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A Conversation with Ubuntu's Jono Bacon (Video)
You've probably heard Jono Bacon speak at a Linux or Open Source conference. Or maybe you've heard one of his podcasts or read something he's written in his job as Ubuntu's community manager or even, perhaps, read The Art of Community, which is Jono's well-regarded book about building online communities. Jono also wrote and performed the heavy metal version of Richard M. Stallman's infamous composition, The Free Software Song. An excerpt from the Jono version kicks off our interview, and the complete piece (about two minutes long) closes the video. Please note that this video is a casual talk with Jono Bacon, the person, rather than a talk with the "official" Ubuntu Jono Bacon. So please, pull up a chair, lean back, and join us. (Alternate Video Link)
mmmm Bacon
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
It actually gave me a "less evil" .mp4 when I changed the user-agent string to "iPad".
As soon as the open source world produces something better than h.264, I'm sure everyone will rush to adopt it.
Lots of people just want a tool that works, not a tool that functions better as an ideological statement than as a media player.
I click the link, video looks decent enough, loads fast enough.
-I only code in BASIC.-
The important thing was that it wasn't Flash. ./ refused to give me anything but Flash until I did that.
I thought it was for "can't configure Debian".
You've probably heard Jono Bacon speak at a Linux or Open Source conference
Nope.
Or maybe you've heard one of his podcasts
Nope.
or read something he's written in his job as Ubuntu's community manager
Nope
read The Art of Community, which is Jono's well-regarded book about building online communities.
Aaaaaaand, nope.
Damn, I thought you were joking but his moobs put most women to shame.
It is times like these I am reminded of the Orangutan.
The lean younger and over active orangutan males fail to impress most females. Instead they seek out the longer survived, more experienced, and gentler male with his hair covered bigness and prominent cheek pads.
If they could speak their ladies would say, "I want a real man, not a scrawny thin-headed sucker who's tits and tool-shed haven't come in yet and doesn't even reek."
It's as if nature finds perverse pleasure in mocking us by keeping examples of happiness around in branches of life's tree to remind us of the price we paid for our souls.
Does anyone in the open source community even care what anyone from Canonica/Ubuntu has to say anymore? They've basically ostrasized themselves to anyone I know who cares about Linux.
As soon as the open source world produces something better than h.264, I'm sure everyone will rush to adopt it.
Because the market always chooses the best technology for the job? Next you'll be telling us that the best musicians end up at the top of the pop charts!
This video is a total waste of time. Key point not discussed: UNITY SUCKS!
That's fine if you don't care about your health and you're trying to pick up on female monkeys.
Not entirely true. The container standard does actually specify supported formats. Now you can put unsupported formats into the container but there's no guarantee any specific parser written to the standard will support them.
Removing Dash/shopping and adding Classicmenu makes for a system that's easy to navigate.
Having people text-search for everything all at once--when all they want is that banking or other occasional tool they run occasionally (what's the name?)--and getting tons of cruft in the results just isn't working.
I remember him saying that he did his video casts on Windows because Ubuntu wouldn't support his own hardware. I guess if your own dog food doesn't work you can't eat it.
I agree, I stopped using Ubuntu because of Dash, not really because of the sidebar. It's too big and bloated. I want a classic menu.
Are the comments in this thread surprising? Nope.
A community manager for a company that is discarding it's community. Bacon should polish his resume, he might need it.
The comments (and lack of) aren't surprising, anything out of canonical is just noise. What's more, he's partnered with Bryan Lunduke to create a Linux podcast. A shock-jock broadcaster/writer and unabashed peddler of mediocre (junk, really) software, A man who flirts with open-sourcing his software on-and-off, with the sole purpose of scamming a few more people into giving him money.
I really don't envy Jono Bacon. The guy doesn't have much in the way of marketable skills but he managed to land a good paying gig thanks to his LugRadio fame. Then Canonical went to the dark side and now every time Mark Shuttleworth does something evil, Jono has to go around apologizing. The day Mark starts eating children (or whatever), it'll be Jono going around saying: "Come on, what's the big deal? We've all thought about it."
As soon as the open source world produces something better than h.264, I'm sure everyone will rush to adopt it.
Because the market always chooses the best technology for the job? Next you'll be telling us that the best musicians end up at the top of the pop charts!
No they don't, but if you intend to replace an incumbent then you need to offer something better, not something "almost" as good.
Removing Dash/shopping and adding Classicmenu makes for a system that's easy to navigate.
If it was not for the quicklists I would dump Unity.
How do you remove the dash?
Haven't you heard? They're getting ready to roll out x265 now.
Unity? Screw that: XFCE. Slashdot Beta? Screw that: SoylentNews. Australis? Screw that: Pale Moon. UX developers DIAF