Re: Best Alternative Operating System To Ubuntu?

On 29/06/11 23:49, Alan Pope wrote:
On 29 June 2011 13:42, Avi Greenbury<lists@xxxxxx> wrote:
Yeah, so 11.04 was perhaps not the time to switch to Unity - I don't
see the logic in switching to a Gnome 2.x-based Unity immediately
before porting Unity to the Gnome 3 libraries, unless the difference in
these libs isn't as great as I keep seeing suggested. Are they that
similar that the next six months will be spent fixing current bugs in
Unity, or will they mostly be spent fixing bugs incurred by switching
versions?

I just asked the developers. Unity built against GNOME 3 is currently
in progress, I was told it will be done "100% tonight", "only the
panel remains, the rest is there".

Al.

In another message I note that you gave 3 URLs to look at about this Unity/Gnome/KDE stuff.

I haven't read them yet I have to admit but it does seem to me that from what was stated previously about why Canonical went Unity is contradicted by what you just stated about "Unity built against GNOME 3 is currently in progress".

This business about gnome shell, gnome 3, unity is, honestly, damn and totally, confusing!

Why "[build] against GNOME 3" and why not simply use Gnome 3 instead of doing all this horse-manure about creating Unity?

Is there some sort of a movement to confuse Linux users and get them off-side by coming up with goobly-dook like 'gnome-shell' and 'gnome 3' and 'unity' and therefore creating divisions and arguments amongst the users?

The bottom line is: can anyone here write a clear and concise explanation of what all this horse-manure about gnome-shell, gnome 3 and unity all about?

BC

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