Re: new blank tab

["Michael M." <debian writemoore net>]

Kristoffer Lund�wrote:
> On 3/16/06, *Michael M* <debian writemoore net 
> <mailto:debian writemoore net>> wrote:
>
>     It makes me eager to use Gnome 2.14!  It's times like these I think I
>     should switch away from Debian to something more cutting-edge like
>     Gentoo.  Then I go read the Gentoo installation docs, and after about
>     five pages I get very sleepy, and when I wake up, I'm still running
>     Debian.  :-)
>
> You could give Ubuntu a try - it's very cutting-edge, not the least when 
> it comes to Gnome, as it tracks Gnomes release cycles (releasing a new 
> version about one month after each time and keeping it updated), there 
> is no installation hassles and you'd feel right at home with a lot as 
> it's built on debian. I'm running Gnome 2.14 already in the development 
> version (Ubuntu Dapper), otherwise the full version will be released in 
> a little while.

Yeah, I will try Ubuntu again ... I have fiddled with it before and 
thought it was pretty impressive.  I'm just waiting for Dapper to be 
released (which, I read, will be delayed a month or so).

> It does not install Epiphany by default though, as it uses Firefox, but 
> it's just one "sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser 
> epiphany-extensions" away, and then you can set it to be your default in 
> Gnome Preferred Applications.

I thought that was odd, but I guess it's because Firefox is the big 
x-platform success story for Mozilla in particular and open-source in 
general.  I guess it does make sense that a distro geared toward Windows 
converts would stick to what's popular.  Plus, it's a very nice browser, 
but I think it's become too resource intensive.  It's getting away from 
the lightweight browser it started out as.

Still, it is very useful in the sense that it provides a measure of 
familiarity for people changing OSes.  I've used Firefox on Windows, OS 
X, and Linux.  It's good to have available at least a few major apps 
you're very familiar with when you're starting out on a new OS and 
trying to figure out how it all works.  It reduces the shock.  :-)

--
Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions 
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to 
dream." -S. Jackson