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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. 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.

      --
      I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
  2. 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.