From: Mike Petersen (mgpeter_at_pcc-services.com)
Date: Mon Jul 10 2006 - 03:23:07 CEST
From: Mike Petersen <mgpeter@pcc-services.com> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 20:23:07 -0500 Message-Id: <1152494587.10935.7.camel@inspiron2650.private.lan> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES10 - why they made GNOME default and why they killed YOU?
Nice try to start a flamewar! especially when we are discussing server
distros :-)
Novell is a business, they had to default to something and I think they
chose wisely with GNOME, especially when they are focusing SLED on using
GNOME. Also, I am a very advanced Linux user and I use GNOME - I am not
saying it is better, I am just saying it is better for me.
BTW- You can also install KDE on the server, so why all the complaining
over 2 mouse clicks (1 to select KDE and one to deselect GNOME) ?
Cheers,
Mike Petersen
mgpeter@pcc-services.com
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 14:28 -0700, Alexei_Roudnev wrote:
> GUI makes very important customer's impression, and good GUI reduce number
> of possible administrator's errors, reduce reaction time in case of
> problems. I got few Solaris servers from admins who did not used GUI - as a
> result, when we set up proper GUI's, we began to make tasks 10 - 20 times
> faster than before, and began to make some tasks which we never did before
> because of complexity - just because, yes, good GUI /it was Veritas VM and
> Veritas cluster/). Don't underestimate importance of good GUI on the
> servers.
>
> Of course it is not so important (I used to keep KDM in _no local X11_ mode
> on our servers, and use X -query or slogin -X
> to connect when necessary) as on desktops, but it shows a very bad trend in
> Novell - they can junk very good things just because of internal _politics_.
>
> (KDE vs Gnome - I said, for example, it is necessary to input into focused
> window without raising it - you can not do it in Gnome.
> I am not sure if you can make cluster configuration when you multipkly input
> to a few widnows at once, when working in Gnome.
> National charset is important for server's admin. Etc... In reality, if you
> see Gnome, you have impression of amateur system, while KDE have a view and
> properties of good production system - they are absolutely incompatible in
> their features and convenience. Yes, if you are a hacker you can got 90% of
> the same things from Gnome, and yes, Gnome is smaller and faster.)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Oliver Antwerpen" <antwerpen@netsquare.de>
> To: <suse-sles-e@suse.com>
> Sent: Sunday, July 09, 2006 12:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES10 - why they made GNOME default and why they
> killed YOU?
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> > Alexei_Roudnev schrieb:
> > > But tests showed that Novell made GNOME default desktop for the server.
> IT
> >
> > Why should a GUI on a server system be important? And what are the
> > important things that linux can only do with KDE?
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