[PLUG] 'buntus

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sun Apr 25 18:16:22 UTC 2010


On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Bruce <kd7vvk at gmail.com> wrote:
> All,
>
> I have been, with the help of this list, weaning myself and family from
> the world of Micro$oft.  I started out with SUSE somewhere around the
> 6.* version.  I followed a small crowd running the other direction when
> Novell started contracting with the Redmond community.
>
> I landed in the Kubuntu environment.  Kubuntu 9.10, in my experience,
> fell flat on it's ISO.  I assumed it was growing pains of the latest
> KDE.  I installed Ubuntu on my "it has to work" machine and then used
> the other laptop to tinker with 10.04 (starting with Alpha 2) of both
> Ubuntu and Kubuntu.  Neither seems to be very spectacular in what it
> does.  I haven't had any major problems, though I am far from a power user.
>
> I ran across this article this morning and wondered what other folks
> might think.  I hope I am not inviting a flame war.  I am still a
> husband/father/truck driver and don't have time to research this myself.
>
> 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
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bruce
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The xorg.conf thing missing that the writer points out isn't just an
Ubuntu thing, it's an Xorg thing. I think that's where some of the
disconnect and confusion comes into play about Ubuntu, it just
packages software like any other distro and are at the mercy of
upstream devs when it comes to startling changes like removing the
xorg config file, FWIW you can create it that file and still use it
like it was in previous versions.

Drew-



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