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Ubuntu Unity Ported To Fedora Using OpenSUSE

Posted by timothy on from the say-that-three-times-fast dept.

sfcrazy writes "The general tendency within the open source community is to a whole new wheel to push your own cart. A majority of open source projects are suffering from duplication. Luckily, we just noticed a great example of such collaboration (or using resources by different competing projects) within the distro community. Ubuntu's popular Unity shell is being ported to Fedora (the distro which leads the development of Gnome shell and its also the breeding ground of many latest technologies which are used by the rest of the GNU/Linux world). Interestingly developers users openSUSE's build service to create this port. openSUSE leads the development of Gnome and KDE along with LibreOffice." Calling Unity "popular" seems like a stretch, but it's certainly where a lot of Ubuntu work has been lavished; the cooperation that open source code fosters at least lets whoever wants to use or develop it do so.

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  1. Re:Great, sort of by damien_kane · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not only that, but the tests themselves were biased.

    Case in point, a "blind" taste-test offered at a local waterpark that I was at as a teenager, with signs all around it clearly defining it as the "Pepsi Challenge"
    This particular taste test was giving out prizes/awards. I had noticed that some people walked away with a bottle of pepsi, and some walked away with a chocolate bar, but nobody got to choose (they were simply being handed the prize).

    I (correctly) assumed that those who chose Pepsi as the favorite received the beverage, and those who chose coke got the snack.
    I prefer Coke, but I was thirsty and I knew which tasted like which. I chose Pepsi, and got a free beverage.
    I told my friends, they attempted, and all got the same result.

    At that point it wasn't a contest of coke vs pepsi, it was a contest of free beverage vs free snack on a hot, sunny day in a waterpark.

  2. Unity better than Gnome Shell by k(wi)r(kipedia) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Come on Unity is much better than Gnome Shell (of course, classic Gnome 2 is better than both). Just one reason why Gnome Shell is bad: you got clickable elements on all four sides of the default (Home) screen. In Unity, only the right side and the top are significant, similar to the Mac and Gnome 2, where the bottom (the dock in the case of the Mac) and top are significant.