Slashdot Mirror


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.

2 of 441 comments (clear)

  1. Re:There goes my karma by KinkyClown · · Score: 1, Troll

    Dude, javac gives me a compile error. It doesn't understand 'printf', can you help me fix it?

  2. Re:The UIs are not the problem by BlackPignouf · · Score: 0, Troll

    but the password hash is set to a single bang (!), which is impossible to match. Apparently, a Debian developer commented this ComputeHash(password) useless command two years ago. With Debian/Ubuntu, just typing "!" as root password will do! :)