Posts Tagged Ubuntu
On Mono Packaging
It’s almost nostalgic to be posting so often about Mono, but hopefully the Gentle Reader finds this post worth his valuable time. The Claim One of the common claims of the Mono proponent is that distribution packagers are splitting Mono into ECMA and non-ECMA packages. Debian and/or Ubuntu are commonly held up as examples in [...]
Matt Asay Leaves Canonical
Wow – with less than a year at it, Matt Asay announced he is leaving Canonical. No biggie, actually Mr. Asay’s departure isn’t really a big deal for Canonical or Ubuntu. For one thing, Mr. Asay was a poor choice for Canonical – assuming Canonical wanted to take a pro-Free Software position and not another sure to [...]
Shuttleworth: Defending Ubuntu
Posted by Jason in Free Software on September 15, 2010
Mark Shuttleworth has a very interesting blog posting, “Reflections on Ubuntu, Canonical, and the march to free software adoption” where he responds to the latest round of Ubuntu criticism. Free Software makes Ubuntu possible I’ll get straight to the main point: I appreciate the emphasis Mr. Shuttleworth makes on Free Software in his post, especially in [...]
A newbie tries to install Ubuntu
One of the message boards I lurk on is The Straight Dope, a very interesting community where I dare say the representative member is a bit above average in intelligence, curiosity, and social graces. So it is with some interest I read “Give me a hand installing Ubuntu“, where a newcomer who wants to try [...]
Ubuntu Separatists
Out of the whole amusing Ubuntu-only Stack Exchange mess, I found one comment that I especially enjoyed: I’m sad that the Ubuntu separatists have chosen this. However, I see it as there own loss. They do not have the benefit of the experience of non-Ubuntu users. I myself have helped Ubuntu-ers in the past to do very [...]
OMG! Ignorant!
Posted by Jason in Linux, Open Source on August 9, 2010
So, Benjamin Humphrey of OMG! Ubuntu! and Ubuntu Manual team lead has a blog post he considers so brilliant he made sure it went out twice: “Dude, you’re a 35 year old with a neck beard“. Mr. Humphrey’s particular post is so chock-full of ignorance that it deserves a proper dissection. Let’s begin! [Edited to [...]
Ubuntu Making Moves
Posted by Jason in Free Software on June 14, 2010
Perhaps it’s just the sources I have, but it seems even the smallest decision from Ubuntu swamps Linux news. Most of the time this is a wash, but sometimes there is an interesting bit or two. Often it’s something I don’t agree with — which if I then comment about I am taken to task by [...]
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