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Moving Toward a Single Linux UI?

Anonymous writes "With the releases of Fedora 9, Hardy Heron and OpenSuSE 11 so close together, it's looking more than ever like an evolution to a common interface for major Linux distributions. Here's a compilation of screen shots and descriptions that make it appear to be the case. Would this be a good thing or a bad thing?" There are plenty of other options out there, of course, even considering only Linux distros that are based on Gnome and KDE, and plenty of wilder (or at least less common) desktops to choose from besides.

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  1. They already have a common UI. by kwabbles · · Score: 5, Funny

    80x25 white on black bash, baby.

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    1. Re:They already have a common UI. by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny

      80x25 white on black bash, baby.

      If I wasn't such a geek, I would have interpreted in such the wrong way. :P

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    2. Re:They already have a common UI. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      What's funny about this?

    3. Re:They already have a common UI. by mrbluze · · Score: 5, Funny

      What's funny about this? What's funny about this?
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    4. Re:They already have a common UI. by kwabbles · · Score: 5, Funny

      Because I can waste more time "reading log files" by having to scroll right on every line. :)

      (Whenever someone walks in my office I just go "hmmm......" and act like I'm seeing something interesting, then they leave and I go back to sipping my drink and daydreaming)

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    5. Re:They already have a common UI. by prestomation · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think my head just exploded...

    6. Re:They already have a common UI. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I love command line, but why use default 80x25?! Because I'm using the same computer I used ten years ago.

      And haven't rebooted it once.

    7. Re:They already have a common UI. by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

      80x25 white on black bash, baby.

      GREEN on black, you infidel!!!

      (in a pinch, 'amber' will do instead of green, but never WHITE!)

    8. Re:They already have a common UI. by mk_is_here · · Score: 5, Funny

      80x25 white on black bash, baby.

      If I wasn't such a geek, I would have interpreted in such the wrong way. :P

      Of course, an angry zebra baby!
    9. Re:They already have a common UI. by Tejin · · Score: 4, Funny

      You have white? Why back in my day we only had orange phosphor!

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    10. Re:They already have a common UI. by darkpixel2k · · Score: 4, Funny

      80x30 grey on black.

      Oh crap. We're forked.

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    11. Re:They already have a common UI. by Sir_Lewk · · Score: 5, Funny

      I think this is all the evidence I need to support my accusation that the mods are idiots.

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    12. Re:They already have a common UI. by Tanktalus · · Score: 4, Funny

      BLACK on black. For us paranoid security guys.

    13. Re:They already have a common UI. by hostyle · · Score: 4, Funny

      Constantly, without ever being turned off ?

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  2. Re:twm for me by geekoid · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I have no window decorations of any kind - no titlebars, resize grab areas, etc, etc. Moving, resizing, iconifying, etc"

    Your 35 and you haven't lived at all~

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  3. Re:UI maturity by thermian · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's crazytalk....

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  4. Re:There goes my karma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's funny about this?

    * ducks * What's funny about ducks?
  5. Re:There goes my karma by iknowcss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please don't let this become a slashdot meme. Please don't let this become a slashdot meme. Please don't let this become a slashdot meme.

    There, I said it.

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  6. Re:There goes my karma by vikstar · · Score: 4, Funny

    void karmakiller(int depth) {
        for (int i = 0; i < depth; i++) printf("| ");
        printf("What's funny about this?\n");
        karmakiller(depth+1);
    }

    int main() {
        karmakiller(0);
    }


    // I win, but you have to read it bottom up :P

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  7. Re:mod me down, but picking just one would be grea by pxc · · Score: 5, Funny

    Gopher, obviously.

  8. Re:There goes my karma by Doggabone · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's funny about this? * ducks * What's funny about ducks? Dunno, but they quack me up.