[wellylug] Ruminations

[Michael Dittmer]

Jamie

When Lycoris Desktop/LX Update 4 becames stable, currently in NDA testing, I
will throw a copy your way to try out.

It is coming out with KDE 3.2.1 (totally no GNOME - direct flames to
/dev/null).

I am expecting it to be released in the second half of this year.

RGDS

Michael

-----Original Message-----
From: wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz
[mailto:wellylug-admin at lists.naos.co.nz]On Behalf Of Jamie Dobbs
Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 10:41 a.m.
To: wellylug at lists.naos.co.nz
Subject: [wellylug] Ruminations


Well due to one thing and another I no longer have Linux installed on my
desktop PC at home and don't intend to reinstall for quite some time (if
ever!).
The main reason for this was somehow Linux screwed up my partition tables
and I had to spend around 4 to 6 hours recovering a lost NTFS partiiton on
my second HDD that had over 8GB of important data on it.
At some stage I may try and get a second PC and try Linux as a desktop OS
again but in the meantime I'll just stick with Linux on servers and
Windows on desktops.

In my opinion Linux still has a hell of a long way to go to get to the
ease of use and setup of Windows, and until it does so it's not going to
win many desktops.
Some distro's are getting there (slowly) such as Xandros and others are
taking huge steps backwards in useability and stability (esp. Mandrake
10). My beef with Mandrake 10? Why on earth release a distro then take
away all of the update mirrors? It defies any sort of logic to me, if you
want people to use your buggy OS then for gods sake let them update to try
and make it stable and get new packages. Perhaps the real 'official'
release of Mandrake 10 (due in May?) will be better, but after 9.2 I'm not
holding out much hope.
The only version of Linux I think that I'll try again (when I get a
seperate machine to trun it on) is Gentoo. It seems to be the most stable
of the up-to-date Linux versions that I've tried (I don't count Debian as
up-to-date).

So ends my rant for today, these are my hear felt feelings and are not
meant to offend anyone but perhaps they might provoke some thoughts from
some of you regarding the future of Linux on the desktop.


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