, 
> especially for Debian) really has me miffed.
> For desktop systems, it's the applications.
>
> So, I'm not highly pleased with some of the latest happenings, I know that 
> Etch is going back on one computer and not Lenny.  I'm not sure PCLinuxOS is 
> going back on that computer, because I have yet to have a LiveDVD of it to 
> work yet. :-P
>   
Well, you can always install one of the "light" desktops, like Xfce, 
fvwm, etc.  Then you'd be back to Win95 days.  ;-)

BTW, did you read about the breakup of the PCLOS dev team?  Most of them 
left PCLOS & TexStar and went off to start "Unity" Linux with TInyMe.  
CSol, the system admin of the site, claimed that TexStar gave her the 
"Keys to the kingdom" and she's blaming "the boys" for all the problems 
because they resented her leadership.      PCLOS development is in 
shambles.  It's future is in doubt.
GG

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