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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] LINUX / UBUNTU
From:       Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon () decoulon ! ch>
Date:       2005-03-03 15:43:15
Message-ID: 200503031641.32101.tcoulon () decoulon ! ch
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On Thursday, 3 March 2005 15.00, vailima wrote:
> Definately going to have to give KDE a try on that UBUNTU software. Just
> have the feeling that there's something "solid" there.
>
> Be interesting to see if I can get KDE to install. Really surprised that
> KDE didn't come with the installation package, not that I have anything
> against GNOME.
>
> Can't get UBUNTU to install let alone run on the old DELL CPi, a D300XT
> model. Save for the sound portions of the Mandrake v7.0 software the old
> laptop, while slow by today's standards, has been and continues to be very
> reliable when running Mandrake v7.0. KDE comes up and for the most parts
> seems to works well but nothing from this UBUNTU version of LINUX. Just
> won't install on the old laptop
>
> As for the name, still think it's a dumb name for marking purposes in the
> States but then,the price was right.

Hmm. vailima, I really think you should read a little of the stuff they put on 
the site (and this WILL be my last post about Ubuntu on this list):

- 1) Ubuntu is NOT Debian + Gnome, it's based on Debian but you can't just 
apt-get upgrade or you'll get to know Murphy's law

- 2) the choice of Gnome-only is theirs. They provide some repositories to 
install KDE on the intel version, it does not work on the ppc version.

- 3) There is a "kubuntu" project starting to create a KDE-only version. Just 
wait or help

- 4) If you had read what they say you'd have understood that Ubuntu just does 
not care about marketing. They target developping countries by offering a 
distro that's simple to install, has a good hardware recognition and is - and 
will remain - free, in all meanings of the word.

I think what they want to achieve is good. The way they chose may not be. 
Anyway, rants on a KDE list can't help. Take it, leave it or take part in 
their development.

Now to close this: Ubuntu has no KDE. So it is. SO kde-linux is not the place 
to continue discussing the + and - of a non-kde distribution.

Thierry

-- 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not
sure about the former" - Albert Einstein
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