uiks, me also don't know that fedora has implemeted KDE as it's default, missed the good old days since fedora core 1

#instant noodle yooo, The Foot also not my type but I am so keen to see the Gnome 3 preview. At first I read that the Gnome 3 will be release around this october 2010 but yesterday the gnome's developer announce that the final release would be on july next year. haiyaaa.

~.~ hate the foot logo
n yeah Fedora's default is KDE. and the distros now mostly got choice of GNOME/KDE so its reli up to ur choice

Well, it all depends on our choice

While I find KDE visually pleasing to the eyes, but for those who like keeping things simple yet attractive GNOME is a good choice, and is the main reason I am using both KDE and GNOME here. Apart from that GNOME also seems to give a visual value of a conducive work environment

that's my opinion though. may vary for other people

i did tried gnome one, loooong time ago when FC is still RH. then there was that pale to the ground KDE and gnome with the foot logo... and that lecturer was bashing my bash code either written in 1 long line

then when i visited RH again years later just to see the foot turned into a hat... with annoying RH Network button blinking...

but i did attempt visiting gnome again thru zenwalk, well, it's still the same but it's more customizable... (on work place thru vm, just... dun tell my boss... )

i can't help it...

it's big and it's ugly and full of gaps... well... compared with KDE in that time...

just leave the distro behind (yeah, u know whut i'm gonna yell when comes to that...), how about xfce?? it's like mixing and stirring both KDE and gnome together and i find it... disturbing... but i like it's simplistic menu...


edit: i've given back to that lecturer all those i learnt doing that time, starting from ground 0 again

This post has been edited by Instant_noodle: Aug 16 2010, 09:40 PM

Xfce is almost forgotten I guess, but LXDE now is getting popular due to its lightweight de. From the screenshot I would say LXDE is mini KDE.



http://lxde.org/lxde

opps sorry TS, we terhack your thread for a while

This post has been edited by powerwoot: Aug 16 2010, 10:12 PM

i had started a new topic to discuss bout desktop environment..
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/1528560

Linux is not UNIX period. UNIX is proprietary OS(most of them) which derive from either from Berkeley strain or AT&T or System V. Linux is otherwise is freshly written OS kernel by Torvalds and communities and licenses as Open Source. However Linux and UNIX do has similar look and feel due to POSIX compliant.

Most of C program written in UNIX can't be easily ported directly into Linux without re-compilation and vise versa. Today, it is UNIX that tries to mimic Linux, for example OpenSolaris project... only my 2 cents

This post has been edited by teknokrasi: Aug 17 2010, 11:15 AM

From what I (think I) know:
- Linux systems can be considered clones of UNIX.
- Most UNIX are commercial, most Linux distros are free and open source.
- Technically, UNIX usually refers to the entire OS, but Linux is really just the kernel.
- The file systems used in Linux are usually ext3 or ext4 in general. In UNIX, it's usually ufs or zfs (go try Solaris), jfs or gpfs, hfs or vxfs, etc.
- The popular Linux distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, etc) are usually more user-friendly than UNIX systems (Mac OS X is an exception).

More info: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/libr...-difflinux.html

I've been using Linux for such a long time and was totally not aware of this matter...

During the 2009 FOSS.MY, a very famous person in the free and open source community, Richard Stallman, the founder of GNU ( GNU Not Unix / http://www.gnu.org/ ) explains clearly about this...

Linux should be called GNU/Linux instead of just Linux to give the credit to all the other contributors components in the operating system ( vi, cat, more, man, Xfree, gcc... )..

This is a bit of history of GNU/Linux for those that are interested...

yeah, linux should be called GNU/Linux.. but its already like a budaya that everyone just called it Linux.. haihh..

true but what to do.

I know that, but I guess most people prefer to call it just "Linux" in favor of convenience (of not having to pronounce the extra letters before Linux... )

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Aug 25 2010, 04:34 AM

d00ds, how do you all pronounced GNU/Linux ?
i pronounced it as 'g-noo lee-nucks' but its always just 'lee-nucks'

I always finds it funny a lot of ppl pronounce it as "lee-nix" instead of "lee nucks.."

then again the American as "Lye" "Nucks"..

But nowdays, it all about branding branding, no more linux..... Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Centos, Redhat, Suse....

my lecturer for UNIX system administrator also pronounce linux as "lee-nix" and i wondering why not "lee nucks"?
so i assume he was right since he has so many experiences(born and work at IBM in US and move to australia become lecturer)

actually, linus torvalds pronounce linux as "lee-nucks".. but most of people just pronounce it as "lee-nucks", "lee-nooks", "lee-nouks" or "lye-nucks".. but whatever its is, as long as its linux, its fine with me.. its bout slang isnt it


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yeah most people i know calls it lie-nucks



This post has been edited by zenix: Aug 29 2010, 07:43 PM

i like gnome rather then kde

most do especially when starting out with easy to use ubuntu

I m a CLI person as most of my linux are on embedded board like Soekris board access via ssh..

My GUI is Mac OSX / Aqua interface .. best of both world.. unix based OS and nice mac interface..