With all the closed source code we see every day we can judge their competency in documenting their code.
Open source won't advance without others being able to read and modify the code. They must be doing something right if the good packages keep getting better.
The man's tasked with selling to Latin America. Don't you think all of Latin America knows how to take this guy? I'm sure now he seems more incompetent than Open Source to them, and probably more or less impotent.
And, if you want to use Wine, then do so, otherwise don't. It isn't a required app in order to run Linux. The people that develop wine are not the same as those developing Ubuntu. And, how hard is it to understand that there are many projects under windows that don't seem to get anywhere near the scrutiny of Linux yet perform worse with fewer features and costs a pretty penny to buy?
I'm late to the party here. But as far as the usability issues, at least the first part, he was wrong on all counts. When I try to run adobe AIR on any computer I have to first install it after downloading. If Adobe can't get their system set up properly and provide a proper.deb file that's not Ubuntu's fault. That is after all a 3rd party proprietary product. When it comes to workspaces that is pure preference. He tries to make it out as if that's a usability feature but in reality you can just shut it off and use a single desktop. As far as pinning to the task bar, well, that's brand new in Win7 and hasn't been part of it for what now, 2 decades? Not really proper way to judge a budding OS. And, as far as docks go, there are plenty of them for Linux.
Google chrome for windows violates the interface rules for Linux. It essentially goes against the environment. The buttons on the left are no different than the buttons on the left under Mac OS X. Switching the buttons back to the right is a trivial task in Ubuntu. There are even simple one click solutions to get it done.
Microsoft paid the organization that holds the patent on MP3s for the right to include it into all copies of their OS. They were sued by that organization and lost, loosing over a billion dollars, when they stopped paying because they stated they assumed the license was in perpetuity. So, the only reason it is there is because Microsoft paid to have it there. In versions of Windows, prior to Vista, you had to pay for the ability to play back DVDs. In Linux it is no different. But, if you attempt to play a DVD or an mp3 the first time the system will prompt you to install the proper codec with the warning that it is proprietary and might require you to pay for a license.
If you want glitz without the depth (things used to be different) you can install Amarok. It has plenty of glitz, though it has changed to the point that it disappoints those who used it before the 2.x release.
No PCs come with a free edition of Office Starter. Every copy is a trial edition. Usually giving you 30 days and then you get to pay for it if you like it. Having a few models come with this is sort of silly in comparison to a full featured office product that is free and pre-installed.
Having no Linux version of iTunes is not the fault of Linux, nor Ubuntu. Having encrypted information that is supposed to only be decrypted by iTunes is also not the fault of Linux. The iPhone issue is a non-starter. As far as an iPod goes you can use gtdpod to take full advantage and not have to deal with Apple's rather assuming iTunes player.
They were transferring a 200mb file. The upside is that the 2gig card they used can hold 10x that. Imagine adding multiple 16gig (or better) cards. Sort of blows broadband out of the water.
A couple weeks ago I pulled 2gig and 4gig cards out of the washer. I let them sit for a couple days and tried them. They worked -- all the data was still there.
I have had people come to me repeatedly and say that they were impressed with Linux, most importantly with the stability. I never have people tell me how impressed they are with Windows.
And those that do tell me are novices that are retired. They like the software, the OS, and that it's all free.
Right there you know the stats are misrepresenting Linux's market share.
I certainly wouldn't be saying that Honda has a small market share for their motorcycles due to only seeing a few at a Harley Davidson motorcycle rally.
And, though you may think Honda has a low market share for motorcycles here in the US, in Japan that's what the company is known for, not cars.
If you take 1 billion installs of Windows world-wide, then you sum up the Canonical and Red Hat stated known unique installs of their distributions, and then add up the other distributions the total comes to around 40 to 50 million. That brings the total for Linux up around 4-5%, not l.5%
Of the sites that track that information only those that don't have a good methodology give such low numbers to Linux. Those sites that track 50,000 or more sites over a 5 to 10 year period demonstrate that Linux has around 4% of the market. None of those numbers include server installs nor gadget installs.
Apple has more share than Linux so that gives them around 6% or more.
The problem is that most sites don't track world-wide use. There are large parts of the world that don't speak English yet still browse the web without visiting those English language sites. Does one care to venture a guess on how many of those are not included?
And if you took the total of illegitimate installs and ruled them out, Windows market share would be less.
Mark Shuttleworth just made note of at least two contracts for support totalling around 30,000 installs.
Linux has about 40-50 million users. That's a given as Canonical states they have 12 million unique installs and Red Hat states they have about 24 million unique installs. None of the numbers include servers. With the rest of the distros you can be guaranteed the remaining 6-16 million world wide. And that doesn't include those that they can't count. I myself have 13 installs of Ubuntu, and one of Centos.
That makes the market share around 4-5% for Linux. The Mac has overtaken Linux in market share. That pretty much leaves about 80% or slightly more for Windows. Nonetheless, anyone targeting 40 to 50 million users can't go wrong.
Microsoft also eliminates XP as a candidate for the performance gains as they are mostly acquired through the video acceleration. That's 80% of Microsoft's 80% market share that won't benefit.
Those that do use IE9 will still be riddled with all the security issues of the past.
I couldn't tell right away what was wrong with the picture of that browser until I noticed where the tabs were located. Don't think I'd take that approach. Firefox and Chrome both put the tabs on their own row.
I'm a regular Ubuntu user. I use it on 13 machines in my shop and personal life. Having it done and well integrated with easily obtainable extras makes my life much easier. From less powerful to my most powerful this product just seems to work. So, to that end I do thank Mark Shuttleworth for his efforts and I hope he realizes that he has made other's lives better.
Not everyone contributes back to society or to the world at large in equal measure. Canonical does some things that others don't and others do what Canonical doesn't. To use code contributions to the kernel and to Gnome as a measuring stick just doesn't seem right. Let's be smart and look at the overall effect this has on the world.
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Amazingly quick fix. Sounds like those guys were doing a good job. Tiny change and it worked.
My last two wireless issues on Windows based laptops took me hours to fix. My job is to repair computers and I have done so for 25 years or so.
I think your solution is fantastic. I can't imagine what you would have done if you had to figure out those types of issues by yourself.
And, this isn't the first time in the past week that someone's said that Fedora 13 was not to their liking.
With all the closed source code we see every day we can judge their competency in documenting their code.
Open source won't advance without others being able to read and modify the code. They must be doing something right if the good packages keep getting better.
The man's tasked with selling to Latin America. Don't you think all of Latin America knows how to take this guy? I'm sure now he seems more incompetent than Open Source to them, and probably more or less impotent.
Linux is not trying to be a clone of Windows.
And, if you want to use Wine, then do so, otherwise don't. It isn't a required app in order to run Linux. The people that develop wine are not the same as those developing Ubuntu. And, how hard is it to understand that there are many projects under windows that don't seem to get anywhere near the scrutiny of Linux yet perform worse with fewer features and costs a pretty penny to buy?
I'm late to the party here. But as far as the usability issues, at least the first part, he was wrong on all counts. When I try to run adobe AIR on any computer I have to first install it after downloading. If Adobe can't get their system set up properly and provide a proper .deb file that's not Ubuntu's fault. That is after all a 3rd party proprietary product. When it comes to workspaces that is pure preference. He tries to make it out as if that's a usability feature but in reality you can just shut it off and use a single desktop. As far as pinning to the task bar, well, that's brand new in Win7 and hasn't been part of it for what now, 2 decades? Not really proper way to judge a budding OS. And, as far as docks go, there are plenty of them for Linux.
Google chrome for windows violates the interface rules for Linux. It essentially goes against the environment. The buttons on the left are no different than the buttons on the left under Mac OS X. Switching the buttons back to the right is a trivial task in Ubuntu. There are even simple one click solutions to get it done.
Microsoft paid the organization that holds the patent on MP3s for the right to include it into all copies of their OS. They were sued by that organization and lost, loosing over a billion dollars, when they stopped paying because they stated they assumed the license was in perpetuity. So, the only reason it is there is because Microsoft paid to have it there. In versions of Windows, prior to Vista, you had to pay for the ability to play back DVDs. In Linux it is no different. But, if you attempt to play a DVD or an mp3 the first time the system will prompt you to install the proper codec with the warning that it is proprietary and might require you to pay for a license.
If you want glitz without the depth (things used to be different) you can install Amarok. It has plenty of glitz, though it has changed to the point that it disappoints those who used it before the 2.x release.
No PCs come with a free edition of Office Starter. Every copy is a trial edition. Usually giving you 30 days and then you get to pay for it if you like it. Having a few models come with this is sort of silly in comparison to a full featured office product that is free and pre-installed.
Having no Linux version of iTunes is not the fault of Linux, nor Ubuntu. Having encrypted information that is supposed to only be decrypted by iTunes is also not the fault of Linux. The iPhone issue is a non-starter. As far as an iPod goes you can use gtdpod to take full advantage and not have to deal with Apple's rather assuming iTunes player.
They were transferring a 200mb file. The upside is that the 2gig card they used can hold 10x that. Imagine adding multiple 16gig (or better) cards. Sort of blows broadband out of the water.
A couple weeks ago I pulled 2gig and 4gig cards out of the washer. I let them sit for a couple days and tried them. They worked -- all the data was still there.
With the same missile system the US military uses on their drones.
I believe the pidgeon would beat the station wagon as it doesn't have to stop signs, other driver, traffic speeds, and bad maps to follow.
Don't worry, you didn't miss much. Just an attempt at a 3d pan and zoom image. The clip was 29 seconds.
I have had people come to me repeatedly and say that they were impressed with Linux, most importantly with the stability. I never have people tell me how impressed they are with Windows.
And those that do tell me are novices that are retired. They like the software, the OS, and that it's all free.
Right there you know the stats are misrepresenting Linux's market share.
I certainly wouldn't be saying that Honda has a small market share for their motorcycles due to only seeing a few at a Harley Davidson motorcycle rally.
And, though you may think Honda has a low market share for motorcycles here in the US, in Japan that's what the company is known for, not cars.
How important are the numbers? Let me ask it another way.
What's the market share of custom built computers? If it is around 10% why would anyone not consider that to be a significant number?
Taken into perspective for the first couple years that Windows 3.x was being adopted there were far fewer than 10 million installs.
If you take 1 billion installs of Windows world-wide, then you sum up the Canonical and Red Hat stated known unique installs of their distributions, and then add up the other distributions the total comes to around 40 to 50 million. That brings the total for Linux up around 4-5%, not l.5%
Of the sites that track that information only those that don't have a good methodology give such low numbers to Linux. Those sites that track 50,000 or more sites over a 5 to 10 year period demonstrate that Linux has around 4% of the market. None of those numbers include server installs nor gadget installs.
Apple has more share than Linux so that gives them around 6% or more.
The problem is that most sites don't track world-wide use. There are large parts of the world that don't speak English yet still browse the web without visiting those English language sites. Does one care to venture a guess on how many of those are not included?
And if you took the total of illegitimate installs and ruled them out, Windows market share would be less.
Mark Shuttleworth just made note of at least two contracts for support totalling around 30,000 installs.
Linux has about 40-50 million users. That's a given as Canonical states they have 12 million unique installs and Red Hat states they have about 24 million unique installs. None of the numbers include servers. With the rest of the distros you can be guaranteed the remaining 6-16 million world wide. And that doesn't include those that they can't count. I myself have 13 installs of Ubuntu, and one of Centos.
That makes the market share around 4-5% for Linux. The Mac has overtaken Linux in market share. That pretty much leaves about 80% or slightly more for Windows. Nonetheless, anyone targeting 40 to 50 million users can't go wrong.
Microsoft also eliminates XP as a candidate for the performance gains as they are mostly acquired through the video acceleration. That's 80% of Microsoft's 80% market share that won't benefit.
Those that do use IE9 will still be riddled with all the security issues of the past.
I couldn't tell right away what was wrong with the picture of that browser until I noticed where the tabs were located. Don't think I'd take that approach. Firefox and Chrome both put the tabs on their own row.
Just an fyi, only today I received updates to OOo 3.2.1.
That is utterly untrue.
And you have no knowledge of the circumstances of his incident.
Move on man, you are trolling. The fanboy reference in this case proves my point.
Citation please.
Because you imagine it it doesn't make it so.
Well stop searching for those term then.
An engineering project that can't be sold is just a project.
I and a tremendous number of other people would disagree with all of that.
You can, but I doubt anyone else would judge that as a worthy measure.
You only have to contribute back if you use someone's code, modify it, and distribute it.
If you don't wish to then don't use it.
Gosh, that seems to have blown your whole argument out of the water?
That would be untrue. Do we look at overall problems or just those involved in a Linux distro. Who would fall as worst in this category then?
I'm a regular Ubuntu user. I use it on 13 machines in my shop and personal life. Having it done and well integrated with easily obtainable extras makes my life much easier. From less powerful to my most powerful this product just seems to work. So, to that end I do thank Mark Shuttleworth for his efforts and I hope he realizes that he has made other's lives better.
Not everyone contributes back to society or to the world at large in equal measure. Canonical does some things that others don't and others do what Canonical doesn't. To use code contributions to the kernel and to Gnome as a measuring stick just doesn't seem right. Let's be smart and look at the overall effect this has on the world.
Here's to you guys.