[juneau-lug] Re: test

  • From: East Wind <eastwind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: James Zuelow <juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 12:09:24 -0800

Hello James,

All very true. Plus I think ppl tend to like
what they learn first.

I'm actually most interested in all the servers
and if suse is more desktop user oriented ten
it may not be for me.

In suse's defense I have to say that I really
liked the smoothness, the looks of the situation.
They kind of do a best of thing. Fedora tries too
hard to be a one-size-fits-all thing. It's menus
are too clogged up with several little widgets that all do
the same thing. None of which I use if webmin can do
the job anyways.

And suse definately had the best out of box experience
for VNC. As opposed to the gag-me green desktop manager
setup that fedora provides me with.



Thursday, April 20, 2006, 8:04:23 AM, you wrote:

JZ> =20

>> -----Original Message-----
>>=20
>> As for Debian......
>> Being KDE free is not an advantage!
>> Perhaps I just accepted the default which was not to install=20
>> KDE? Even fedora doesn't install KDE by default.
>>=20
>> Somebody....pour lighter fluid on my soapbox and light it up!

JZ> I guess we need to sit down one of these meetings and just demo our
JZ> favorite distro.

JZ> I seem to have a lot of misconceptions of SuSE and Fedora based on bad
JZ> past experiences.
JZ> Here's another misconception.

JZ> ALL of my Debian desktops run KDE as their desktop.  I personally don't
JZ> like Gnome, and the gnome libs get installed only as a dependency for
JZ> other packages.

JZ> However I also don't do the task selector during install - I install the
JZ> basic packages and then go on manually from there.  I think that if you
JZ> just ask for a "desktop environment" in a normal Debian install you'll
JZ> get Gnome and KDE libraries and desktops, with gdm and Gnome set as the
JZ> default.  I'll check it out and report back.  The Gnome default is a
JZ> historical artifact dating from way back when when KDE's QT libraries
JZ> weren't GPL.  But that changed and now KDE meets the Debian Free
JZ> Software Guidelines, and so is part of the core distribution.

JZ> Same thing as my stating that SuSE's YaST wasn't free - it didn't used
JZ> to be, but Kevin tells me that Novell GPL'd it a while back.  And I'm
JZ> out of touch with Fedora because I didn't like my RedHat experiences.
JZ> Maybe time to get back in touch with some other distros.

JZ> James
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