On Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:46:05 +0200, 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.
The windowing environments and managers are NOT.
>
>> 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, it does, but you have to be able to understand non-windows operating
systems.
>
> Is it any wonder projects are failing all the time with this type of
> advocacy and thought process?
Is it any wonder you are so clueless?
>
> Dont you realise that this "mix and match" is what is screwing up Linux
> left, right & centre.
Nothing is screwing up Linux right and left.
> 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.
Are you really this stupid and dishonest or is it just some game?
>
> 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.
.. or maybe you are just scared of uncontrolled information and software.
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Rick
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