[ale] a no way out situation

[Rich Faulkner]

Jim, 

Unity is what was really throwing me and then heightened
commercialization in the latest offering.  I still run 11.04 on all of
my systems but have lately started looking at SolusOS as a potential
replacement.  I have a liking for Gnome2 (and Debian) so am starting to
lean that direction and away from Ubuntu myself.  

BTW>  I'm not using ATI because of support concerns.  Have been using
Nvidia with good success but know that may (or may not) continue
considering the finger that Linus gave Nvidia this past year.
Canonical's commercialization is fine and good - not knocking it; I just
don't want it in my distro.  Wishing Canonical all the best...

SolusOS is a featured distro in the latest LXF and can be found at:
http://solusos.com/

They also have just announced a new mirror at Georgia Tech.  

Cheers........


On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 10:49 -0400, Jim Philips wrote:

> There *was* a way out! It turned out I couldn't boot from the CD/DVD
> drive because the DVD there was corrupt. I managed to update the
> installation of Ubuntu 12.10 using a new disk. But there are still
> severe issues with the Catalyst driver. Ubuntu had to know that they
> were stranding a huge number of users with ATI cards by using this
> version of X. They did it anyway. This may be the last straw in my
> relationship with them.
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