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The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu
jammag writes "According to this article, 'Whether Ubuntu is declining is still debatable. However, in the last couple of months, one thing is clear: internally and externally, its commercial arm Canonical appears to be throwing the idea of community overboard as though it was ballast in a balloon about to crash.' The author points out instances of community discontent and apparent ham-handedness on Mark Shuttleworth's part. Yet isn't this just routine kvetching in the open source community?"
It's the obvious "backward" step (and I don't mean that in a negative way, retreating from the dark alleyways MS has led U down is a good thing), but most of the people I know who actually liked U have moved sideways to Mint.
(As someone who's been on Debian for well over a decade, all I can say is "humbug!" to the lot of them, what with their fancy schmancy integrated desktop environments and wibbly-wobbly-window transitions, and crap like that.)
Also FatPhil on SoylentNews, id 863
Will then? You're late to the party.
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Red Hat is the Microsoft of the Linux world. When they eventually own (own as acting as gatekeepers to core projects) the whole stack, there won't be any room for startups like Canonical to come in an offer alternative technologies. Pretty soon Debian will die because it will become redundant since they'll just be packaging the same stuff from Fedora. They can barely keep up with the patching necessary in order to support systemd and Gnome while giving their users a choice of different technologies to use instead. As Red Hat makes everything more tightly interdependent on technologies which it produces, distros like Debian won't be able keep up.
Hahahahahahaha, what the actual fuck.
-- Linux user #369862
[...] my girlfriend's laptop, my girlfriend's daughter's laptop, [...]
I'm not sure who else all those people may have sold on Linux Mint, but they love to show it off (especially my girlfriend, to her friends at college).
I'm sure my story is not unique.
Unique? Maybe not, but again not that usual on /. You see, not many of us have girlfriends... at college... with daughters...
Questions raise, answers kill. Raise questions to stay alive.
Or for Slackware
cd sweetapp
./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-awesome --compile-flags="YEAAAHHH" ... ... ../
./configure --prefix=/usr/local ... .. .. ../sweetapp ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-awesome --compile-flags="YEAAAHHH" ... .. .. .. ... /
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Error can't find blah, version 2.x
cd
wget http://blah.someplace.com/source/blah.2.3.4.tgz
tar xzvf blah.2.3.4.tgz
cd blah.2.3.4-2013-10-02-0030
make
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sudo make install
cd
make clean
make
sudo make install
sweetapp
ld_config: Can't link library xoo.o, terminating
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sudo rm -rf
Much easiser ;)