On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.watts@gmail.com wrote:
I posted in response to Jonathan's comments. You then apparently thought it was posted in response to you. You then defended his comments, and I rebutted. Please check my earlier post, I think you got confused in the thread a little bit. :)
As far as your observation goes, you acknowledge that it's anecdotal. I can probably produce anecdotal accounts one way or another on a huge range of issues, but as we all know anecdotal accounts aren't really useful when trying to make generalizations.
Jeffrey.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Arthur Pemberton pemboa@gmail.com wrote:
And did I say it was representative of the entire community? I SPECIFICALLY said I was commenting about those that I observed.
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I never said that in the first place. What are you talking about?
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OK- here's something directly on the KDE VS Gnome issue/s. DVD ubiquity has now made it almost trivial to package *BOTH* environments on distribution media. And large hard drives make "installing" both desktop/UI realms equally trivial. The undiscussed kudos for Ubuntu wil be discussed after more awareness of THIS::
http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/
Read the writeup about their Ubuntu family issue..
It comes in the form of a magazine containing a 2 DVD set. Basic explanation -one 32 bit,one 64 bit of the various Ubuntu flavors.
Get them. Evaluate them. Then after we all do so we might be able to have some experiential base to comment from intelligently. Oh, PLEASE do NOT take that out of context as derogatory! consider it more as explanation of how I try to self direct whenever possible.
"When did Autodidact's become an endangered species?"