[ale] more on RedHat's Null desktop

Bill Sirinek bill at sirinek.com
Tue Sep 17 13:02:38 EDT 2002


No doubt, a lot of us make a living being a cube drone, which in turn finances 
our computer hobbies (among other less important things)

;-)

Bill

On Tuesday 17 September 2002 11:31, Matt Smith wrote:
> Hey, take it easy on the cube drone bashing...  :)
>
> --Matt
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stuffed Crust [mailto:pizza at shaftnet.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 11:25 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] more on RedHat's Null desktop
>
> On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 09:44:36AM -0400, Jim wrote:
> > their crippled offerings of KDE in the past don't bode well for the
>
> outcome
>
> > of this. I'm planning a move to SuSe. The link is here:
>
> How have they "crippled" their KDE offerings?
>
> Since KDE/Qt moved to a Free license, that is.
>
> Your choice of words implies deliberate "let's make it suck" action,
> while the reality is more along the lines of "we'll spend more time on
> Gnome as that's more important to us"
>
> All of this hooplah is over a set of *themes*.  If you don't like 'em,
> it's perfectly straightforward to revert to the "classic" KDE or Gnome
> look and feel.  RedHat isn't aiming for the power user, they're aiming
> for the corporate desktop and cube drones that don't have an original
> thought in their heads.
>
>  - Pizza


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