On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 09:03 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 08:00 AM, Ken Gunderson wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2011-03-30 at 07:51 +0800, Christopher Chan wrote: > >> On Wednesday, March 30, 2011 04:15 AM, Gabriel de la Cruz wrote: > >>> The Solaris OS was carefully designed as a product, Linux is a > >>> combination of technollogies carefully developed to interact with > >>> eachother but created in independent projects. Both of them a very > >>> well made, but the way how all the parts within Solaris relate to > >>> eachother is more consistent. > >>> > >>> Solaris and linux are like 2 different languages, both ritch on their > >>> own way, why shoulnt we write phylosopy in German? > >>> > >> > >> Er...certainly the core is a carefully designed product but I would not > >> go so far as to claim the whole of Solaris is a carefully designed product. > >> > >> Anyway, when will KDE be brought on board instead of that directionless > >> excuse for a desktop environment called GNOME? > > > > Ha! Why anyone would want, or indeed, could even use that bug ridden > > pos they call kde these days is beyond me.... > > > > fyi- I was a kde1, 2, and to some extent kde3 user before I gave up and > > switched to Xfce4. Changing platform to OS made Gnome one of the pills > > I had to swallow. And a jagged little pill it was, as I formerly > > detested it. After some time using it, however, I began to appreciate > > Gnome. I test drive the latest and not so greatest KDE4 from time to > > time on Linux boxes and am amazed at just how badly they missed it.... > > Yes, Kubuntu is a complete disaster. Not the KDE team's fault though I > don't think. The Kubuntu devs botched it real bad. On another note, I > have heard that users of KDE on OpenSolaris are happy with it?
Who ever said anything about K/Ubuntu, mon? Imho, Ubuntu is for lamers who're not quite bright enough to use a real operating system.... > I stopped using OpenSolaris as a desktop after I have had enough of GNOME... My experience is opposite - the more I use Gnome, the greater my appreciation. Every once in a while I go retro and take Xfce or LXDE for a spin, or even more retro and roll by own on top of OpenBOX. While each has it's pros and cons, I keep coming back to Gnome because it just works and I've better things to do with my time than tweak my workstation desktop ad nauseum. -- Ken Gunderson <kgund...@teamcool.net> _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss