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My Year With Linux
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Post # 301371
 Re: My Year With Linux
I've been impressed with SolusOS, especially as it appears ikey is going to keep the desktop experience consistent moving into Gnome 3 with SolusOS 2. |
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| Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:01 am |
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MEPIS Enthusiast   Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:45 pm Posts: 4873 Location: Penn's Woods Has thanked: 538 times Have thanks: 398 times
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Post # 301374
Re: My Year With Linux
Does SolusOS have a Gnome desktop? The reason I ask that question is because the screen shots on the SolusOS site look a little KDE-ish, but I couldn't tell what desktop it was. Also, what is the status of the development of Gnome? I've read all sorts of things about classic Gnome being replaced by something else, and people not being terribly happy with the direction it's taking. _________________ SimplyMEPIS is SimplyTHEBEST Mepis 8.5; 2.6.32-1-mepis-pae (Internal 2.6.32-12); 4GB RAM 2.4GHz AMD Athlon 4600+ NVidia GeForce 6150 LE; 304.51 Display Driver |
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| Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:32 am |
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Post # 301376
Re: My Year With Linux
Not a lot of people are happy with gnome 3. SolusOS 1 uses gnome 2, but SolusOS 2 will use a heavily tweaked gnome 3. I've tried the SolusOS 2 Alpha and am impressed at how you can hardly tell the difference between the gnomes of the two different versions of SolusOS. |
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MEPIS Novice  Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 301390
Re: My Year With Linux Sounds good! I for one would think it's great if we are going to see some interaction/synergy between SolusOS and MEPIS, as they both are based on Debian Stable and both seem to have similar goals: create a stable Linux system that "just works". The major difference as far as I can see is that SolusOS focuses on GNOME and MEPIS on KDE.
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| Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:55 pm |
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Post # 301391
Re: My Year With Linux
That sounds like a good idea to me :-) I'm sure there are more than a couple of us who like and follow both distros. |
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| Thu Jun 14, 2012 3:58 pm |
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Post # 301417
Re: My Year With Linux
I agree, you could almost say they were cousins :) I openly said on these forums quite some time ago when involved with other projects that I'd be happy to contribute towards MEPIS and help out where possible. http://www.mepiscommunity.org/forum/vie ... 8&p=264677 My offer still applies, but in the context of SolusOS. |
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| Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:43 am |
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MEPIS Novice Joined: Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:04 pm Posts: 69 Location: Utrecht, The Netherlands Has thanked: 16 times Have thanks: 13 times
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Post # 301425
Re: My Year With Linux Thanks Ikey! I see SolusOS is focussing on GNOME and you are even developing your own modifications for GNOME 3. Is the philosophy of SolusOS to focus on GNOME as a desktop only? Would it be an idea to offer more desktop options such as KDE (which is what most people here prefer), or at least have a more "desktop agnostic" approach, so any tools can be used across different desktop environments? Of course you would need the time/resources/people to do it. Maybe some on this forum would be willing to help. I'm a software developer but unfortunately have little experience with Debian packaging and Linux programming. However who knows I can make a contribution somewhere.
PS: hopefully we're not getting too far off topic here... _________________ HP Probook 4310s - Intel Core2 Duo T6670, 3GB memory, Intel GMA 4500MHD grapics, Intel wifi - MEPIS 11 (32 bits), kernel 2.6.36-1-mepis-smp, KDE 4.7.4 |
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| Fri Jun 15, 2012 9:47 am |
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Post # 301426
Re: My Year With Linux At the moment we're focused on GNOME. Got no issues creating desktop agnostic tools, i.e. the FRW.
If we had a KDE guy I'd be happy with them doing a KDE edition :) </offtopic> |
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MEPIS Enthusiast  Joined: Wed Jul 19, 2006 6:13 am Posts: 6458 Location: Geneva NY Has thanked: 1389 times Have thanks: 1037 times
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Post # 301427
Re: My Year With Linux
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| Fri Jun 15, 2012 10:28 am |
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Post # 301433
Re: My Year With Linux If we've got anything MEPIS needs I'm happy to make it generic enough to be re-used
in MEPIS :) i.e. when our FirstRunWizard is rewritten it could be of use. Who knows. :) |
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