[ale] phoronix.com: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop To Be Supported Longer (5 Years)

[David Tomaschik]

On 10/22/2011 08:31 PM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> 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?
>
> Rich in Lilburn

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.

David


>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Don Kramer <donkramer at gmail.com
> <mailto:Don%20Kramer%20%3cdonkramer at gmail.com%3e>>
> *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> *To*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org
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> *Subject*: [ale] phoronix.com: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Desktop To Be
> Supported Longer (5 Years)
> *Date*: Sat, 22 Oct 2011 17:06:40 -0400
>
> 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. 
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE
> <http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAwNDE>
>
> 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.
>
> I switched to Debian Squeeze as my primary distro (from Ubuntu) this
> year, but this development may make me reconsider Ubuntu. 

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