Kristoffer Lundén wrote:
On 3/16/06, *Michael M* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
It makes me eager to use Gnome 2.14! It's times like these I think I
should switch away from Debian to something more cutting-edge like
Gentoo. Then I go read the Gentoo installation docs, and after about
five pages I get very sleepy, and when I wake up, I'm still running
Debian. :-)
You could give Ubuntu a try - it's very cutting-edge, not the least when
it comes to Gnome, as it tracks Gnomes release cycles (releasing a new
version about one month after each time and keeping it updated), there
is no installation hassles and you'd feel right at home with a lot as
it's built on debian. I'm running Gnome 2.14 already in the development
version (Ubuntu Dapper), otherwise the full version will be released in
a little while.
Yeah, I will try Ubuntu again ... I have fiddled with it before and
thought it was pretty impressive. I'm just waiting for Dapper to be
released (which, I read, will be delayed a month or so).
It does not install Epiphany by default though, as it uses Firefox, but
it's just one "sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser
epiphany-extensions" away, and then you can set it to be your default in
Gnome Preferred Applications.
I thought that was odd, but I guess it's because Firefox is the big
x-platform success story for Mozilla in particular and open-source in
general. I guess it does make sense that a distro geared toward Windows
converts would stick to what's popular. Plus, it's a very nice browser,
but I think it's become too resource intensive. It's getting away from
the lightweight browser it started out as.
Still, it is very useful in the sense that it provides a measure of
familiarity for people changing OSes. I've used Firefox on Windows, OS
X, and Linux. It's good to have available at least a few major apps
you're very familiar with when you're starting out on a new OS and
trying to figure out how it all works. It reduces the shock. :-)
--
Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to
dream." -S. Jackson
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