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Re: Ubuntu

From Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Ubuntu
Date 2011-10-17 00:32 +0100
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2011, Roedy Green wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 12:21:27 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
> <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>> On Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:16:47 -0400, B1ll Gat3s wrote:
>>
>>> Just because it's no longer available at the same time as the OS with a
>>> one-stop shop doesn't mean it's impossible to get and install it,
>>> period, you know.
>>>
>> Maybe, maybe not.
>>
>> I've read, from more than one source, that G2 will no longer work on
>> Ubuntu, hence its removal though admittedly this also has a lot to do
>> with the Ubuntu folks deciding they hated G3 and going off down the Unify
>> track: maybe they've decided that Unify is now stable enough that
>> alternatives aren't needed.
>>
>> With F16 Fedora moves to Kernel 3.x and completes its transition from
>> using System V init to control boot-up and services to using systemd. As
>> a result systemctl replaces 'service'. This in turn means that the daemon
>> scripts in /etc/init.d become toast and are replaced by systemd service
>> unit definitions. With G2 no longer being maintained (not that gnome.org
>> was doing much to support it for the last year or two) and the relatively
>> large number of fundamental changes going into F16 I wouldn't be
>> surprised if it stops working under F16 too. At a minimum, a lot of stuff
>> in the 'System' menu won't work any more.
>
> I am a puzzled by the Unix folk having so many ways of handling the
> GUI.  I have heard of Gnome 1 2 3, KDE, X-Windows, Xfce, Unify

Unix folk have so many ways of handling everything! Count the numbers of 
mail daemons, text editors, web servers, pagers, mail clients, package 
managers ...

> When you write a C program do you have to pick one? or do they share a 
> common core API?

Not on your nelly.

tom

-- 
So the moon is approximately 24 toasters from Scunthorpe.

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              Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-15 15:59 +0000
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                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-15 16:48 +0000
                Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-15 15:45 -0400
                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 00:17 +0000
                Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-16 23:40 +0100
                Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 23:50 +0000
              Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-15 15:46 -0400
                Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-16 23:44 +0100
                Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-16 20:41 -0400
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      Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 11:22 +0000
        Re: Ubunto Arved Sandstrom <asandstrom3minus1@eastlink.ca> - 2011-10-16 10:58 -0300
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  Re: Ubunto Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-13 22:54 -0400
  Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-14 14:20 +0100
    Re: Ubunto Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-10-15 13:04 -0700
      Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-16 01:03 +0000
        Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 00:31 +0100
          Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 00:29 +0000
            Re: Ubunto Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-10-16 22:03 -0400
              Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 15:08 +0100
              Re: Ubunto Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2011-10-17 21:29 +0000
            Re: Ubunto Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li> - 2011-10-17 16:47 +0100
          Re: Ubunto B1ll Gat3s <wm.g4t3s@m1cr0s0f7.c0m> - 2011-10-16 20:55 -0400
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