[ale] I really incredibly exponentially hate ubuntu unity

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Wed May 16 07:07:14 EDT 2012


On 05/15/2012 04:05 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 16:00 -0400, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> It's top post Tuesday....
>
>> Enlightenment.  Build it from source.
>
> Why build it from source?
>
> "yum install e16"

On Centos with epel:

[root at centosvm esoteric]# yum install e16
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
  * base: mirrors.lga7.us.voxel.net
  * epel: archive.linux.duke.edu
  * extras: centos.mbni.med.umich.edu
  * updates: mirror.5ninesolutions.com
base                                                     | 1.1 kB 
00:00
epel                                                     | 3.4 kB 
00:00
extras                                                   | 2.1 kB 
00:00
updates                                                  | 1.9 kB 
00:00
Setting up Install Process
No package e16 available.
Nothing to do

>
> :-P
>
> Regards,
> Mike
>
>> On 05/15/2012 01:34 PM, Sparr wrote:
>>> The exceptionally premature adoption of kde 4.1 by most distros is what
>>> drove me to convert from kde to gnome a few years ago. Unity has driven
>>> me back to kde and I'm almost as happy with the latest kde as I was
>>> prior to 4.0
>>>
>>> On May 15, 2012 1:16 PM, "William Bagwell"<rb211 at tds.net
>>> <mailto:rb211 at tds.net>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>      On Tuesday 15 May 2012, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
>>>       >snip (21 point rant)
>>>       >  Any help and advice is appreciated.
>>>
>>>      Can offer nothing more than condolances. What you so eloquently describe
>>>      mirrors my brief experience with KDE 4.X and explains why I am still
>>>      using a *four year old* distro as my daily desktop.
>>>
>>>      Waiting for some kind soul to port Trinity to Mandriva so I can
>>>      upgrade...
>>>      --
>>>      William
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>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
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>> the pretense of taking care of them."
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-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson


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