Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: B1ll Gat3s Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Ubunto Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:42:10 -0400 Organization: 0wnz0ring j00r b0x s1nce 1987 Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <9fovtmF8gaU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: j+yFUrb81ZsBd0sEvUfwkQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: tin/1.6.2-20030910 ("Pabbay") (UNIX) (CYGWIN_NT-6.0/1.5.22(0.156/4/2) (i686)) Hamster/2.0.2.2 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8826 On 15/10/2011 8:21 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > 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. [etc. etc. etc. in a similar vein regarding F16] Missing the point that it's open source, so if you really, really prefer G2 to G3 you can always fix up G2 yourself to work on these. But it's also very likely that the Gnome folks will address the complaints about G3 -- and, if they don't, that people will eventually fork G3 and make a "no pet peeves" version of that. -- A fatal exception 0E has occurred at 0028:C0011E36 in VXD VMM(01) 00010E36. The current application will be terminated. * Press any key to terminate the current application.