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Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in"

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First post2016-01-18 08:11 -0800
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  Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Big Bad Bob <BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local> - 2016-01-18 08:11 -0800
    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-18 10:34 -0600
      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-18 20:21 -0800
        Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-19 00:42 -0600
          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-18 23:04 -0800
            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-19 01:13 -0600
              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-19 19:49 -0800
    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-18 17:42 +0100
      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Big Bad Bob <BigBadBob-at-mrp3-dot-com@testing.local> - 2016-01-18 16:45 -0800
        Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 20:03 -0500
          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-18 22:35 -0800
            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-18 22:36 -0800
          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" mechanic <mechanic@example.net> - 2016-01-19 12:08 +0000
            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-19 08:46 -0600
              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-19 20:05 -0800
                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-20 07:40 -0600
                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-20 08:43 -0800
                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-20 11:57 -0500
    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-20 10:57 +0000
      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 10:47 -0500
        Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-20 19:49 +0000
          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-20 14:31 -0600
            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-21 02:58 +0000
          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 16:07 -0500
            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-21 03:00 +0000
              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2016-01-21 16:28 +0100
            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-21 03:01 +0000
              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-20 23:45 -0500
                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-20 21:10 -0800
                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 00:52 -0500
                    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-20 23:07 -0800
                      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 09:05 -0500
                      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-21 06:16 -0800
                    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-21 06:08 -0800
                      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-21 09:15 -0600
                        Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 10:48 -0500
                          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-21 08:01 -0800
                            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 12:56 -0500
                              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-21 12:35 -0600
                            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-21 12:27 -0600
                              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-21 12:38 -0600
                                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-22 00:16 -0800
                                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-22 14:40 -0600
                              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-21 23:03 -0500
                                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" mike <ham789@netzero.net> - 2016-01-22 00:38 -0800
                                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-22 09:18 -0500
                                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-22 09:19 -0500
                                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-22 09:21 -0500
                                    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-22 19:57 +0100
                              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-22 00:11 -0800
                                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-25 10:52 -0600
                                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-25 17:05 -0600
                                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-27 21:42 -0800
                                    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-28 08:24 -0600
                                      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" DecadentLinuxUserNumeroUno <DLU1@DecadentLinuxUser.org> - 2016-01-28 10:24 -0500
                                        Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-28 11:07 -0600
                                      Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-28 20:13 -0800
                                        Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-28 23:17 -0600
                                          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-29 10:46 -0500
                                            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-29 10:24 -0600
                          Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-21 08:28 -0800
                            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2016-01-21 18:36 +0100
                              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-21 10:48 -0800
                            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2016-01-21 12:32 -0600
                            Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-22 00:33 -0800
                              Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> - 2016-01-22 02:16 -0800
                                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" stepore <linshine@here.now> - 2016-01-22 23:25 -0800
                Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com> - 2016-01-21 07:21 +0000
                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-01-21 08:32 +0100
                    Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" Harold Stevens <wookie@cindy.localdomain> - 2016-01-21 06:02 -0600
                  Re: Ubu makes 'adware' search thing "opt in" "Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com> - 2016-01-21 09:08 -0500

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#186448

FromMarek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com>
Date2016-01-21 08:28 -0800
Message-ID<S6ednWYzN8yqmjzLnZ2dnUU7-fmdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#186445
On 2016-01-21, Jonathan N. Little <lws4art@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 06:08:48 -0800
>> Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I think Canonical needs to decide what it wants.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure that bird has flown; they want business business, not
>> user business.  There's no money in simple users of /anything/ and lots
>> of it in business.  Mark wants more money, not less, and has yet to
>> figure out a good way to monetize Linux for the users.
>>
>
> So. A lot of products and services that consumers enjoy are byproducts 
> of things developed for businesses with main profits derived from 
> businesses. Quite evident from the 2-tiered pricing.

Absolutely, that's how we get most everything. And Canonical needs to
break even or make a profit. They do a lot of good work. I mention Juju
because RED HAT had to buy Ansible for $150 million to
jump-start competition over Juju created by Canonical which is already
very popular. Canonical is truly a force in Cloud. They got in early on
and they have been a leading force. 

I also believe Canonical likely got a lot of people to consider Linux on
the desktop. Not saying they are the first, but they did make a very
friendly Linux for the desktop and made it popular. 

I actually like what Canonical does. I appreciate that they even took a
stab at making a phone and a tablet at all. I want a Linux phone and
tablet. I doubt Red Hat will ever give me one. Someone needs to at least
start such a thing to get it going and Canonical has done that. 

I just wish they'd really commit some heavy resources to it. This is a
product I very much want to have. 

>> Ubuntu ain't doing it whether on phones or computers.
>
> For phone you have a point, not sure about computers.
>
>>
>> Besides, if he focuses on users he gets users such as me who call him
>> out on the bullsnit he spews.  He really doesn't like that.
>
> Why must all distros conform to your specifications? I thought Linux was 
> all about choice? What is wrong with a distro experimenting with a 
> different approach?

+1

I've always felt that good ideas will float. Bad ideas will sink. Giving
everyone another choice is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Pouring
tens of millions of his own money into Linux related development is a
good thing. 

-- 
Marek Novotny
https://github.com/marek-novotny

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#186450

From"Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl>
Date2016-01-21 18:36 +0100
Message-ID<56a1171a$0$23805$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>
In reply to#186448
Op 21-01-16 om 17:28 wrote Marek Novotny:


> Absolutely, that's how we get most everything. And Canonical needs to
> break even or make a profit. They do a lot of good work. I mention Juju
> because RED HAT had to buy Ansible for $150 million to
> jump-start competition over Juju created by Canonical which is already
> very popular. Canonical is truly a force in Cloud. They got in early on
> and they have been a leading force.
>
> I also believe Canonical likely got a lot of people to consider Linux on
> the desktop. Not saying they are the first, but they did make a very
> friendly Linux for the desktop and made it popular.
>
> I actually like what Canonical does. I appreciate that they even took a
> stab at making a phone and a tablet at all. I want a Linux phone and
> tablet. I doubt Red Hat will ever give me one. Someone needs to at least
> start such a thing to get it going and Canonical has done that.
>
> I just wish they'd really commit some heavy resources to it. This is a
> product I very much want to have.
>
Indeed, Canonical has been one of the prominent forces behind the 
development of another useful Linux distro.

Mark might not always be a 'nice' person, I specifically think of his 
alterations with Jonathan Riddell.

I appreciate he has to make money out of this venture but I don't 
believe it's going to be easier by upsetting the lead man of what 
started as the 'other' Ubuntu distro.

And it's already many years ago the Nokia n900 was a very promising 
Linux phone so I dearly hope the Ubuntu one becomes an example for other 
developers on how to get free of the Google stable.

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#186456

FromMarek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com>
Date2016-01-21 10:48 -0800
Message-ID<6tKdndsLUveEtTzLnZ2dnUU7-Q-dnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#186450
On 2016-01-21, Dirk T. Verbeek <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Op 21-01-16 om 17:28 wrote Marek Novotny:
>
>
>> Absolutely, that's how we get most everything. And Canonical needs to
>> break even or make a profit. They do a lot of good work. I mention Juju
>> because RED HAT had to buy Ansible for $150 million to
>> jump-start competition over Juju created by Canonical which is already
>> very popular. Canonical is truly a force in Cloud. They got in early on
>> and they have been a leading force.
>>
>> I also believe Canonical likely got a lot of people to consider Linux on
>> the desktop. Not saying they are the first, but they did make a very
>> friendly Linux for the desktop and made it popular.
>>
>> I actually like what Canonical does. I appreciate that they even took a
>> stab at making a phone and a tablet at all. I want a Linux phone and
>> tablet. I doubt Red Hat will ever give me one. Someone needs to at least
>> start such a thing to get it going and Canonical has done that.
>>
>> I just wish they'd really commit some heavy resources to it. This is a
>> product I very much want to have.
>>
> Indeed, Canonical has been one of the prominent forces behind the 
> development of another useful Linux distro.
>
> Mark might not always be a 'nice' person, I specifically think of his 
> alterations with Jonathan Riddell.
>
> I appreciate he has to make money out of this venture but I don't 
> believe it's going to be easier by upsetting the lead man of what 
> started as the 'other' Ubuntu distro.
>
> And it's already many years ago the Nokia n900 was a very promising 
> Linux phone so I dearly hope the Ubuntu one becomes an example for other 
> developers on how to get free of the Google stable.

I like that you mentioned Google. See I don't want Google watching me.
I'd rather have an iPhone that have Google watching me. Apple didn't
give us a file system within the phone though. They appear to have a
semi functional work around where App A can save a file to DropBox and
app B can see drop box, and so you have a pseudo file system repo. Not
perfect, but it's better than nothing. I like the way Android just has a
file system. If Apple did that I'd be all over it. 

Ultimately I want an open source phone. I don't want Google watching me
and I don't want the closed nature of Apple. 

-- 
Marek Novotny
https://github.com/marek-novotny

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#186453

From"Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid>
Date2016-01-21 12:32 -0600
Message-ID<20160121123209.21fb1d2e@wizardstower.lan>
In reply to#186448
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 08:28:39 -0800
Marek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com> wrote:

> I want a Linux phone and
> tablet.

The Pengpod showed that it was easily possible for a tablet and using
Lubuntu. I can't see it being that much more difficult for
a phone.

It's too bad they underpowered the Pengpod and didn't go into bigger
production.  Mine is still going strong, but is kind of slow, even on
the Android side

Cybe R. Wizard
-- 
Registered GNU/Linux user # 126326
Registered Ubuntu User (deprecated) # 2136

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#186471

Fromstepore <linshine@here.now>
Date2016-01-22 00:33 -0800
Message-ID<n7spbh$vt2$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#186448
On 01/21/2016 08:28 AM, Marek Novotny wrote:
> I actually like what Canonical does. I appreciate that they even took a
> stab at making a phone and a tablet at all. I want a Linux phone and
> tablet. I doubt Red Hat will ever give me one. Someone needs to at least
> start such a thing to get it going and Canonical has done that.
>

RedHat will never /give/ you anything. Never. Ever. Again ;)

But seriously, well said and +1

> I've always felt that good ideas will float. Bad ideas will sink. Giving
> everyone another choice is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Pouring
> tens of millions of his own money into Linux related development is a
> good thing.
>

++1

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#186473

FromMarek Novotny <marek.novotny@marspolar.com>
Date2016-01-22 02:16 -0800
Message-ID<eNudnZJc_9QanD_LnZ2dnUU7-fWdnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#186471
On 2016-01-22, stepore <linshine@here.now> wrote:
> On 01/21/2016 08:28 AM, Marek Novotny wrote:
>> I actually like what Canonical does. I appreciate that they even took a
>> stab at making a phone and a tablet at all. I want a Linux phone and
>> tablet. I doubt Red Hat will ever give me one. Someone needs to at least
>> start such a thing to get it going and Canonical has done that.
>>
>
> RedHat will never /give/ you anything. Never. Ever. Again ;)

Well, I appreciate Red Hat as well. Though that is an unpopular thing to
say. But they did buy ceph and other cloud related startups for hundreds
of millions and then gave it all to open source. Some will knock them
for things they've done a decade ago. I wasn't there. What I see them
doing day impresses me. And I mean that seriously. I am very impressed
with them. I could easily switch to CentOS and pay nothing. But I still
pay for annual subscriptions, now in my second year and I am fine with
it. The few times I did need support they went above and beyond working
with me until the problems were solved. Lots of back and forth emails,
sending files, escalating my issue and just, bang bang bang, getting it
done to my satisfaction. I'm on self support but no body cared. They
just solve my problem when I have one. 

Canonical also has paid support. I am sure they'd likely do the same. I
like paid support. I like knowing that if I have an issue there is
someone I can talk to who can fix it. 

> But seriously, well said and +1
>
>> I've always felt that good ideas will float. Bad ideas will sink. Giving
>> everyone another choice is not a bad thing, it's a good thing. Pouring
>> tens of millions of his own money into Linux related development is a
>> good thing.
>>
>
> ++1

Thank you. I don't agree too much with disparaging Ubuntu here. Others
are free to do as they please. It's not moderated so that is going to
happen. But I'd rather make progress on learning and/or sharing things
I've learned than waste my time being negative. Believe me, I'm all
happy because I found a new command, fold, and got some use out of it in
my script. I'd rather talk about the fold command. Maybe someone else
could benefit from it. Maybe someone will clue me in on some cool
commands I can use. That's the kind of posts I want to read. 

At this point when I come in here it says 25 new posts, but then my
score file kicks in and knocks that down to 4 new posts. 21 will be
killed because there is more negativity than content. It's a waste of
effort. Screaming about Ubuntu here accomplishes nothing. As I have said
before. I'm not an advocate, I'm a user. I'm not here to convince anyone
to switch to Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat, etc. I'm here to pick the smart
people's brains and benefit from their experience. And I am more than
happy to pay it forward when and if I can. 

You know what makes me smile today? I've spent all day changing my
habit from hitting the escape key in Vim to instead using just ctrl-{
which puts me back in normal mode from insert mode. And I am retraining
myself to switch back to normal mode as soon as I am done typing, and
then using nothing but hjkl to move around. That's the kind of geek
stuff I like and get excited over. I'm still enjoying Vim. I'd rather
talk about that then be negative. 

negative people tend to stay negative and attract others whom are also
negative. It's not an accomplishment. It's not going to teach me
anything of value. 
-- 
Marek Novotny
https://github.com/marek-novotny

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#186515

Fromstepore <linshine@here.now>
Date2016-01-22 23:25 -0800
Message-ID<n7v9oa$oad$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#186473
On 01/22/2016 02:16 AM, Marek Novotny wrote:

> Well, I appreciate Red Hat as well. Though that is an unpopular thing to
> say. But they did buy ceph and other cloud related startups for hundreds
> of millions and then gave it all to open source. Some will knock them
> for things they've done a decade ago. I wasn't there.

I was there and it felt like the biggest betrayal when they essentially 
closed off RH proper and made it Enterprise. My original training was on 
RH; have never used it since. Although, I do still absolutely love CentOS.

> Canonical also has paid support. I am sure they'd likely do the same. I
> like paid support. I like knowing that if I have an issue there is
> someone I can talk to who can fix it.

Agreed, and I have absolutely no issue with RH's business model now with 
paid support. I'm fully on board with paying for good work. Just not 
sure why they needed to essentially close off the distro to the 
community? They could have left it like Canonical, have only one OS, 
allow anyone to download/install the OS free of charge and have anyone 
who wants/needs support to pay for it. That would have be fine and the 
community wouldn't have come down on them so badly.

> You know what makes me smile today? I've spent all day changing my
> habit from hitting the escape key in Vim to instead using just ctrl-{
> which puts me back in normal mode from insert mode.

Ctrl+c works too. Many of my colleagues (who still use nano) would 
always use as an excuse that they hated vim because Esc was too 
unnatural and would force your hands off the keyboard's home row, didn't 
know about either key combination. No more excuses ;)

>
> negative people tend to stay negative and attract others whom are also
> negative. It's not an accomplishment. It's not going to teach me
> anything of value.
>

Agreed. And thanks again for all you share and add to this NG.

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#186434

From"E. Robinson" <E.Robinson@merck.com>
Date2016-01-21 07:21 +0000
Message-ID<n7q0ui$f01$1@news.mixmin.net>
In reply to#186428
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:45:33 -0500, Jonathan N. Little wrote:

> You can even get it reconfigured with Kubuntu

Since I currently "know" Ubuntu 14.04 + KDE, what would be *different*
with Kubuntu + KDE?

Isn't it practically the same?
Or is there a major difference?

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#186435

FromAragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid>
Date2016-01-21 08:32 +0100
Message-ID<n7q1cd$m98$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#186434
On Thursday 21 Jan 2016 08:21, E. Robinson conveyed the following to 
alt.os.linux.ubuntu...

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:45:33 -0500, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
> 
>> You can even get it reconfigured with Kubuntu
> 
> Since I currently "know" Ubuntu 14.04 + KDE, what would be *different*
> with Kubuntu + KDE?
> 
> Isn't it practically the same?

Practically, yes.

> Or is there a major difference?

No /major/ differences, but Kubuntu proper is a bit more "tailored" 
toward the use of KDE as a desktop environment.  In other words, it may 
contain more additional KDE-specific utilities and artwork, and perhaps 
─ but this I do not know for certain ─ also a lit less emphasis on GTK-
specific tools.  (GTK is the widget library set used by GNOME, Unity, 
XFCE and LXDE.)

In overall, I would say that Kubuntu is a bit more "integrated" on 
account of KDE-specific software than Ubuntu with KDE added on.

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#186437

FromHarold Stevens <wookie@cindy.localdomain>
Date2016-01-21 06:02 -0600
Message-ID<slrnna1i7f.4cf.wookie@cindy.localdomain>
In reply to#186435
In <n7q1cd$m98$1@dont-email.me> Aragorn:

[Snip...]

> I would say that Kubuntu is a bit more "integrated"

+1

I find it most convenient to order a Kubuntu pre-packaged from a
reputable distributor, than muck around with "upgrading" a basic
server install (or another DE like Unity) to a KDE environment.

It's what I plan to do when 16.04 LTS is released this spring. I
think it's worth the modest cost if you're interested in getting
on with using a desktop environment, rather than tinkering. :)

FWIW, I'm very satisfied with this vendor, years now:

https://www.osdisc.com/products/kubuntu

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#186440

From"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@gmail.com>
Date2016-01-21 09:08 -0500
Message-ID<n7qoja$77a$2@dont-email.me>
In reply to#186434
E. Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 23:45:33 -0500, Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>
>> You can even get it reconfigured with Kubuntu
>
> Since I currently "know" Ubuntu 14.04 + KDE, what would be *different*
> with Kubuntu + KDE?
>
> Isn't it practically the same?
> Or is there a major difference?
>

I may have confused with my typo PREconfigured with Kubuntu. With 
Kubuntu you do not have any of the GNOME/Unity duplicate components. And 
there is no extra step of install another DE.

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