Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread lukefromdc
I haven't dumped Ubuntu over Shuttleworth's capitalism, but I have dumped Unity, Software-Center and Ubuntu One and do not distribute them to my friends. This is where the focus seems to be on monetized software, CLA agreements, etc. I distribute older GNOME 2 Ubuntu, Ubuntu with gnome-shell

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 13:55 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: There has in fact been an outright malicious distro, SphinxUX OS or something out of Egypt, and it was revealed on Phoronix within a week of their initial lurid performance claims. I didn't know this, when I searched the web and

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread lukefromdc
Yeah-they also reported a bunch of hardware data back to a server controlled by the owners of the project On 06/22/2013 at 2:28 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 13:55 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: There has in fact been an outright malicious

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 20:28 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-06-22 at 13:55 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: There has in fact been an outright malicious distro, SphinxUX OS or something out of Egypt, and it was revealed on Phoronix within a week of their initial lurid

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread Jimmy Sjölund
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 7:55 PM, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: I haven't dumped Ubuntu over Shuttleworth's capitalism, but I have dumped Unity, Software-Center and Ubuntu One and do not distribute them to my friends. This is where the focus seems to be on monetized software, CLA agreements,

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-22 Thread lukefromdc
The fact that paid services are offered, and the fact that I prefer to limit all network activity to the browser, apt-get, and wget for security reasons. I like the old model: no support for anything paid, no support for DRM of any kind, and no background network activity. On 06/22/2013 at

Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-21 Thread Len Ovens
I have taken some screen shots of our mergable menu in action. http://www.ovenwerks.net/UStudiodocs/menu.html (If you have looked at stuff here before you may need to use the refresh) As you can see from the xubuntu/xfce versions of the menu, we can use this to replace our special menu and just

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 20:41 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: There are additional reasons not to depend on USC: One of them is that it is reported to be very difficult to install in Mint, into which people might want to install US metas. All Ubuntustudio packages are accessable from

Re: Some screenshots of our new DE agnostic menu

2013-06-21 Thread Len Ovens
On Fri, June 21, 2013 10:09 pm, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Fri, 2013-06-21 at 20:41 -0400, lukefro...@hushmail.com wrote: There are additional reasons not to depend on USC: One of them is that it is reported to be very difficult to install in Mint, into which people might want to install US