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On 10/22/2011 08:31 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
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Interesting development and a wise move (IMHO). But speaking from
my own narrow opinion, I am not a fan of Unity nor Gnome 3 nor KDE
or Xfce. I'm rather partial to Gnome 2 and am quite happy with
that. I liked Fedora and I really like Ubuntu but more and more
find myself wondering if I'm going to be custom building my own
fork of Ubuntu to get what I want or go to Mint. Am I the only
one thinking this way or are others like me and happy with the
desktop classic? Perhaps a well placed email to Canonical asking
for a choice at installation for which desktop we want? Is such a
thing feasible? Perhaps not in a CD release but certainly in a
DVD image?<br>
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Rich in Lilburn<br>
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The biggest problem you're likely to run into with this is the fact
that there's nobody maintaining Gnome 2. All new development out of
the Gnome project is focused on Gnome 3. I imagine it won't be too
long until many applications have switched to GTK 3 for their
toolkit, but maybe I'm wrong.<br>
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David<br>
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<b>Reply-to</b>: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><ale@ale.org></a><br>
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<b>Subject</b>: [ale] phoronix.com: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop To Be
Supported Longer (5 Years)<br>
<b>Date</b>: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:06:40 -0400<br>
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I think this is big news on the desktop front: Starting with
Ubuntu 12.04's April 2012 release, Canonical's support for the
desktop release will be five years (which they've already been
doing for the server edition) instead of three. <br>
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href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE">http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE</a><br>
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And for you Gnome 3 haters, since for Ubuntu 10.04 the LTS three
year support cycle also included the KDE version (Kubuntu 10.04
LTS) and the Xfce version (Xubuntu 10.04 LTS), hopefully the five
year support cycle will include those too, as well as the newest
official Ubuntu derived distro .. Lubuntu with the LXDE desktop. <br>
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I switched to Debian Squeeze as my primary distro (from Ubuntu)
this year, but this development may make me reconsider Ubuntu. <br>
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