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UserLinux Moves Forward
UserLinux Moves Forward
Posted Feb 5, 2004 9:04 UTC (Thu) by MathFox (subscriber, #6104)In reply to: UserLinux Moves Forward by aleXXX
Parent article: UserLinux Moves Forward
UserLinux wanted to chose ONE desktop as a default. With two very good desktops available one has to make a (hard!) choice. There are no deciding technological arguments, so it is just the licensing issue (LGPL vs. GPL) that was decisive, sorry for the KDE people.
Anyone is free to create a KDE4UserLinux.deb. You are free to run KDE on your desktop. But we shouldn't force our preferences on others.
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UserLinux Moves Forward
Posted Feb 5, 2004 14:59 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]
> UserLinux wanted to chose ONE desktop as a default.It's not about the default desktop, it's about excluding any Qt/KDE
*applications* from UserLinux (k3b, kdevelop, quanta, scribus, ...).
> But we shouldn't force our preferences on others.
Yes, exactly. They chose (ok, Bruce decided) not to support Qt/KDE (although
now he does), so they try to force their preferences on others.
Hmm, kinda weird to me...
Bye
Alex
UserLinux Moves Forward
Posted Feb 5, 2004 19:39 UTC (Thu) by frazier (subscriber, #3060) [Link]
> It's not about the default desktop, it's about excluding any Qt/KDE*applications* from UserLinux (k3b, kdevelop, quanta, scribus, ...).
It's about keeping the number of packages down, period. Less to support.
> Yes, exactly. They chose (ok, Bruce decided) not to support Qt/KDE
For clarification, this comment is referring to UserLinux.
> (although now he does),
For clarification, this comment is referring to Perens, LLC.
> so they try to force their preferences on others.
No. People are free to add to their systems whatever they wish. It's generally easier to add things than remove them, or so has been my experience with Linux distros in general, anyway.