home bbs files messages ]

Forums before death by AOL, social media and spammers... "We can't have nice things"

   alt.os.linux.gentoo      Stupid OS you gotta compile EVERYTHING      17,684 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 16,574 of 17,684   
   J.O. Aho to AZ Nomad   
   Re: kde3 to be masked   
   04 Nov 09 06:58:47   
   
   From: user@example.net   
      
   AZ Nomad wrote:   
   > On Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:32:07 +0100, Aragorn    
   wrote:   
   >>> Maybe it's tine to switch to gnome, [...   
   >   
   >> I'm not really a fan of Gnome.  I really do like KDE 3.5.10 though.   
   >   
   >>> ...] or to another distribution.   
   >   
   >> Sabayon is Gentoo-based, but I haven't really checked their package   
   >> list, so it's possible they supply KDE 4 as well, although I /believe/   
   >> that their default desktop environment is Gnome.   
   >   
   >> I myself have recently also been looking into NexentaOS, which is the   
   >> GNU userland with the OpenSolaris kernel and C library.  The package   
   >> management and set-up is based upon Ubuntu, but what I find interesting   
   >> about it are the Solaris Zones, ZFS, and the fact that it also supports   
   >> running in a Xen dom0/domU, but then again, they're all binary packages   
   >> and of course, then it won't be "Linux" anymore.   
   >   
   > I've settled down a bit.  I'll probably start using gnome until kde4   
   > matures out a bit.  I did the same thing when kde 3.x first came out.   
   >   
   > I just don't understand what the kde people are thinking when they make   
   > really idiotic decisions.  Do they even use their desktop for real work?   
      
   The gnome2 devels aren't any better, now they included mono as part of gnome2.   
      
   --   
      
     //Aho   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca