Yes, I think so too. The kerfuffle is beside the point. Mark will do as he wishes, as openly and as not, as he wishes. And even if one doesn't care for it, Ubuntu still is a pretty good version of Debian unstable to roll one's own with Fluxbox or Openbox. Or to use in its Xubuntu form.
Ubuntu is not becoming more or less open or closed. It's always been as it is, the SABDFL's distro. Thus it was brown, now it is bruise coloured; thus it was Warty, now it is cool to find Amazon suggestions in searching for files and applications. Ubuntu's main problem is that Mark says things. He should just do what he does and have another person speak for Ubuntu who won't have to "correct misperceptions" because they won't actually know what Mark is doing and so can just say nice things.
I'd buy a tablet running Ubunututu with Unity once they have a usable touch UI as I could then install the GTK apps I like. But they're farking around with the touch interface too, trying to chain together gestures.
Thinking a little longer about it, maybe this has implications in shipping/selling truly unencumbered pre-loaded hardware/virtual platforms based on Linux? Thanks to the lack of fear that some evil megacorp will come hunt you down for including a copyrighted wifi firmware in your seemingly harmless mini-firewall gadget. Maybe this has positive implications (although i am still not 100% convinced that it's just a show of idealism that will hurt Joe user.)
I really doubt the Debian community cares anything about that.
Yes, it's terrible. What I've found works best in terms of windows finding their right size on my Eee is Fluxbox. But I'm getting rid of the Ubuntu install as with all of my other computers and using either Debian, Linux Mint Debian Edition, or Crunchbang.
As I stated in another post on another thread (or maybe this one, who knows), "i4i" would be pronounced "Eye for Eye", as in "an eye for an eye".
It could be that the patent troll, in this case, is a group that acquired a few patents so they could stick it to Microsoft for the whole "FAT/NTFS" thing, or whatever. Microsoft's certainly got a lot of patent property and has used it to scare the bejeezus out of a lot of people in Penguinland.
Maybe "i4i" will suddenly announce a cross-licensing settlement with Microsoft where everyone (Microsoft included!) gets XML formats as long as everyone gets FAT, NTFS, and a few other Microsoft properties free for use.
So, yeah, that crack pipe's got some pretty good stuff, man, thanks for sharing. Whoo boy.
Applications open in a fraction of the time in Ubuntu 7.10 than they did in XP or Vista. About 1/5th.
I can plug in a camera, download the pictures, and have them open in the Gimp before Vista would recognize the camera.
The first Alpha of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) just came out. As the LTS, the infirmities of Feisty and Gutsy should all be worked out.
As for myself, I've had no problems at all in the upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 but then I only install from the repositories.
I'm buying one (and thus one for a kid somewhere).
I was looking for a FOSS, hackable, eBook reader for PDF tutorials on learning Python programming. The closest thing I could find was the Nokia n800 that could do all manner of things I don't need it for. The XO is designed to help kids learn to program in Python (and some other contexts).
While the OLPC project is flawed in many ways I am interested in it for the same reason I use Ubuntu rather than some other distro: broadening the informational context of people throughout the world in a manner that allows them to participate in rather than merely be subject to or consume what is merely available.
Food often does not get to the kids who need it. OLPC might help kids learn why and help them to be capable of changing that.
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Yes, I think so too. The kerfuffle is beside the point. Mark will do as he wishes, as openly and as not, as he wishes. And even if one doesn't care for it, Ubuntu still is a pretty good version of Debian unstable to roll one's own with Fluxbox or Openbox. Or to use in its Xubuntu form.
Ubuntu is not becoming more or less open or closed. It's always been as it is, the SABDFL's distro. Thus it was brown, now it is bruise coloured; thus it was Warty, now it is cool to find Amazon suggestions in searching for files and applications. Ubuntu's main problem is that Mark says things. He should just do what he does and have another person speak for Ubuntu who won't have to "correct misperceptions" because they won't actually know what Mark is doing and so can just say nice things.
Thanks. I had forgotten about Packard's involvement and appreciate the link.
+1
"Patenting software is more akin to patenting, say, plot elements in a book than actual physical inventions. " Excellent analogy.
... were easily solved with four little words:
"Ubuntu Classic (No Effects)"
I don't need eye candy. Perhaps I should give Xubuntu a look?
Yes. Or Debian with Xfce. Or Linux Mint Xfce. GNOME Shell is worse than Unity.
Exactly so. Xfce will be seeing a flood of GNOME refugees.
I'd buy a tablet running Ubunututu with Unity once they have a usable touch UI as I could then install the GTK apps I like. But they're farking around with the touch interface too, trying to chain together gestures.
+1
Anyway, Squeeze includes Chromium so who gives a damn about Iceweasel anyway!
That's how I decided what to do about Firefox and Iceweasel.
Spacefun. It's actually less hideous here than in the boot and GDM splashes. Another good reason to never reboot and seldom logout.
Try LMDE's live CD. If everything works, install it. LibreOffice and so on will come into testing once Sid is finished with it.
Thinking a little longer about it, maybe this has implications in shipping/selling truly unencumbered pre-loaded hardware/virtual platforms based on Linux? Thanks to the lack of fear that some evil megacorp will come hunt you down for including a copyrighted wifi firmware in your seemingly harmless mini-firewall gadget. Maybe this has positive implications (although i am still not 100% convinced that it's just a show of idealism that will hurt Joe user.)
I really doubt the Debian community cares anything about that.
Everybody Loves Eric Raymond.
Linux Mint Debian Edition
I agree entirely. They are not advancing the Linux desktop, they are putting out an Ubuntu desktop.
Yes, it's terrible. What I've found works best in terms of windows finding their right size on my Eee is Fluxbox. But I'm getting rid of the Ubuntu install as with all of my other computers and using either Debian, Linux Mint Debian Edition, or Crunchbang.
You co-wrote the bash Cookbook? I thought that book was terrible.
I thought it was great.
As I stated in another post on another thread (or maybe this one, who knows), "i4i" would be pronounced "Eye for Eye", as in "an eye for an eye".
It could be that the patent troll, in this case, is a group that acquired a few patents so they could stick it to Microsoft for the whole "FAT/NTFS" thing, or whatever. Microsoft's certainly got a lot of patent property and has used it to scare the bejeezus out of a lot of people in Penguinland.
Maybe "i4i" will suddenly announce a cross-licensing settlement with Microsoft where everyone (Microsoft included!) gets XML formats as long as everyone gets FAT, NTFS, and a few other Microsoft properties free for use.
So, yeah, that crack pipe's got some pretty good stuff, man, thanks for sharing. Whoo boy.
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There is a link to the source code on this page.
https://code.launchpad.net/~launchpad-pqm/launchpad/db-devel/
Clicked files, received "Internal Server Error."
Just to add: as am I. As Ballmer put it: "Developers, developers, developers!!" But also, "Maintainers, maintainers, maintainrs!!"
DaedalusHKX (660194), I agree completely and would mod you up if I only could.
Applications open in a fraction of the time in Ubuntu 7.10 than they did in XP or Vista. About 1/5th. I can plug in a camera, download the pictures, and have them open in the Gimp before Vista would recognize the camera.
The first Alpha of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) just came out. As the LTS, the infirmities of Feisty and Gutsy should all be worked out. As for myself, I've had no problems at all in the upgrade from 7.04 to 7.10 but then I only install from the repositories.
I'm buying one (and thus one for a kid somewhere). I was looking for a FOSS, hackable, eBook reader for PDF tutorials on learning Python programming. The closest thing I could find was the Nokia n800 that could do all manner of things I don't need it for. The XO is designed to help kids learn to program in Python (and some other contexts). While the OLPC project is flawed in many ways I am interested in it for the same reason I use Ubuntu rather than some other distro: broadening the informational context of people throughout the world in a manner that allows them to participate in rather than merely be subject to or consume what is merely available. Food often does not get to the kids who need it. OLPC might help kids learn why and help them to be capable of changing that.