On December 11, 2013, Michael Torrie wrote: > This is further evidenced by Ubuntu dropping all branding references to
> Linux. They want Ubuntu to be Ubuntu, not Ubuntu Linux. Then they should write their own kernel and boot loaders (or at least their own grub modules), and compile the gnu utilities & libraries for their own kernel. Don't claim your work isn't Linux when you still use the Linux kernel, still use Linux grub, and still use glibc and the other gnu utilities all compiled for the Linux kernel. That's like me taking the source code to an old style MUD (remember those, folks?) based on, let's say the TMI mud library, changing everywhere so that TMI is never mentioned, and then running the mud. It's really just carefully concealed theft if you ask me. And to think I used to recommend Ubuntu to newbie users. If Canonical is going to start this, then I'm done recommending them. I'll start telling newbies to use Fedora Core or something. Maybe Mint. I'd have to play around a bit with Mint before I could really recommend it. But I can recommend FC from (way) old experience. It may not be as easy as Ubuntu was supposed to be (and it never did seem quite that easy to me, but I could be biased), but it's far easier than Gentoo and is a good launch point until I can confirm how well Mint works. --- Dan On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:54 AM, Michael Torrie <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/11/2013 04:23 PM, Olli Ries wrote: > > Mir does have nothing to do with Unity > > It does in the sense that Unity is going to require Mir in the future > and will (in theory) do away with X11 entirely. Of course the rest of > the Linux world would also like to move beyond X11, but everyone else > has decided for a number of reasons including technical to support > Wayland as the de facto Linux GUI server. > > So Unity does represent Canonical going its own non-compatible rather > than evolve along with the Linux community from which it was created. > This is further evidenced by Ubuntu dropping all branding references to > Linux. They want Ubuntu to be Ubuntu, not Ubuntu Linux. > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
