1. A Refined Unity >"icons in the launcher will be able to display count badges or progress meters to reflect the state of the underlying application"
2. GNOME 3
Will people now stop posting "you can just choose class Gnome before login!"? Prediction: Neither Unity nor Gnome3 will have the functionality that Just Worked fine before, and was letting people get their work done.
3. Evolution -- or Thunderbird?
Even though I use Thunderbird (I prefer to have the same client across computers, plus it has great dynamic folders), I don't agree with switching applications on a whim every few releases.
Pitivi to be dropped F-Spot => Shotwell Evolution => Thunderbird Firefox => Chromium
4. No LibreOffice?
First they drop GIMP, now the OpenOffice clone, too? So what exactly will you be able to do with a live CD? I guess they had to make space for Unity chrome.
5. Chromium Instead of Firefox?
See #3. Also, it's not as if there's actual functionality missing from Firefox (unlike, say with the move from Pidgin to Empathy). Gratuitous changes. The Ubuntu trademark. "Ubuntu is safe, intuitive and stable" haha.
6. No Computer Janitor or PiTiVi
They just added it (Pitivi) a few releases ago!
7. LightDM Instead of GDM
Good if it works. But Ubuntu has a history of messing these things up.
8. Deja Dup by Default
It's a backup utility. Could be good, depends on integration. Does it work with Ubuntu One?
9. Ubuntu Software Center
>"the Ubuntu Software Center is also slated to get a number of enhancements, including improved integration with Unity and a simplified user interface."
How much simpler could it get?
>"I don't know about you, but I'm already champing at the bit to test it out."
Isn't the latest Debian Squeeze (6.0)? Why would you run Sid? (An Ubuntu user looking to get into Debian).
Also, on debian.org, it says (somewhere) that stuff is pushed into testing automatically (according to some given criteria), therefore they don't recommend it as a distribution. Comments?
Well, OK, not all languages. Just English would be fine. And then people in non-English speaking countries can adapt it. (Sort of like on the model of English Wikipedia -> others.)
And, granted, stuff like national history would be different for various countries, but math and science, also (to a great extent) English, should be the same.
Here's hoping this will be successful. Meanwhile, is there a complete, online, free curriculum?
One which would tell you, like maybe in a lesson-plan format, what to teach everyday? Say, either for a homeschool, rural school, or independent school (religious/hippie/whatever)?
I mean, Ubuntu (and Gnome) have really jumped over the deep end on this: -menus that are hidden until you move your mouse all the way to the top of the screen -scrollbars that are hidden until you move to a specific position near the side of a window (what happened to Fitts Law there?) -typing and searching for applications that you don't know are there -removal of the window control menu (used to be non the left side). Now you're supposed to know to do Alt+Space, if that'll even work in the latest/upcoming versions -hold down Alt or log out in order to be able to shut down the computer?
This after legions of geeks have lectured normal people on the fact that they shouldn't press the buttons to turn off a computer, they should use Shut Down, and that using the button would be like suddenly shifting to reverse when you're going 60mph (assuming your car would let you do that).
First, LTS are no better than so-called "normal" releases in the area of bugs or refraining from adding stuff that breaks (PulseAudio).
Second, who directs them to their LTS releases? "Their" must refer to Ubuntu, and they certainly don't direct anybody to an LTS release.
re: LightDM- this actually seems like a sensible move, like the old Ubuntu would make (things that improve functionality without sacrificing compatibility, like Upstart).
>But with the major trend setting distro making these changes, it forces everyone to re-evaluate and that is the best thing that can happen.
OK. Whatever. Trend-setting, fancy, etc. Great.
But explain this: "Ubuntu for business: Secure, reliable and with no licence fees, businesses everywhere are using Ubuntu to reduce costs and boost performance."
"Perfect for business use, Ubuntu is safe, intuitive and stable. Easy to integrate, you'll be able to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and share them with Windows users stress-free."
How is it stable when it's changing major stuff left and right every version with huge bugs. How is it intuitive when it hides the menus, hides the scrollbar (!), and possibly even Shut Down? How is it stress-free when it forces you to learn yet another interface to be able to accomplish the same stuff you were doing just fine before?
Sorry, what? "Just hold down Alt"? Or log out first?
All this, and also the blather about how they're making it easier for newbs? Too rich.
Why do you call shutting down superficial? Most people have their own computers, and they don't log out so someone can log in. The common use scenario is not a public library computer. People want to turn their computers off, hopefully in the "approved" manner that we geeks have been drilling into them.
It's not a couple ms to log out. It takes many seconds, often fractions of a minute.
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1. A Refined Unity
>"icons in the launcher will be able to display count badges or progress meters to reflect the state of the underlying application"
2. GNOME 3
Will people now stop posting "you can just choose class Gnome before login!"? Prediction: Neither Unity nor Gnome3 will have the functionality that Just Worked fine before, and was letting people get their work done.
3. Evolution -- or Thunderbird?
Even though I use Thunderbird (I prefer to have the same client across computers, plus it has great dynamic folders), I don't agree with switching applications on a whim every few releases.
Pitivi to be dropped
F-Spot => Shotwell
Evolution => Thunderbird
Firefox => Chromium
4. No LibreOffice?
First they drop GIMP, now the OpenOffice clone, too? So what exactly will you be able to do with a live CD? I guess they had to make space for Unity chrome.
5. Chromium Instead of Firefox?
See #3. Also, it's not as if there's actual functionality missing from Firefox (unlike, say with the move from Pidgin to Empathy). Gratuitous changes. The Ubuntu trademark. "Ubuntu is safe, intuitive and stable " haha.
6. No Computer Janitor or PiTiVi
They just added it (Pitivi) a few releases ago!
7. LightDM Instead of GDM
Good if it works. But Ubuntu has a history of messing these things up.
8. Deja Dup by Default
It's a backup utility. Could be good, depends on integration. Does it work with Ubuntu One?
9. Ubuntu Software Center
>"the Ubuntu Software Center is also slated to get a number of enhancements, including improved integration with Unity and a simplified user interface."
How much simpler could it get?
>"I don't know about you, but I'm already champing at the bit to test it out."
Dreading it already.
Isn't the latest Debian Squeeze (6.0)? Why would you run Sid? (An Ubuntu user looking to get into Debian).
Also, on debian.org, it says (somewhere) that stuff is pushed into testing automatically (according to some given criteria), therefore they don't recommend it as a distribution. Comments?
Well, OK, not all languages. Just English would be fine. And then people in non-English speaking countries can adapt it. (Sort of like on the model of English Wikipedia -> others.)
And, granted, stuff like national history would be different for various countries, but math and science, also (to a great extent) English, should be the same.
Here's hoping this will be successful. Meanwhile, is there a complete, online, free curriculum?
One which would tell you, like maybe in a lesson-plan format, what to teach everyday? Say, either for a homeschool, rural school, or independent school (religious/hippie/whatever)?
The resources here seem incomplete:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_curriculum
Does anybody know if you can just pre-encrypt data, and set that as your "backup directory" before you send it off to Dropbox, Carbonite, or whatever?
Steam is usually the gaming conglomerate that's most often mentioned on /. . (I only bother to play the free games in the Ubuntu repository.)
Well, mongodb is being used by a lot of "cloudy" web 2.0 companies (Shutterfly, Foursquare, Bitly, and others).
It doesn't use XML or YAML, but you can build hierarchical structures with JSON because it's basically a free-form database.
What sort of application would need thousands of nodes (other than Facebook)?
It does automatic sharding (horizontal partitioning), with eventual consistency.
Is that the same thing Disney would say if someone came out with a Mickey Mouse FPS character?
Wait, so the penultimate ruling (the one before this one) was in favor of Rambus?
Also, I thought the courts were supposed to view a party as guilty by default if they destroy evidence.
>such as where a driver is headed at the time of a departure
Welcome, I am Ford Bob for Car$. Are you trying to go to your drug dealer, today?
>discoverable
This.
I mean, Ubuntu (and Gnome) have really jumped over the deep end on this:
-menus that are hidden until you move your mouse all the way to the top of the screen
-scrollbars that are hidden until you move to a specific position near the side of a window (what happened to Fitts Law there?)
-typing and searching for applications that you don't know are there
-removal of the window control menu (used to be non the left side). Now you're supposed to know to do Alt+Space, if that'll even work in the latest/upcoming versions
-hold down Alt or log out in order to be able to shut down the computer?
This after legions of geeks have lectured normal people on the fact that they shouldn't press the buttons to turn off a computer, they should use Shut Down, and that using the button would be like suddenly shifting to reverse when you're going 60mph (assuming your car would let you do that).
You can't even do this the way Ubuntu is configured. Kill X, and it restarts.
No kidding. It's not like we're talking about printing the contents /etc/passwd when someone so much as knocks on port 22.
What do your "normal" friends/family think of the new Gnome/buntu interfaces (Gnome3/Unity)?
I was under the impression that they have 58 "artists" on Macs and 2 developers.
Not another post about LTS!
First, LTS are no better than so-called "normal" releases in the area of bugs or refraining from adding stuff that breaks (PulseAudio).
Second, who directs them to their LTS releases? "Their" must refer to Ubuntu, and they certainly don't direct anybody to an LTS release.
re: LightDM- this actually seems like a sensible move, like the old Ubuntu would make (things that improve functionality without sacrificing compatibility, like Upstart).
>But with the major trend setting distro making these changes, it forces everyone to re-evaluate and that is the best thing that can happen.
OK. Whatever. Trend-setting, fancy, etc. Great.
But explain this:
"Ubuntu for business: Secure, reliable and with no licence fees, businesses everywhere are using Ubuntu to reduce costs and boost performance."
"Perfect for business use, Ubuntu is safe, intuitive and stable. Easy to integrate, you'll be able to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and share them with Windows users stress-free."
How is it stable when it's changing major stuff left and right every version with huge bugs. How is it intuitive when it hides the menus, hides the scrollbar (!), and possibly even Shut Down? How is it stress-free when it forces you to learn yet another interface to be able to accomplish the same stuff you were doing just fine before?
And reliable? Haha.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konami_Code for those who don't get it.
Sorry, what? "Just hold down Alt"? Or log out first?
All this, and also the blather about how they're making it easier for newbs? Too rich.
Why do you call shutting down superficial? Most people have their own computers, and they don't log out so someone can log in. The common use scenario is not a public library computer. People want to turn their computers off, hopefully in the "approved" manner that we geeks have been drilling into them.
It's not a couple ms to log out. It takes many seconds, often fractions of a minute.
Hehe, he mispelled "for all intensive purposes".
Although the idea of making a phone call on a tablet seems weird, making a video call does not.
Does anybody know why Google decided to make all their Android web pages, like the link above, not able to be scrolled unless you're using Javascript?
There are plenty of websites that require Javascript to function properly, but none (other than Android's) that require it just to scroll.
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2010/04/multitasking-android-way.html
Do apps immediately save all state when you switch to another app? Or does they wait until they get an "unload" message from the OS?
With all this extra bandwidth, AT&T will up their quotas from 150GB to 200GB!