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Here are a couple of comments from the SolusOS Forum that sums up the Gnome3 and Mate issue.
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More Info Here. When you go to Zorin's home page and look at Help--> Developers--> it takes you to http://developer.ubuntu.com/ There is also a commercial version of Zorin which tells me they have considerably more resources. That is what compelled me to try it, because it should be able to provide good support. To make a long story short (I know.... too late) Although distro's like SolusOS are clever, unless they have the resources to back it up you may end up with a desktop that eventually dies on the vine. I predict linux will coalesce into a few major distro's for example how Ubuntu was based on Debian. For a more comprehensive look of what I mean Look Here From there they will then come wrapped in Gnome, KDE, Unity, Enlightenment.... etc and I also predict these too will eventually coalesce into a few major desktops. From here to there a whole lot of chaos in between ![]() ![]() Cheers Last edited by wdhpr; 09. May 2012 at 07:30 PM. |
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Certainly the whole Linux desktop development area is still pretty much a mess. KDE still manages to break things every time an update is released and Gnome of course tells its own story.
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These are the reasons why I like Solus so much. I appreciate some of these are specific to my own needs/system, but then this applies to everyone.
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Dedoimedo is going to review Solus - just waiting for the final release which is pretty imminent.
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I guess I have to admit, I enjoy installing new versions of linux, its almost a hobby for me I like to build on it and see how far I can go with it. If it crashes and burns..... well it just means I get to start all over again ![]() I'm Looking forward to Dedoimedo's review. |
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![]() ![]() Rolling release versions of Linux are obviously likely to be more sensitive because installing one of these some way into it's cycle could require anything up to 400MB of updates. I always look at the forums first to see if anything is breaking with either updates or upgrades. Usually this is network (favourite ![]() With Solus there were a few issues upgrading from RC3 to RC4 but as I understand it these did not break anything, rather that the upgraded components just didn't load. I fully intend to upgrade mine to the final when it comes out so I'll update this thread then if there is anything to tell. The spellchecking issue with LibreOffice is now sorted so they were pretty quick to get a fix out for that.
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Well, it seems I'm a couple of days out of track with the final
![]() http://solusos.com/blog/2012/05/solu...-bit-released/ Maybe because the upgrade path mentioned in the link has not been published (to my knowledge) that I was unaware of this change. It will only take a couple of hours for me to download via their torrent link so I may elect to do this and just do a clean install of the final.
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This is what I did in the end as it removes any possibility of upgrade bugs. Installed the final smooth as silk and now back to where I was. The search feature in their software center is also showing more defined results which makes getting what else you might need a lot easier.
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I once asked that Jeff guy from the Bohdi team about the upgrading. He was very animated in his response. I believe he said..... always,always,always (not sure on how many always) do a clean install. In my early Mepis days, Attempts to upgrade to a new release always resulted in dismal failures. I'm certain the process has improved since then. When I think about it linux has evolved substantially in the last few years. (to me anyway) So I carefully backup-up my stuff and perform fresh installs and re-install any of my missing favorite apps.
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