On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 17:14 +0530, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 03-Jan-07, at 4:41 PM, Gabin Kattukaran wrote:
most of their time in a desktop environment, it's actually more sensible to use the desktop's name - Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc. To me it appears to be the quickest way to convey the largest amount of information about the user's environment.
most people use the distro name - i talk of my kubuntu box, my freebsd box and my devian box
Of the lot, I think the Ubuntu family does best in expressing orientation - the various flavours clearly identifying them. As for the others, how different (from a user experience point of view) is Gnome running on Debian (note the lack of extra potentially volatile terms :) fro Gnome running on FC from Gnome running on <your favourite distro here> ?
On the server side it's always better to talk in terms of stacks or services and the packages that provide them
-gabin