[ale] Greetings Carbon Units!

[Scott Castaline]

On 05/05/2011 06:10 AM, Richard Faulkner wrote:
> Feedback!  Yes, please on 11.04 and F15.  Many changes for which I'm 
> very curious (and will test install myself as soon as I can) but 
> curious to hear reports and thoughts of ya'll.    RinL
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From*: Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com 
> <mailto:Jim%20Kinney%20%3cjim.kinney at gmail.com%3e>>
> *Reply-to*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> *To*: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org 
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> *Subject*: Re: [ale] Greetings Carbon Units!
> *Date*: Thu, 5 May 2011 00:15:37 -0400
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> The reviews I've seen mixed on the interface. A few stunds where I 
> work have poked in a vm and were ok but not thrilled with it.
> I'm testing fedora 15 beta in a few days with gnome3. I'll post my 
> opnion when I do.
> Welcome back!
>
> On May 4, 2011 9:45 PM, "Raj Wurttemberg" <rajaw at c64.us 
> <mailto:rajaw at c64.us>> wrote:
> > A 07 will be just fine (Salute. a.k.a. o7 haha!) for the new guy.
> >
> > Toying around with this new Ubuntu 11.04 on a test system.... still 
> not quite sure what to think of the new UI. Sadly I feel more isolated 
> from the programs than in OS X.
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > -=Raj=-
> >
> > From: ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org> 
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Faulkner
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2011 9:30 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Greetings Carbon Units!
> >
> > Welcome aboard! Would a 755 do or do you wish a different permission?
> >
> > Rich in Lilburn
> >
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I had tested the Live Alpha F15 version for the ATI video test. I have 
the HD 5770 video card so Gnome3 shell did work fine. It is very 
different in that the desktop icons that we may have all been familiar 
with are no longer there. The menu system changed in that instead of a 
drop down menu it displays all apps in that category as icons spread out 
through your desktop. It takes a little getting used to but it is pretty 
simple to figure out the workings of it once you play with it. I have 
recently installed the Beta version as a VM using Fedora's/Red Hat KVM 
which does not provide video capable of dealing with the Gnome3 Shell so 
it uses the Fall Back Gnome3 Desktop which seems to be a cross between 
the more familiar Gnome Desktop in an updated form and the Gnome3 Shell.

I'm not sure if I like either one yet, but I think I could very well 
adapt to it and you youngsters out there will probably take to it 
quickly and may even like it right away. That is just my initial 
impression of the 2 versions and have not gone to in depth  of my 
experimentation yet. I do plan on setting up a dual boot setup with F14 
and F15 Beta, temporarily to see how it interacts with my media and data 
from the F14 system. So far though it has not crash & burned like some 
early versions of other OSs, and there are definitely some neat 
enhancements on F15 that I need to explore some more.

As far as Ubuntu goes, I stopped being an Ubuntu fan sometime back, but 
with all of the recent scuttlebutt about the new UI I may try it on a VM 
just to get somewhat an idea what it's all about.