[PLUG] 'buntus

[Larry Brigman]

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
>

Another thing that I see is that Ubuntu has gone with upstart for
their init processing.
Most of the other distros use sysVinit so things are really different
for startup.
I don't know what other projects use upstart.  Nice idea.  Still evolving.

The process of just one choice of application per operation type helps
prevent confusion.
You can still install the gimp or other packages. It's just their
choice of defaults.  The gimp
does have a steep learning curve.