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Halloween came and went last week, and we have yet to hear from anyone who wore a Tux costume. Sigh -- looks like we'll have to wait another year. Generating much more excitement than the spooky Linuxy possibilities, it seems, was the grand landing of Intrepid Ibex, which caused a veritable flurry of reviews, comparisons and general Ubuntu-related discussion. Indeed, more than 2,000 Diggs had been given to news of the big release by Friday, with other lengthy discussions devoted to reviews and Mark Shuttleworth's comments about its styling and design.
Mr Yagu states that ".. the free software community thinks everyone will just use free software, but human nature defies that logic; people are willing -- even want -- to pay for products, yagu concluded." and concludes that RMS is misguided. Well it seems that Mr Yagu is also somewhat misguided, in that he does not even understand the proper meaning of free software as defined by RMS and the Free Software Foundation. Time and time again RMS repeats that the free refers to the copyright of the code, e.g. the freedom to copy and alter the code, and pass it on to others. It does not mean free as in purchase price. Stallman does not object to people paying for software, but objects to paying for software that someone else then dictates what you can do with it afterwards.
I have no objection to paying for software in principle, I have as yet been unable to find any worth buying. Its all either crippled, bug ridden, or non ergonomic, or usually a combination of all three.
I have no objection to paying for software in principle, I have as yet been unable to find any worth buying. Its all either crippled, bug ridden, or non ergonomic, or usually a combination of all three.
I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 over the weekend. As usual, it did not work.
My computer runs a Via chipset, not good for 3d, but the computer has been one of the few mainstream Ubuntu loaded boxes from Walmart, so it should have been tested.
He did not manage to run the desktop for a graphics issue, and after some restarting, fooling around, I managed to start gdm manually, and taking it from there get it up and running again. Ubuntu takes, with the current approach, responsibility for a very wide range of software, that is not under its control.
The point is, Ubuntu should fully support a standard external system for installing software (cfr linspire) and make sure its own house is in order.
As 99 % of the computer and server tasks can be done by a limited standard set, those should be part of the core, and for the rest, keep them out.
Nor windows nor mac have such a grip on what you do with your computer as a Linux distribution: they provide you with the binaries themselves.
My computer runs a Via chipset, not good for 3d, but the computer has been one of the few mainstream Ubuntu loaded boxes from Walmart, so it should have been tested.
He did not manage to run the desktop for a graphics issue, and after some restarting, fooling around, I managed to start gdm manually, and taking it from there get it up and running again. Ubuntu takes, with the current approach, responsibility for a very wide range of software, that is not under its control.
The point is, Ubuntu should fully support a standard external system for installing software (cfr linspire) and make sure its own house is in order.
As 99 % of the computer and server tasks can be done by a limited standard set, those should be part of the core, and for the rest, keep them out.
Nor windows nor mac have such a grip on what you do with your computer as a Linux distribution: they provide you with the binaries themselves.
"we have yet to hear from anyone who wore a Tux costume. Sigh -- looks like we'll have to wait another year."
Not quite, one of my buddies did.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GUxsdB0sHjwwNQRAyujuAg
Not quite, one of my buddies did.
http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/GUxsdB0sHjwwNQRAyujuAg
