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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. No it is not kvetching. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Informative

    Ubuntu takes a perfectly good Debian and fucks it up.

    They have almost zero feed back to the Linux kernel development or elsewhere.

    Recently they have even had the nerve to ask for money to do this hack job.

    I have no idea what Mark's idea was with all this but who the hell needs it?

  2. I switched to CentOS and never looked back by rovitotv · · Score: 5, Informative

    The stability of CentOS is great. I don't get all the fancy features but I don't want those anyway as they just get in the way. At work when we need something supported we just use RedHat and pay for the support. Moving development between CentOS and RedHat is totally transparent to me.

    1. Re:I switched to CentOS and never looked back by msobkow · · Score: 4, Informative

      Oracle "Unbreakable" Linux, on the other hand, was broken by one of their updates within 3 months of me installing it. Fedora wouldn't run what I needed. Ubuntu messed me up with a system update, so I'm back on Debian myself.

      I'd rather run slightly older stable software than the latest bleeding edge and losing my system.

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      I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
  3. Not a Linux User Then by tuppe666 · · Score: 4, Informative

    The 'linux communities' have all devolved into petty little fiefdoms of some degree.

    Except its a lie, As both a Gentoo and a Ubuntu user. I have enjoyed massive support both though chat and forums, and bug reports. In fact on a whole most OS communities are pretty helpful including those of Windows/Mac. People on the whole like to help.

  4. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by armanox · · Score: 3, Informative

    RHEL doesn't have GNOME 3 yet...

    It boils down to Red Hat is the name business knows. And relies on for support. The Fedora Project, aside from being a testing ground for RHEL, is very involved in upstream development, as is Red Hat in general. Thus giving RH/FC a solid standing with a lot of people.

    Plus, Red Hat offers more products then just Linux for workstations and servers.

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    I'm starting to think GNU is the problem with "GNU/Linux" these days.
  5. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by mrclisdue · · Score: 3, Informative

    (cough)slackware(cough)

    cheers,

  6. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by epyT-R · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was a time when the majority of slashdot readers WOULD know how to get an in-development project like wayland up and running on their boxes, regardless of distro..

  7. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by mvdwege · · Score: 3, Informative

    X is obsolete

    X is mature. That's not the same thing, young grasshopper

    As for modern hardware? It works just fine as long as it has supported drivers, and Wayland & co have exactly the same prerequisite.

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    "I know I will be modded down for this": where's the option '-1, Asking for it'?
  8. Re:So we should ditch Ubuntu and then by kthreadd · · Score: 3, Informative

    From what I've heard from the X developers themselves is thta the code base is doing a lot of things it wasn't designed for and is in need for some major refactoring and rethinking, to the point where it makes sense to just start over with something completely new.