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Ask Matt Asay About Ubuntu and Canonical
A week after the announcement that open source advocate and blogger Matt Asay is leaving Alfresco for Canonical, in the role of COO, Matt has agreed to answer your questions about his role at Canonical, his vision for the future of Ubuntu, or the prospects for open source as we begin to emerge from recession. Usual Slashdot interview rules apply. (Disclaimer: Matt is on the board of advisors for Slashdot's parent company, Geeknet.)
How come NESticle and Stella (emulators) work flawlessly on Windoze but only play one-quarter of the roms on Ubuntu?
How come I can't connect to my Netscape dialup ISP?
Why can't I find a simple way to look-up my computer's RAM space, or how many tasks are running, or to kill a misbehaving process?
Why when I switch to 640x480 mode (gaming), why doesn't the desktop properties window fit (thereby leaving me stuck)?
Why, when I tried to upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04, was I told that I don't have permission to change the folders on my laptop?
Why can't I get Opera Browser installed?
Why. Is. Ubuntu Linux. So. Damn. Unfriendly? Hell my ancient Amiga 500 or Quadra Macs are easier to use.
And no this is not a troll. :-)
It's an opinion.
Learn the difference mod.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
... I was just wondering if there were plans to move the default color scheme away from burnt orange.
It just seems that if Ubuntu wants to appeal to more mainstream users, a good approach would be to have a color scheme that doesn't look like a desert wasteland.
Will Ubuntu continue to periodically suck my focus away from whatever task I'm doing with sociopathic notifications that refuse to leave until they're good and ready, however politely I ask.
Will Ubuntu avoid unnecessarily fiddling with applications as part of the default install [OK Pidgin/Empathy is the only case I can think of]
How much influence over Debian's future direction does Canonical have?
[Disclaimer: Big fan of Ubuntu, use it for most server installations and al personal desktops.]
1) When will you release a truly up to the job KDE Release, or even better, FIRE the ENTIRE KUBUNTU dev team and hire Boo and the dev's from KMint aka Linux Mint KDE CE.
They clean up Kubuntu's crap distro each and every release and make it PERFECT, KDE 4.x aside, PERFECT! ! !
KDE needs to be the DEFAULT and only main desktop.. Offer lxde, xfce etc. for the tasks and areas they are suited for, gnome needs to go!
2) When will you REMOVE mono and gnome and miguel who is tainting your distro with his programs and DE? mono has no place in any distro, period. mono and miguel need to go! Now is the time! New COO, New X DE, clean house and get the disease out of the distro!
3) How do you plan to make software installs easier for users to encourage migration from that other os?
4) How are you going to curb the "google is your friend" and the "When are you going the fix or feature code then?" attitudes that hamper desktop Linux adoption.
5) Whats you plan and vision for Linux in general and Ubuntu specifically for the next year, 5, 10 years?
1311393600 - Back to Black
So how much did you pay for ubuntu?
Yahoo deal not dangerous? So let's recap.
Microsoft tried to do a hostile buyout of Yahoo. Yahoo's CEO was forced to resign and a Microsoft sponsored individual - Carol Bartz - Sponsored by Carl Icahn - replaces Yang. Now MS has a revenue deal with Yahoo, magically approved almost immediately after Carol comes in, and you don't think it's suspicious?
Next Ubuntu does a deal with Yahoo and you don't suspect anything suspicious?
The fud is you, my good sir.
Also Debian has not found it legally safe to keep Mono, lest you keep your spin in another thread, my microsoftie. Mono is legally unclear - much like any other microsoft covenant.