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Mark Shuttleworth Reveals Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Glyn Moody writes "In an interview with the Guardian today, Mark Shuttleworth talks about the upcoming Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a tailored version for ultraportables, produced in collaboration with Intel." The new version of Ubuntu is barely mentioned in this interview, but it's tantalizing -- SUSE looks nice on the HP Mininotes, but for people who are used to and enjoy Ubuntu, it's an option to look forward to.
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MS Not close. It will require time and ongoing investment. We've positioned ourselves for what we see as the future of software - unlicensed software, people having access to the software that they want at the time that they want it. The service ecosystem around that software will fund it. And if we are the company that has best anticipated that future, then we will be best positioned to benefit from it. The bolding, of course, is mine - however the quote is from the article. This, my friends, is dangerous thinking right there.
The GPL **IS** a License -- It's right there in the name. Same goes for BSD, Apache, MIT, etc. They are licenses.
The notion that copyright or license don't exist or are evil is the downfall of free software, which exists only because of protection for so-called "imaginary property."
Ubuntu is unlicensed, eh? And everything that's included in it, eh? So I guess I can change some #IFDEF s, release a "new" operating system, and get rich, eh?
Free software is not "public domain," which is what unlicensed/uncopywritten means. And that means I can totally jack it and never have to admi to it -- not even in a BSDL fashion.
I'm starting to think that Shuttleworth might be moving up the "dangerous idiot" scale.
Of course, we know how well that works out, too.
Will they stop pointing fingers and actually attempt to fix Ubuntu killing hard drives on laptops?
I boot Ubuntu on this laptop, and it sounds like there's a midget inside of my laptop with a Nintendo Zapper. "clicka clicka clicka" every other minute.
The "fix" of just turning off all power management isn't a fix.
Probably for most users, Ubuntu is the best distribution for their situation (if they've fixed the wi-fi hassle, that is), or at least as good as any other options. Expert users will have a better idea what distro they need, but they're probably not looking for an alternative to Windows.
Since Ubuntu seems pretty serious about ushering in the Year of the Linux Desktop, yes, we may be soon seeing millions of clueless Ubuntu users.
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I feel the same way as you. I want to know what happened to GNU/Linux. "Huh? what's GNU/Linux? when I type in GNU in google it sends me to sum website wer i cant dl the dvd?!!111" I dunno. It's like distributions with good commericial advertising are completely different OSs. They're all the same. I'll continue to install "linux" via the slackware distro, and install it with all the added GUI goodness included that new users want. It's simple, not bloated with shit, and with a well compiled kernel.
I don't think Linux will ever leave it's development stage for a while. However, preinstalled OSs, and specific hardware is something different.
what i fucking hate is how they seem to plug their logo into open source software. I've seen this with OpenSUSE and Ubuntu. wanna use OpenOffice.org? well too bad, you're using OO.o OPENSUSE EDITION (imagine seeing the OO.o splash loading but instead of the classic splash you just see a big fat gecko penis with "OpenOffice.org" tattooed into it)