Linux creator calls for GNOME fork

Eweek Linux Devices ^ | August 4th | Eric Brown

[ShadowAce]

Yup—it’s all about choice.

[kevao]

GNOME fork

I came to that fork, and took it. And have been happy with the PCLinuxOS implementation of KDE ever since.

[Still Thinking]

Linux creator calls for GNOME fork

Torvalds wants to fork a gnome?? Is Tux gonna be jealous?

[Moonman62]

We mention Fedora because no other major Linux distro has yet to make the switch.

I downloaded a spin of Fedora last week and malware keylogged my username and password and tried to break into my email accounts.

Linux has improved, it's livecds make great rescue disks, but it's alpha quality software.

[for-q-clinton]

Yep and most will chose not to use it. :-P

[ShadowAce]

Fine by me.

[ShadowAce]

Linux has improved, it's livecds make great rescue disks, but it's alpha quality software.

LOL! Try again.

[ShadowAce]

[Still Thinking]

Oh, so a 3-way then? Or is Linus just gonna watch?

[Dead Corpse]

Unity has a lot of barf value in it. Not impressed at all.

[Dead Corpse]

Where the heck did you download your Fedora from? RussianHackersDistros.ru?

Linux live cd's are a lot better than "alpha". Especially if you create a bootable USB for a live OS to troubleshoot server and desktop hardware.

[Moonman62]

Where the heck did you download your Fedora from? RussianHackersDistros.ru?

I downloaded it from the Fedora Spin website.

[Moonman62]

Linux live cd's are a lot better than "alpha"

If you're lucky it's beta. Very lucky.

I was able to lock up the kernel with one distribution by using the flash player.

[Moonman62]

Linux has improved, it's livecds make great rescue disks, but it's alpha quality software.

LOL! Try again.

Is there anything lower than alpha?

LOL!

[Dead Corpse]

Yer' doin' it wrong then.

The live cd's needs persistent drive space set aside if you are going to start installing stuff.

Use an 8GB flash drive and you can have a functional system with flash, Wireshark, Umit, EtherApe, and the full LibraOffice suite... and still have a couple of Gigs left over for personal storage. Ask me how I know... ;-)

[Moonman62]

The live cd's needs persistent drive space set aside if you are going to start installing stuff.

I didn't install anything. The Flash player was included in the livecd.

In other distributions I had applications disappear (ungraceful termination). At least they didn't lock up the kernel.

[ShadowAce]

Is there anything lower than alpha?

You do realize, don't you, that major companies and organizations wouldn't run alpha-quality software for their production systems?

Yet Google, NYSE, FR, and a whole host of other, Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 companies use it every day for production purposes. Not to mention that well over 90% of the world's fastest, biggest, baddest computers run--Linux.

Just because you couldn't figure it out doesn't make it alpha quality.

[Dead Corpse]

I just booted up an Ubuntu 11.04 x86 on a Dell D600. Runs like a champ. Youtube comes up fine as does pretty much everything on albinoblacksheep.com.

The live version of Unity even works on my other workstation, Dell Optiplex 780.

Running full install of Ubuntu 11.04 w/Unity on my AMD quad-core at home. Grub has Win7-64 and VM ESXi 4.1.

I'd make sure your hardware is on the list. Could be you are running on a generic video setup if it couldn't find a config for your card.

[ShadowAce]

Running full install of Ubuntu 11.04 w/Unity on my AMD quad-core at home.

You have my sincerest condolences.

:)

[Moonman62]

I'd make sure your hardware is on the list. Could be you are running on a generic video setup if it couldn't find a config for your card.

That's the other problem with Linux, having to buy compatible hardware. But that wasn't the problem. I have a brand name video card. Video and wireless drivers were what I found to be the big improvements. But good luck getting a Logitech pointing device to work if you want more than left click, right click, and a scroll wheel. That was a problem in all the distributions I tried. It can probably be fixed, but I don't want to deal with the hassle. I already have an OS where it works like it should.