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Planning Dapper +1, The Edgy Eft
Christian Jensen writes "On the ubuntu-announce mailing list, Mark Shuttleworth announced the plans for the next Ubuntu release - 'The Edgy Eft', the successor to Dapper Drake." This release is being touted as both cutting edge (edgy) and containing several comparatively "young" software additions ('Eft' being a 'youthful newt, going through its first exploration of the rocky territory just outside the stream.') like Xen, XGL/AIGLX, and others.
Planning Dapper +1, The Edgy Eft
I read that headline eight times. I ran to the mirror and smiled to make sure both sides of my mouth were working. Then I made sure both my arms lifted fine. "Hrm...", I thought, "I didn't have a stroke. Why does that headline make no sense?"
Trolling is a art,
...WHAT?
I got better. But it did make me a bit, you know, edgy...
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Why must everything be "Edgy" now a days? When I think of edgy, I think of some dude strung out on too much caffiene and cigs.
If that's cool, whatever, I'm out of touch anymore anyway. But it still doesn't paint a good image.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
As an Ubuntu user and fan, I'd just like to say: for fuck's sake, stop it with the stupid names! Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake, Edgy Eft. Seriously, I feel like a jackass enough saying "Ubuntu". I don't understand, are they actively trying to discourage people from using it?
Yes, Ubuntu, we get it. I mean, I know version numbers in press releases are so corporate and everything, but but some day (say, when they're releasing Zoroastrian Zebra or whatever) they'll look back on this little phase and feel a little silly. Like when you see your really cool high school yearbook shot about 10 years later, when it's so absolutley, positively, not cool (and worse: you realize it wasn't then, either!).
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
"We can afford to take some risks with Dapper+1, because Dapper has turned
out so well."
I love Ubuntu and all that, but jeez, get it out the door first!
Mark is crazy. Cool dude, but crazy.
I personally think their little names are quite clever.. who cares anyway.. the damn distro works better than any crap RPM based distro ANY day.. i'm GLAD to see they're implementing Xgl in this big release.. shit is gonna start hitting the fan.. i finally got Xgl to work with my cloned twinview setup, and man its unbelievable.. the fact that Ubuntu is running behind this nice Xgl interface, makes it even BETTER.. i'll continue to recommend this distro, and future distros, to all my friends, and to any one who doesn't want to spend $200 on a CRAP OS..
*plays the Apogee theme song music*
This is rather off-topic so I'll expect the usual down-mod.
/. should get a new icon for Ubuntu instead of using the Debian one. Yes, I know that Ubuntu is based on Debian Sid, but seeing that Ubuntu is arguably more popular than Debian (based on Distrowatch stats), perhaps an Ubuntu section/icon would be in order?
Perhaps
Are they going in alphabetical order?
At first, they had Hoary Hedgehog, but then they went Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake, and Edgy Eft. If they're going to do this, what happened to the 'C'? And why not start with an 'A'?
Ride the skies
It's real prevelant in the OSS world, unfortunately. Clever names that, well, aren't. OGG Vorbis is a good example. It just sounds... Odd. It's not descriptive of function and doesn't have a cool ring to it. I think that's part of the problem with adoption. MP3 sounds cool (so does AAC). They are the nifty-technology acronyms and they are easy to say.
OSS people need to think more marketing driven. Had I been the one in charge of making the Ogg Vorbis thing, I probably would have looked at calling it something that made reference to MP3. Call it MP5 maybe, for 5th Gen Music Packer. Something that's clearly intended to draw a reference to MP3. If not something so direct, then think up a cool acronym, and figure out something that works for it. AAC is good, nice acronym, good name (Advanced Audio Codec). Sounds all high tech and shit.
Same thing with shit like GIMP. Ok so the full name, GNU Image Manipulation Program isn't horrible, but calling it GIMP is fucking stupid. For nearly everyone the assocation is either Pulp Fiction, or a crippled person. Not something you want. Now Photoshop, that's a good name. Says what it does, sounds cool, conjures up ideas of picture editing, which is indeed what it's for.
So I'm not at all suppirsed to see Ubutnu (which is odd to Western ears at any rate) doing stuff like this. I'm sure they think it's terribly cool and clever, and I'm sure many people agree with them. However I'm also pretty sure they haven't thought it over marketing wise.
It's hard not to warm to this announcement, imho. It is written in a clear style by someone who comes across as open, approachable and not afraid to take risks. Such a contrast to corporate chiefs who bark out orders, rubbish their competitors or spout incomprehensible jargon written for them by a marketing droid. OK the names for Ubuntu releases may be a bit eccentric but this cool, direct approach is what attracts me to Linux. It's my PC to do with as I wish and it absolutely doesn't have to have a toad from the office or authentication central inside it.
Just my 2 cents, but I think Ubuntu does have some pretty big challenges in front of it quite apart from incorporating "edgy" new technology. It needs to find a self-sustaining financial model and some kind of interface with business and the enterprise, which the Dapper release is meant to kick off, I believe. Anyway, Kudos to them.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames
It's a long list!
Extreme Elephant
Seriously though, I hope that, with all these improvements they keep Ubuntu clean and simple, it's what I like most about it. A good selection of packages to start with and, if you want more, you can get what you need through the repositories.
A goal is a dream with a deadline
As I understand it, he is saying that this can be a more risky release with more experimentation because people can always say "well, dapper is the stable one. Use that for production systems." Won't that hurt your credibility, if you have different releases of different quality? Wouldn't it be smarter to have a "risk team" playing around for the next release while the current release is being polished so that when the rest of the team starts working on the next release there's already been enough time on it to make sure it is production quality? (You could switch up who gets to be on the risk team if people are complaining that they don't get to have fun.)
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
Pop it on the Bar-B, let's see how this extreme elephant tastes!
confirmed: the homepage would be myspace.com :)
Strongly dislike Ubuntu? I've yet to hear any reason for that other than "the name sounds stupid." So by all means, elaborate.
Breakfast served all day!
I'm rooting for them to shift to rappers after the animal thing's done. Easy-E, Marky Mark...there's a huge collection waiting to be used. As a plus, a rapper-themed naming scheme has built-in celebrity endorsement tie-ins. ("Use Ubuntu, yo! Fo Shiz!")
You could have written your entire remark in ubuntu codenames:
Duped Debian
F*cking Fork
Karma Kameleon
As a plus, a rapper-themed naming scheme has built-in celebrity endorsement tie-ins. ("Use Ubuntu, yo! Fo Shiz!")
I don't know, open-sourcey, info-wants-to-be-free, sandal-wearing Ubuntu-ites may not exactly hit it off with the rapper crowd. I mean, there are enough mixed messages in rap already: "He had what I wanted, so I wacked him and took it. Me so blingy! But remember kids, it's bad to download and steal my music, um, because I don't actually wack people for their bling, I um... work with my corporate partners and representatives to sell entertainment and make more money in a year posing than you will in your entire life doing an hard day's physical labor. Um, Yo!, also."
So, I guess we'll need a new naming theme. I think Norse mythology, maybe. Fuzzy Freia, Luscious Loki, and Thistly Thor, perhaps.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Maybe you've heard of it. That's what us open source developers do, have fun. If you don't want to use our software, fine, don't.
What's the difference between open source software an proprietary software?
Open source software is made by engineers.
Proprietary software is made by managers.
How we know is more important than what we know.
Do you run Windows? Which version? Memphis? Cairo? Whistler? Longhorn? Or maybe you're a Mac guy. So would that be Cheetah? Panther? Tiger? Leopard? Of course, now that they've moved to Intel chips you can run either one on your Yonah CPU.
:P*
Everyone does it, it doesn't hurt anyone, and you can always call it by the version number if you really want. Well, except for Windows
*(yes, I know there really is a version number but it won't mean much to most people)
If you are talking about burning karma, perhaps "Karma Komodo Dragon" would work better...
I have freaks! I did something right...
I think everyone with a brain agrees... Debian is cool, Ubuntuu is cool... Debian Stable is the awsome server, Ubuntu is pretty with all the new cool apps. The deal is... there are all these drones out there that are screaming Debian sucks, Debian is dead, and all of that cursing... but the fact is, Ubuntu is the child of Debian, and if you like Ubuntu, you should thank Debian.
If we look at Ubuntuu posts as having the Debian spiral as an honoring of Debian, cool... but it is hard to do with all of these mifs out there trying to stir it up and naysay those of us who still love and use debian... it is annoying and it is well... really to be honest... hurtful... as hirtful as the RTFM's that we were talking about earlier today in a nother post...
The Debian community is the essence of geekdon and in that they are the soul of opensource... it does not mean they are fitted for mainstream... but man... are they a great backbone for mainstream...
Personally, i would dig it if the ran the ubuntu website on a debian server just to show respect...
anyway.... sorta a ramble... but... no flame... but maybee a couple of buckets of water on y'alls heads for stirring stuff up amidst the two OS's that should exhibit the most familial of love for each other...
come on... feel the love... have compassion for people who still love the old debian install, that love a collection of stable bulletproof packages... Is there a reason to notlike Debian? is it a threat? No...it is something every Ubuntu user should try to support... and Debian users should love the fact that they have offspring... an d that with every spinoff that comes from debian, the world is more cemented in debians package management...
if ya have hate... take it somewhere else... email it to billg@microsoft.mpl (the new monopoly domain that microsoft is thinking of patenting.)
but not amongst the empirical "us".
8-)
I, for one, welcome our new Ubuntu Playful Platypus overlods.
It may be a blatant for, but it sure as hell a good one. Sure, use Debian if you're fairly savvy and want to build a specialized server, but if you just want a desktop system, then Ubuntu is perfect. Debian for the hardcore and Ubuntu for the softcore. Oh and I have bad bad karma...
Freakin' Franklin Gonzo George Holy Holistics Invisible Irwin Joyful Juliet Kingsized Kings Laughable Lables Micky Mouse Nourished Nigerians Outstanding Opensource Pornographic Phonographs Quenched Quickens Real Reasons Super Skidmarks Triumphant Tubas Upsidedown Umbrellas Victorious Villans Wicked Wakasachi Xtreme Xenocide Yelling Yams Zaney Zoolander (its linux, fuck copyright)
The ability to fork software away from bureaucracy is one of the greatest strengths of open source. I wish I could do that at my place of work.
How we know is more important than what we know.
get any worse, Wizards of the Coast introduces the successor to such blockbuster swords as Excalibur, Blackrazor, and Stormbringer: Edgy Eft!
The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. -Anais Nin
Everyone does it, it doesn't hurt anyone, and you can always call it by the version number if you really want
I know, you're right that everyone uses project code names. Traditionally, that was so that it could be referred to in in-house correspondence, at least for a while, without so much of a risk that if such stuff got out that it would directly wreck some market position or give competition something to chew on. After that it just plain became fashionable. I've even all for that. It's just the... well, deliberate goofiness that these particular guys use that I'm making a little fun of. They can certainly call it anything they want - it's just that their urge to make it such a warm-n-fuzzy is a little cloying, that's all. You're right to point that stuff out though - I didn't mean to come across like I didn't know about the wider practice.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
You obviously did not grow up in the 80s
Yeah, I get Ubuntu versioning, but jeez... this version name sucks. The only suckier name I can remember is when SuSE named their Chamelion maskot "Geeko".
I initially thought Ubunutu was a bad name for a distro, but it's growing on me.
I thought Warty Warthog was a *GREAT* name for a "beta" or early release.
I thought Hoary Hedgehog was a dumb name - Hoary?!? Hoary???
Breezy Badger was a dumb name for a release. I mean... what end of the badger is the breeze coming from?!?
Dapper Drake was a less sucky name.
But... Edgy Eft! That's the worst yet! *NOBODY* knows what an eft is.
How many times are Ubuntu fans going to have to answer the following question: What the F___ is an EFT?
I mean, in one corner we have vaguely manly/futuristic/open and free (longhorn, XP, Vista, the latter being particularly notable), and in the other you have the uber-hip-sleekness of large jungle cats. Personally, I would much rather an OS comapny has a little fun with their name, but they don't sweat it too hard, rather than spending millions on focus groups/marketing/product positioning. Particulaly when that money could be better spent on QA.
The login banner for the official release of Breezy displays 'Breezy Badger' as the name of the operating system, which would suggest the names are more than just development codenames. Or has that changed in Dapper?
write to files it doesn't need to change the size of?
that should be enough to install linux in an image file on a NTFS partition if the base file was created first in windows.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
Feel free to use terms like "Release candidate" instead if it makes you feel better. It works for me.
Specific Magic Weapons /bin/target!'
The Edgy Eft
Stats: Planning Dapper +1, (1d4+1, 20/x3)
Special: 3 Times per day, the wielder can activate this weapon using a command word (anything alliterative), causing it to gain +2 to attack and damage against any single foe designated in the previous round. This effect lasts for 1 hour. The target may be changed at any time by pointing it at a new target and shouting 'emerge
Description: This light walking stick seems to have an air of ease-of-use surrounding it, despite being an exotic weapon. It is made of solid chrome, with a gemstone at the top emmiting rainbow colors randomly at all hours, thus earning it it's nickname.
Minimum CL (coder level) 10. Must know C and be a worshiper of Linux to create. Market Value: 0gp*. Cost to create: 10,000gp
*Must be installed by a cleric of Linux, who typically demand pizza and cola in exchange for their services.
'Odiferous Odin'
'Virginal Valhalla'
'Frisky Fenris'
'Happy Hel'
I could go on but, thankfully, I won't...
--
"Michael, I did nothing. I did absolutely nothing - and it was everything that I thought it could be."
is that apple codenames seem much better known than ms ones.
people seem to use ms codenames when discussing the betas but as soon as there is an actual release they become largely forgotten very quickly (does apple actually put its codenames on the boxes? ms certainly doesn't).
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If they're experimenting with new stuff (Xen and XGL are pretty risky already) why not add Beagle? It's matured pretty rapidly and with both Vista and Tiger sporting real-time search capability now is the time to get it into Linux.
You'll end up with an 'experience' rather than a program.
The buttons and graphical elements will be not only unrecognisable, but all completely different from one another.
You'll realise that you can't actually *do* anything with the program, only sit and appreciate the artist's sheer brilliance.
"sgi" example is a good one of how an Emperor may choose to be clothed. I graduated from the University of Texas; while I was there, a (famous, large) advertising agency called GSD&M -- some of the founders of which were Texas alums -- took on as a pro bono work a massive "rebranding" campaign for the University, busily brainstorming and no doubt exchanging heated and eloquent memos, then rigorous focus-grouping, survey-taking, and all the rest.
What'd they come up with? What grand vision, what summary of the hopes, goals, and accomplishments of the University did these grand poobahs arrive at?
"We're Texas."
Yup -- as silly as it sounds. "We're Texas." I forget the ludicrous amount of money they claimed this service would have been worth if they hadn't donated it, but frankly, I'd rather they have donated that much money's worth of bull semen instead, because (within limits) that's a commodity that's resellable -- unlike the two-word cow-patty they actually supplied.
timothy
p.s. "We're Texas." Say it a few more times -- sorta slides right off the brain.
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
I agree with this post.
Get your own logo - probably some sort of duck.
I can't be the only one who heard "F'd" mentally when reading that headline... hopefully that's not a statement on the release or users who choose to install it. :D
(I love Ubuntu and their funky names.. bring it on!)
Cryptic Allusion - New Mac and Dreamcast Games!
I kid you not. This is the main cripe I have with Ubuntu. Why does it have to look so hideous by default?!
Yeah, things like that are why I'm waiting for the Bushy Beaver release to jump on board...
> It's my PC to do with as I wish and it absolutely doesn't have to have a toad from the office or authentication central inside it.
Just you wait for the Tossing Toad release...!
The Dapper quality releases will be strongly tied to future corporate plans. Plus in every release announcement they will clearly state that the Dapper quality releases get extra long support.
Yet the overall quality of the other Ubuntu releases will never hopefully lower to a point where they are unusable by lay persons. I would hope that the kinds of people that a Dapper release was made for (IT managers) would be able to figure out which releases to use where.
Also, I didn't realize that ONLY this release was going to have the extended support. I thought it was from now on they were making releases that would get the longer support. So the in-between, risky, releases will use the breezy support model?
Every two years will bring a Dapper quality release. The way Mark has described it before, its as if the releases in between those two years are basically building up to these Dapper quality releases:
Our current plan is that the Dapper Drake (Ubuntu 6.06 if we hit our June 2006 release date goal) will be the last of this first "set" of releases. So post-Dapper we have the opportunity to define a new "feel" or overarching theme. It would be unlikely to be... blue. But it might be substantially different to the current Human theme.
Each of these in between releases will get the same level of support as all the Ubuntus before Dapper.
I personally have been excited about Edgy long before it was announced. Once you get the hang of it, its easy to spot which Ubuntu releases are for you.
The first releases after the two year major releases will have changes in styles and will be very distinct and maybe a little crazy- just like Warty was when it hit back in the day. All the exciting things the major release had to skip during the year can be added to this release. Mark has already said that Edgy will bring a new color scheme- exciting!
The second release after the major release will be the best of the in betweens- the craziness of the previous release will be polished down some and the time when these releases will come (Spring) is after all the major releases at the end of the previous year. Hoary was really great for this reason.
The third release after a major release will be the most compromised- many new things might be dumped on this release so the Dapper quality release can use the release as development time for its more boring platform. Long before Breezy came out I was scared because it in a bad time of the year for a distro release (right before the new Open Office, Xorg and Firefox were released) and because it had to take on large bites (modular Xorg before Xorg was ready, GCC transition for PART of the system, etc.) to make life easier for Dapper. As a result Breezy seems to be the most buggy release (yet many of these problems - like floppies not working and an unstable OpenOffice- has been fixed post release).
Then we have another Dapper quality release and the IT managers of the world can pay attention again. Long live Ubuntu.
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an edgy Hoarhog.
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I hope a throrough locked down SELinux implementation is one of the edgy new features.
Fedora is really pushing ahead in this territory. The implementation isn't solid, but it's getting there.
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It has a version (release) number. This was not a press release, it was on a community mailing list.
/etc/lsb-release" you'll get:
That aside, I don't understand why people are so fixated on the names. If you don't like the name, refer to it by its release #.
Ubuntu (distro) 6.06 (release) Dapper Drake (codename/description)
Under Breezy, if you "cat
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=5.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=breezy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu (The Breezy Badger Release)"
The difference between the release and the codename/description should be a bit more evident.
if you do crosswords, play scrabble or are an outside nature/biology geek you know what an eft is.
It's the opposite of an ight....silly
but ya, oongawah- b'wanna-linux and names, just weird for a distro, although I didn't mind the menage de trois theme....
Ubutnu
;)
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It's Ubu-n-t-u. Not that it's any better
Ogg Vorbis sounds sweet. Now GIMP, not so much. My
They call me the wookie man, I guess that's what I am
that's a name for dweebz! You need a MANLY MAN name for the next ubuntu-and here it is! (I DARE YOU shuttlecock, in soviet isle of mannz, double dog dares U)
Randy Rhino!
You know you love it!
http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/nature/salamand/thumbs /images/red-eft.jpg
;)
Just so the Photoshopers have a starting point
-Rick
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Debian in-joke: Sure that's not from those BYU students?
> Xtreme Xenocide
:(
Hey! What did I ever do to Ubuntu?
'Once scientists, even the dim-witted social scientists, get muzzled, the Western Civilization is finished.' - oldhack
already in dapper...
Mark Shuttleworth call for Edgy Eft (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+specs) is nice but does it really have any impact on improvement on Linux systems, on it's market share. Does he really think that this will produce any new ideas which are needed for the break through of Linux in the desktop area? I think not.
If a developer is interested in edgy work he has to drop a lot of the out dated circumstances taken over from the old UNIX area which is now almost dead. He has to get rid of thinking along all the current implementations and work on something which isn't as limited. There are IMHO two very important areas where hard cuts are a necessity and both are linked with the look&feel.
First any edgy work has to get rid of all the Gnome/KDE/etc desktop guidelines and replace them with a single set of guidelines as outlined in wyoGuide (http://wyoguide.sf.net/). Only then will OpenSource application become competitors to the commercial counterparts.
Second any edgy desktop has to get rid of X11 and replace it with a frame buffer implementation (DirectFB) as outlined in wyoDesktop (http://wyodesktop.sf.net/). Only then will the Linux desktop be possible in a sensible fashion on anything ranging from super computers to embedded devices.
I'm well aware that these two suggestions throws away the most important corner stones of the OpenSource world. I also knows that this means a huge load of work but to become successful this is simply necessary. Believe me if it isn't done and if not soon the OpenSource will fail. So I encurrage anybody, developer or not, to visit the two projects and subscribe to the users mailing list else the Ubuntu Bug #1 (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1) will never be fixed.
O. Wyss
See http://wyoguide.sf.net/papers/Cross-platform.html
The vast majority of people on this world don't use English as a mother language. They don't even speak it, for the most part, regardless of whether it's the world's most widely spoken language or not. Do the names for various software applications mean the same thing to them as they do to you?
Is Ubuntu less offensive to a Corsican reading the newspaper "u ribombu" or a Zulu businessman using Linux to do his backoffice?
Does GIMP sound the same when read by a Frenchman, or by someone from China who doesn't even use the Latin alphabet?
If I say "Marvelous Mongoose" to you in a few years time; are you going to think "new Ubuntu release" or not?
Silly names sound... well... silly. But they help you recognize the product.
Would you be inclined to use Google, GoogleMaps and GoogleEarth if they were called Company, Maps and Earth? Sure it's difficult to get the brand positioned at first, but once it's burned into the public mindset, it's there to stay!
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This naming scheme was divined by Anagogic Alderman, who described it to Byzantine Baptist, who proposed it to Clandestine Council, which approved it. The council's courier, Dapper Drake, informed Egomaniacal Enforcer of the new naming scheme. Of course, his assistant, Fastidious Francis, shared this news with the reporter, Gregarious Grant, who posted a rumor about it on the blog run by Hinderaking Huffington. A devout reader of the blog (named Ignorant Iguana) grew upset and presented a complaint to the magistrate, Judicious Jared. Jared appointed a special investigator, Kyrgyzstani Karl, to write a report on the legality of the naming scheme, but his girlfriend Lucious Lemur enticed him to put his work duties aside. The inquiry lay dormant until -- 2 months later -- Meticulous Manfred reviewed a list of unresolved cases. Manfred re-assigned the case to Necromancer Nancy, and Nancy's sidekick Omniscient Orangutan had an epiphany: Anagogic Alderman had formed an alliance with Parsimonious Pest. Pest pushed for the naming scheme as a favor to Quintessential Quayle. Quayle was talking to a girl at a bar, Rapacious Rabbit, and he promised her that he had such great powers that he could name a Linux distribution after her. Rabbit, of course, thought this was all quite ludicrous, so she asked Scentcone Skeptic to examine the question of naming schemes for Linux distributions. Skeptic opposed the naming scheme. Of course, he had a long history of opposing creative folks like Titillating Titus and Ubunese Ulcer. Ulcer and his brother, Vindictive Viper, had marketed a board game in which players "beat up" other players by proposing new rhyhmes. The game was an utter failure, and only Weird Whalrus purchased a copy. Whalrus also purchased lots of Xxx Xxx material from Yukon Yvette. Yvette's cousin, Zany Zeitgeist, had existential problems that she couldn't name, so she asked Anagogic Alderman for some help with nomenclature.
They've already got Beagle. I've got it in my 5.10 release. Just install the Deskbar (`sudo apt-get install deskbar-applet') and add it to your Gnome panel and you can search Beagle (which is installed automatically with Deskbar) from there. It's very useful; however, because the 5.10 kernel is a bit old (2.6.12), it doesn't support inotify, so Beagle has to do the indexing of everything instead of just updating the things which have changed as soon as the changes occur, so the index isn't always fresh and Beagle uses more resources than it could if 5.10 had a newer kernel (which 6.06 does).
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Replacing X11 isn't "edgy" it's "stupid" and just shows your ignorance of the technology. I'm tired of hearing about how X11 needs to be replaced by people who know little about how the technology actually works and what the problems with it are.
Doesn't writing to a file change the size of it? I may be off here, but if you change the contents of a file, I think that changes the file size also.
I saw it on Slashdot, it must be true!
They turned it into a newt!
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Ubuntu going from HIG to wyoGuide? Wouldn't that be a *big* step back? Why replace one set of guidelines with another, inferior, set of guidelines?
Ubuntu going from HIG to wyoGuide? Wouldn't that be a *big* step back? Why replace one set of guidelines with another, inferior, set of guidelines?
What HIG do you mean? Mac OSX? KDE? Gnome HIG or anything else? You're not giving any clues why you think it's a step back so what worth is your comment? Your posting as anonymous which either means your a complete newbie or just want to troll without being known. Maybe think first next time before you post.
Does codename really matter anyway? Was reading the post and people "complaining" about the codenames of a distro, really if you don't like it just mention the version of it. (7.07) or whatever. I think they done a good work so far. Ubuntu meaning as everyone know is "humanity toward others", which i think its proving it. so far is the most efficent and popular distro, with its neat gnome theme.
about the name, i thought about it and i think matt just made a weird hiralous codename there lol
And 25% overrated.
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