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Previewing Dapper And Edgy
Frank Clarkson writes to mention a ZDNet article about the upcoming release of 'Dapper Drake', Ubuntu Linux. They also give a mini-preview of Eft. From the article: "'I'm promising to impose (almost ;-) ) zero from-the-top requirements for Edgy, this release is entirely up the to development team to envision and implement,' he wrote. 'Almost everything that lands in Edgy will be driven from the development team, who get to play with whatever new technologies they fancy along the way. So that should give us a nice big bump in infrastructure and bling.'"
From TFA, on possible Eft features: .a first flirt with multiarch (multiple architecture) support for true mixed 32-bit and 64-bit computing on AMD64. . ."
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I sure hope this happens; then I can finally switch back to 64-bit mode. I know about the chroot and all that fanciness but it's too much of a hassle.
i'm certainly looking forward to Dapper Drake in June, but I bet I'm not alone in being more excited for Edgy. I think a lot of us are looking forward to a stable implementation of XGL to "just work," because we understand this simple and unnecessary eye-candy could be just what we needed to convince some regular people to give Linux a try.
It's great to see more distros playing around with Xgl and AIGLX; the more exposure they get, the faster they mature. I've been playing around with Xgl (Compiz) in Gentoo for the last month or so and am quite impressed. A number of features are just for show, but some are quite useful. I like the implementation of a function similar to exposé on the Mac, and true transparent windows can actually be useful. Stability wise, Xgl can definitely use some work, but overall it runs quite well (I typically use it with Gnome 2.14). I would suggest running any essential processes that need to be kept running in screen, but typically I only see crashes if I try to show off too much (eg. run multiple transparent movies on top of each other while spinning the desktop).
Sadly, PS/2 was yet another victim of USB, which doesn't care what you plug into it, the electrical slut.
In which case, I'd like to use the +5 response as my own:
Thanks!
a world where high quality software, in a simple package with smiling people on the cover and no marketting speak, could be delivered in bulk, for free, to your home -- with both a live disc to try at no danger, and a full disc for when you want to run it.
And this software would work well, have free online updates and upgrades, and make it so that you could even show your friends who aren't technically inclined how to use it and gain its benefits? How it enables people like me who work on software to easily contribute to improving the lives of thousands of computer users around the world?
Yea, it's a damn shame that developers are doing marketters' jobs here. Let's all live in a world where the marketters do the developers' jobs by setting out the game-plan on features and design.
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Right. That's exactly what the FOSS community needs. A marketing director. Because, gee, these developer fuckwits have had decades to get their shit together, and all they can come up with is better more stable software than anything out there. But nobody cares because the names are so weird. Like, what's this "less is more" thing? I don't get it. What really matters is image. Branding. Market penetration. Shareholder value.
.NET, monad, etc. I like the contrast. I like the competition. Pluralism is good. Monotheism is bad. Stop trying to impose a single paradigm on operating systems. If your grandma can't use linux, then either (a) do something about it, or (b) buy her a Mac. Stop whining that the largely volunteer FOSS community should start doing things your way. And then you folks have the nerve to complain that it's the developers who have big egos. Listen to yourself.
Listen, johnny-come-lately, the market is already saturated with market driven drivel. Go eat it up. The world doesn't need any more of it. There's plenty already. FOSS is different, and that's a good thing. If you don't like it, go away. Believe it or not, some people really don't care about world domination, huge piles of cash, popularity contests, or cute ponies.
I'm using Dapper Drake right now on a machine that is also running the very latest Windows, w/
Why don't you try saying "thank you" sometime.
As much as I like ubuntu and can't wait until they provide
a release with Xgl, I have to wonder just how they plan
on doing this and still keep to Stallman's principal of
no non-gpl software installed by default.
How many computers will be able to run Xgl right out of the
box without the need to manually install the nVidia or
ATI drivers to get the necessary hardware acceleration?
This is part of a standard FUD tactic you'll get with any discussion of Linux. Somebody'll always post an anecdote about an esoteric piece of hardware they're unable to get to work, normally with the one specific distro of Linux that doesn't support it. It is a deliberate tactic to make it look like Linux has poor hardware support.
The best approach would be to let the mods do their work and it'd be -1 Troll in no time. Sadly, there are enough winshills with mod points to abuse that it'll be more likely to hit +5 Informative.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
This is linux - the developers *are* the users.
Then refer to it as "Ubuntu 6.06", and skip the codename.
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