[nmglug] Ubuntu Distributions,

[Satsangat Khalsa]

Ted,
    You had mentioned a preference for gnome.  Have you given thought to
Linux Mint?
I understand it can be configured with Gnome3.

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:11 AM, nick pitlosh <nickpitlosh at gmail.com> wrote:

> You both should look at the suse kiwi project its really neat
> On Mar 18, 2012 6:55 PM, "Jeffrey Miller" <jeffrey at strandcruisers.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Excellent, Ted!  Thanks for sharing.
>>
>> We are still using  DVD version of 11.10 of Edubuntu for live booting
>> purposes at our school.  I'll have to look into the differences in the
>> educational software for both options.  We are still looking at JumpDrives
>> for booting options.  But may now move to some type of NetBoot option for
>> loading Edubuntu.
>>
>> Thanks again, Ted.
>>
>> Peace
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Ted Pomeroy wrote:
>>
>> > To All, and especially the small group at our last meeting, Hello and
>> > thank you for interest and comments about the new Long Term Support
>> > editions of Ubuntu. I think that I will switch to Kubuntu for several
>> > reasons:
>> > 1.It is customizable by the user, giving the user controls over what
>> > software runs and the settings for that software.
>> > 2.KDE is a community project, and 'Unity' is a corporate project
>> > originating out of the goals and workings of Canonical. They are still
>> > a good curator/gatekeeper for selecting and tuning from the Debian
>> > repositories which makes it easier for me to use programs. Canonical
>> > in Ubuntu does work out the incompatibilities or conflicts that
>> > sometimes arise between packages.
>> > 3.KDE is menu based, and I happen to like menus and a system that
>> > works like a list of contents or an index. It will mean learning a
>> > slightly different lest than Gnome 2.x, but seems better than other
>> > options at this time.
>> > 4.KDE and the 'K' packages have some very good things I already use,
>> > especially Kstars. It will mean learning the settings menu and a new
>> > environment: Qtk instead of gtk, but I guess that will have to be part
>> > of the effort this year.
>> > 5. I confess I like the easy way Ubuntu allows addition of the NON
>> > Free bits, which enable Flash and mp3 and some dvd playing. We
>> > certainly are in a crush of loss of freedom and I may change my mind
>> > on these eventually. (Keep reminding me of my errors, all you purists
>> > and higher beings.)
>> > I will not be installing right away, there is a full year to go on
>> > Lucid 10.04 LTS. I may even extend my use beyond the support as I did
>> > with 8.10.  I will be using a live disk of the latest stable version -
>> > 11.10, Oneric, which I have already downloaded. I may also try
>> > Xubuntu, as an alternative. But I really like all the tweaking
>> > available in KDE versus other current options. May someday I will just
>> > use Debian stable and pick and choose in the Debian repositories
>> > directly.
>> > Thanks for your thoughts, see you next meeting, Ted P.
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