GNOME is a case in point. GNOME 3 is so radically different that they may
get more backlash than they expect or people may just quietly migrate to
something else. Anybody who uses GNOME and likes it is bound to be upset, as
they are like night and day. If they assumed that GNOME was popular because
people liked it then they had to see that changing it radically woud be an
unpopular move. Unity has always been Unity, but GNOME 3 is not GNOME as we
know it. It is more different than KDE 3 was from KDE 4 by a long shot. But
I digress. This just shows that community driven projects can get
sidetracked in ways that the community don't expect and decisions are made
that they may well not like in the end.
Thanks for all of the help on UUIDs. I have not solved it. I am going on
holiday for a week so will take another stab at it when I get back. Today is
packing day then the computer will be shut off till I get back. It will be
mid March by then and hopefully the little snow that we have will be gone
and Spring will be just around the corner. Can you tell that I am not a
winter person?
Roy
Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada
On 5 March 2011 23:34, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 05, 2011 at 10:28:03PM -0000, Paul wrote:
> >
> >
> > I can't stand grub2 and haven't really delved into it too much. I should.
> Because right after I have it all figured out they'll roll out grub3!
> >
> A lot of people, including myself, share your opinion. I understand the
> logic of completely rewriting, rather than trying to fix old code, but
> they took the good things about it--one simple config file, now several
> files where one has to search for the right one to edit to change
> entries--a file that seems to change between distributions--and of
> course, now, after making changes, there's something else that has to be
> run--I remember they used to mention the advantage over lilo of not
> having to run any commands after changes.
>
> Typical of the new Linux method. Whereas they used to follow the Unix
> philosophy, one simple thing to do one task and do it well, it's now
> more the Windows/Apple philosophy of let's hide it under pretty GUIs and
> have it do all sorts of things.
>
> On the plus side, when it works, it's more convenient--on the minus
> side, well, it is far less robust and more difficult to troubleshoot.
>
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
> PGP keyID EB3467D6
> ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 )
> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
> Willow: You're thinking too much. Maybe you need to be
> impulsive.
> Buffy: Impulsive? Do you remember my ex-boyfriend? The vampire? I
> slept
> with him, he lost his soul, and now my boyfriend's gone forever and
> the demon
> that wears his face is killing my friends. The next impulsive decision
> I make will
> be my choice of dentures.
> Willow: Okay. The Angel thing went badly. I'm on board with that.
>
>
>
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