Peter Köhlmann wrote:
> Hadron Quark wrote:
>
> > Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >> __/ [ yttrx ] on Wednesday 06 September 2006 19:47 \__
> >>
> >>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>> Ebuntu
> >>>>
> >>>> Enlightenment Ubuntu Project
> >>>>
> >>>> ,----[ Quote ]
> >>>> | Currently there is no project release yet.
> >>>> | But you can use the ELive CD.
> >>>> `----
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.ebuntu.org/
> >>>>
> >>>> So there's GNOME (Ubuntu, Edubuntu), KDE (Kubuntu), Fluxbox (nUbuntu,
> >>>> Fluxbuntu), XFCE (Xubuntu), and now Enlightenment (Ebuntu). I'm sure
> >>>> there are more Ubuntu forks (any FVWM-based Ubuntu?), including
> >>>> mainstream distributions like Mepis, which use Ubuntu as the 'root'.
> >>>
> >>> No matter what anyone says, enlightenment is a dead project. Rasterman
> >>> is long gone, and the dipshits involved in its "development" now have
> >>> been "developing" DR17 for three years.
> >>>
> >>> Its a stupid idea for an ubuntu.
> >>
> >> But one can mix and match to get the best of several worlds, I
> >> suspect.
> >
> > Mix and match what???? All the application SW is the fucking same.
> >
>
> windowmanagers are not "application SW"
Who gives a shit.
Breaking a defective product into components only makes business sense
if you dump the parts that don't work properly and push the working
bit.
Now any **buntu will be associated with the crap ones even if one
happens to work.
>
> >> Aragorn once said that GNOME can Sawfish, Enlightenment, windowmaker, or
> >> whatever else. I am not very familiar with these (I entered the Linux
> >> world when GNOME and KDE ~2 existed), so it didn't make sense to me at
> >> the time. Could a user, for example, give up kwin easily? Overall, as a
> >> visual environment, I have always fancied Enlightenment the most. KDE is
> >> more usable and effective though. It's a toolbox, not a DE. *smile*
> >
> > Does this make sense to anyone out there?
> >
> Yes. At least to peole who use linux
> That would naturally exclude you
And over 97% of computer users, not surprisingly.
>
> > Is it any wonder projects are failing all the time with this type of
> > advocacy and thought process?
> >
>
> *This* is certainly no reason for projects to fail
> Just because you are a wintroll with little linux experience does not mean
> that you have a valid point
Au contraire. It's new users (not that he is) that have the most valid
points, since they are the target market, and it's precisely because
linux writers don't know business principles 101 that Linux is next to
nowhere as a desktop.
>
> > Dont you realise that this "mix and match" is what is screwing up Linux
> > left, right & centre. get something done *right*. Get it done
> > finalised. The days of getting a stiffy from being able to "poke" a
> > memory address to get some "neat trick" are long gone.
> >
>
> Get your "facts" right at least once per week
> You sound like linux-sux or markzoom. They don't have a clue about what they
> are blubbering also
I sure have some business sense and I can see when something's not fit
for market, particularly when 97% of people won't even have it for
free.
>
> > If the linux code bases continue to branch at the rate they're doing so
> > that some pimply programmer can reease his own WM or distro then theres
> > no hope for any of us.
> >
>
> Who is "us" in that case?
> It is certainly not you and other linux users. Because you are not a linux
> user
And you intentionally miss the point again KohlKopf. You're playing so
dumb you must be working for Bill.
>
> --
> Try to be the best of whatever you are, even if what you are is
> no good.
You sure are good at being no good, KohlKopf. Bill must value your
services to Micro$oft.
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