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The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu

Posted by Soulskill on from the cry-havoc-and-let-slip-the-forks-of-war dept.

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?"

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  1. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by fatphil · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.)

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  2. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by X0563511 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will then? You're late to the party.

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  3. Re:bad @ biz by JonJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hahahahahahaha, what the actual fuck.

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  4. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by c0lo · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] 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...

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  5. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by denmarkw00t · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or for Slackware

    cd sweetapp
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-awesome --compile-flags="YEAAAHHH" ... ...
    .
    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
    ./configure --prefix=/usr/local ... ..
    make ..
    .
    .
    sudo make install
    cd ../sweetapp
    make clean ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --with-awesome --compile-flags="YEAAAHHH" ... .. ..
    make .. ...
    sudo make install
    sweetapp
    ld_config: Can't link library xoo.o, terminating
    .
    .
    .
    sudo rm -rf /

    Much easiser ;)