Hi all, while I think that the discussion has elements that are partly paranoid, I feel it might be worthwhile to put the issue on one of the upcoming meetings agenda. I'd like to know what the differences in GNOME among distributions might be, and if and how these differences are perceived by the audiences. Furthermore I'd like Vuntz's opinion on the topic, as he should have a pretty good picture from his upstream background. Have a lot of fun... Casual P.S. I didn't chose openSuSE for the desktop, I decided on GNOME for the heck of it and independently found openSuSE the distribution to go with for various reasons...
Hi Casual,
while I think that the discussion has elements that are partly paranoid,
You should at least explain which ones. Said in this way it doesn't help and it just feeds the impressions someone has.
I'd like to know what the differences in GNOME among distributions might be, and if and how these differences are perceived by the audiences.
This topic has already been discussed many times. What might clarify that is a _honest_ comparison of the main two-three distributions founded on GNOME (fedora, ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS). The difference I find are summed up in my first message in this thread (performance/responsiveness, customizations, patch policies, dependencies, ...). Regards, A. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Hi Alberto, Thanks for commenting.
while I think that the discussion has elements that are partly paranoid,
You should at least explain which ones. Said in this way it doesn't help and it just feeds the impressions someone has.
I don't think that _is_ necessary, everybody has digested the various comments in the thread, and I'd rather quench this kind of discussion than fuel it.
I'd like to know what the differences in GNOME among distributions might be, and if and how these differences are perceived by the audiences.
This topic has already been discussed many times. What might clarify that is a _honest_ comparison of the main two-three distributions founded on GNOME >(fedora, ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS).
The difference I find are summed up in my first message in this thread (performance/responsiveness, customizations, patch policies, dependencies, ...).
OK, thanks for your perception, how about having some others ? Have a lot of fun... Casual -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Hi Casual,
I don't think that _is_ necessary, everybody has digested the various comments in the thread, and I'd rather quench this kind of discussion than fuel it.
That's OK. But you judged without explaining.
OK, thanks for your perception, how about having some others ?
It is a bit hard to have many opinions because not many community users are involved or willing to be involved. That's why I suggested an objective comparison of the distributions (something already discussed right before 11.0 release). As pointed out, it's not going to be easy if you want a fair comparison, because it means that a set of independent users should try them on the same machine, comparing various aspects, some of which are subjective. Regards, Alberto -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Le mercredi 30 juillet 2008, à 10:23 +0200, Casual J. Programmer a écrit :
Hi all,
while I think that the discussion has elements that are partly paranoid, I feel it might be worthwhile to put the issue on one of the upcoming meetings agenda.
I'd like to know what the differences in GNOME among distributions might be, and if and how these differences are perceived by the audiences.
Furthermore I'd like Vuntz's opinion on the topic, as he should have a pretty good picture from his upstream background.
Not really sure why my opinion matters (especially since, well, as long as I have GNOME, I can be happy ;-)). Anyway, my personal opinion is that there's not that much difference on a technical point of view between all distributions when it comes to GNOME. The main differences are polish (including artwork, eg) and the default applications. Also note that we're all starting to do more and more things upstream, which should mean, in the end, that we're all going to be even more similar from the technical point of view. Which is a good thing. FWIW, I think we're doing a good job with the polish (although we still have some bugs), but I'm not really happy with the default applications (that's part of the pattern topic that Magnus is working on) -- if it were only me, I'd kill many packages on the default install ;-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
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