Ubuntu using Unity as main desktop

[Tyler Aviss]

What type of production box? Most places I would tend to have gnome
would be "Desktop" boxes.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I wonder what everyone's thoughts are on the new Unity Desktop for X windows
>> is? Ubuntu seems to think highly of it as it's making its default
>> manager Unity.
>>
>> I'm looking at youtube videos, it seems to have a mac feel to it, thinking
>> of trying it on a virtual instance to see how it is.
>>
>> What do you all think about it?
>
> Don't know it, haven't tried it. What I do know is that poking at new
> software is usual fun / usually interesting, just as long as you are
> not risking @#$% your "production" boxes. So, sure put it into a
> virtual instance and/or put it on an old "test" PC then kick it around
> for a while. If things don't work out you can delete the virtual
> instance or reformat the test PC with no great loss. If things do work
> out you can start thinking about installing Unity on your "production"
> machines.
>
> Colin.
>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave Germiquet
>>
>>
> --
> The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
> TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
> How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists
>



-- 
Tyler Aviss
Systems Support
LPIC/LPIC-2/DCTS/CLA

"Computers don't make mistakes. They can, however, execute those
provided to them very quickly"
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://gtalug.org/
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists