LXer: The other Ubuntu Linux distributions

LXer · 05-04-2010, 10:21 PM

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I like the brand spanking new Ubuntu 10.04 a lot. But while I like its GNOME 2.30 interface, I also like other interfaces such as KDE. It would be nice if Ubuntu could also play MP3s, common video formats and Flash from the get-go. You could install all these and other extras from the Ubuntu repositories, but there's also a wide-variety of Ubuntu spin-offs that come ready to give you the functionality you want right out of the box.

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Hangdog42 · 05-05-2010, 10:03 AM

I can honestly say I don't understand the point behind all of the *buntus. It seems to me they would be much better off sticking with one central distro and then offering packages for the specific needs each of these distros covers. There has got to be a lot of duplicated overhead with this.

broken · 05-05-2010, 10:31 AM

If people wish to waste their time I say: let them.