Looking back at 2004

Looking back at 2004

Posted Dec 28, 2004 10:08 UTC (Tue) by csamuel (subscriber, #2624)
Parent article: Looking back at 2004

> Certainly that commercial pressure continues to exist, as witnessed by
> Ubuntu's choice to offer very much a GNOME-oriented distribution.

Disclaimer: I'm not a Ubuntu or Gnome user.

When Jeff Waugh did his talk for LUV here in Melbourne I did ask "why GNOME only?" and Jeff's answer was that they didn't have the KDE expertise in the team.

He pointed out that they did do builds of the Sarge KDE packages for Ubuntu, but that they couldn't customise or fix them to fit Ubuntu in the same way they could for GNOME.

I wish the Ubuntu crowd all the best, it's a good distro from my brief experimentation with it.

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