On Samstag, 9. Juni 2007, b.n. wrote: > Hemmann, Volker Armin ha scritto: > > I have several boot cds. And none of them booted as slow as kubuntu 7.04. > > The boot cd is slow as a molasses hell, but the installed system boots > quite fast -slower than my Gentoo, but not significantly. > > > nope, what made them the 'most popular distribution' was the fact that > > they were hyped even before they released the first version. There have > > been other easy-to-use distos before and after ubuntu - and I am sure > > most of them would overtake ubuntu, if they would be hyped the same way. > > I was of the same opinion, *before* trying it and using it for a year at > work. I've used a bunch of other binary distros: Mandrake, Debian, > Slackware. Still, Kubuntu beated them all. I was full of negative > prejudices, just because of the hype, like you, but I had to admit it > was a fscking good system. With quirky bugs here and there, of course. > > Oh, and about the installer: well, Gentoo even hasn't a functional > graphical installer, AFAIK (the advice everyone hears on mls and forums > is: DO NOT USE THE GRAPHICAL INSTALLER! -so why ship it, if it's ~?) > Minor glitches like having to reformat a clean partition do not look > like "braindead" to me. The Slackware installer, that's just braindead > imho (even if I have fun using it).
I hate the gentoo graphical installer with all my guts. IMHO it is just wrong ... > > > I don't love debian - it is just a distribution - and I am annoyed by > > hype. Any kind of hype. I remember very well the hype around Mandrake (I > > got almost insane, when I tried it. Lots and lots of sugarly cute > > graphics and colours and no obvious way to turn it off...), I have seen > > the smaller hype around lindows, I luckily joined gentoo before the hype > > and I have seen ubuntu beeing hyped and reported as the 'bestest' > > distribution of all time, before they even released anything. > > First *buntu releases were not 'bestest'. From 6.06 onward, it is at > least in the first 3 places, for me. no ubuntu release was 'the bestest distro ever' - except when you read all that stuff that was and is written with every release... > > > from my POV (you are free to see it differently) ubuntu is not > > userfriendly, it is idiot friendly. > > That's GNOME. Use KDE, and it won't be idiot friendly anymore. Kubuntu > KDE doesn't look that much different from my KDE on Gentoo, apart it's > configured a little better. I tried Kubuntu... but I don't only look after the desktop - and it was the completly package. Boot, installer, sudo, that really got me... angry. > > By the way: I'd love to know how is kpdf patched. I use kpdf at work > with Kubuntu and here on Gentoo, and they look pretty identical. I'm > sure you're right: I just don't know what are the differences. I am too lazy to use google right now but this should give you are starting point (and also explain why kubuntu's and gentoo's kpdf are so similar - in b0rkiness) http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/01/28/today-in-gentoos-kde-land -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
