[GRLUG] Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) released!!

[Ben Rousch]

I just found out that you can also install "Classic" Gnome in Ubuntu
11.10. Apparently it's not Gnome2, but is Gnome3's regular fallback.
http://www.webupd8.org/2011/08/installing-using-classic-gnome-desktop.html

On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Josh Yavor <josh at ya4.us> wrote:
> On 10/13/2011 12:40 PM, John-Thomas Richards wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 10:54:27AM -0400, Ben Rousch wrote:
>> [snip]
>>>
>>>     * For the Unity-haters, you can install Gnome Shell with a simple
>>> 'sudo apt-get install gnome-shell'
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Wait...isn't "Unity" just what Ubuntu calls the interface for GNOME 3.x?
>> Other than Ubuntu-tweakiness, is it radically different?
>>
>> [google-google-google]  Hmm...  Unity was originally built on GNOME 2.x
>> while it will (is now?) be built on GNOME 3.x.  Huh.  It doesn't *look*
>> all that different.
>
> I think the best way to understand the difference is to compare Fedora 15 to
> Ubuntu 11.x with Unity. I never really understood the difference until I
> threw F15 into a VM and experienced the differences. Granted, I'm not sure
> what distro-specific tweaks (if any) are made on Fedora.
>
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