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Ubuntu For PPC, And As A Live CD
Jeff writes "Ubuntu is just sweet. For Mac users it is even sweeter, as you can read in this review: it supports hardware like a charm ad now with a live CD out everyone can taste ... sorry, test it." And
Chris writes "Gnoppix 0.8.1 now appears to be Ubuntu Linux based. At OSDir, we've got over 50 screenshots of the Gnoppix 0.8.1 release, including the controversial Ubuntu desktop background images." (See this earlier story; the default background images have been changed in Ubuntu proper, so the "controversy" need not keep you up nights.) The Gnoppix version is a very nice Gnome-based live CD, with fewer apps but more polish than most live CDs I've tried. (Note that this is not the same as the official Ubuntu CD, and that the PPC version is not a live CD.)
But what is the fuss with the background image?
Ok, mod me as (-1 Dumbass) if you will, but let me know what's the fuss!
Online backup with Mozy, sounds like Ozzie, but more!
Yeah, come to think of it, I think it was a Debian user who insistantly said "Gentoo is *dying*." I've never used Debian myself, but I have no plans of leaving Gentoo.
Having a smoking section in a public restaurant is like having a peeing section in a public swimming pool.
Here are the images from the thread, and I agree with you. What sort of a fucked up world do we live in, where we can show images of people killing other people, but not of 3 people caring for each other.
...and before you respond that I'm a prude, let me tell you that I've seen porn that will probobly curl your toes and grow hair on your chest. I've laughed in the face(or rear) of Goatse Man. And I still wouldn't like that Ubuntu wallpaper on my desktop. The things looks like a fucking Calvin Klein or Gap ad. They're tacky. And while I like pictures of people naked, the Ubuntu pics have a strange vibe about them. The people are in obviously sexual situations and pretending that they're not, they're just having good clean fun(doing what?)...
What sort of fucked up world do we live in when an OS tries to force social ideology on its users? I get annnoyed with the license puritanism of the Debian folks, but at least it makes sense for them to be like that. Why are the Ubuntu folks trying to put their social beliefs on my desktop?
Your comment does not make sense. By 'caring', you must mean 'fucking', because last time I checked, caring does not require nudity, fucking does. And what the fuck do you mean 'we can show images of people killing people'? People killing other people would be even less apropriate than nudity, and if Ubuntu had shipped *that*, there would be a hell of a lot more complaints. But way to go making gross generalizations about people who are 'prudes'.
And then there's the issue of why the rest of the world would not like them. There is the obvious issue of nudity. Even in liberal societies, that sort of thing is not going to fly on a corporate workstation, let alone the school's. Then there are the other, ahem, social contexts...
Let's see, in the pictures, we have - a white man, a white woman, and a black woman. There are very few places in the world where such a combination of people would be considered acceptable, mostly in urban centers of the U.S. and Europe. Even without the racial overtones, the fact that there's 3 of them would put it off the acceptability scale in most of the world.
If you're going to respond that they should be more accepting, fuck you. Why the hell should an OS be dictating social mores to them to begin with?
Let me ask you a simple question - can you think of any other OS that installed a background that had *people* in it, clothed or not? I know neither Windows nor Mac has. The reason OSes traditionally don't install pics of people is that they would be too distracting, and their identity would become too personalized in the image of the models. For branding reasons alone, Ubuntu should avoid using the 3-way interracial fuckfest.