Pertinent to the thread on this list recently, I thought some of you
might be interested in what the guy who (currently) bankrolls a lot of
the Ubuntu development has to say on the matter. In an open online chat
via The Register yesterday:-
Pertinent to the thread on this list recently, I thought some of you might be
interested in what the guy who (currently) bankrolls a lot of the Ubuntu
development has to say on the matter. In an open online chat via The Register
yesterday:-
That is certainly interesting, and I totally missed it on the reg.
FWIW, I don't doubt Mr Shuttleworth believes wholeheartedly in the
direction he's taking Ubuntu, and no question he has the right to do
so but.
On 04/07/12 10:19, Alan Pope wrote:
SNIP
Mark Shuttleworth:
Windows 8 is
On 04/07/12 11:03, Chris Liddell wrote:
This is where I can't follow his lead. To my way of thinking phone,
tablet, POS, PVR, desktop and probably others are totally separate use
cases which demand *very* different things from the user interfaces.
I agree! I don't think you'll see the same
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop
machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the
second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to
risk not being able to boot the other two. I thought Grubs os-prober
on the first drive would
On 04/07/12 11:16, Clive Woodfine wrote:
I have Ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 on the first hard drive of my desktop
machine. I thought I would try Fedora 17 so I installed it on the
second hard drive and had it boot from that drives MBR not wanting to
risk not being able to boot the other two. I
On 1 July 2012 22:19, Stephen Davies
stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.ukwrote:
As a professional software developer who has been writing programms
since the days of Card Decks, George 3 , SOFOR and paper tape, I find this
latest craze on desktops (Gnome 3, Unity Windows 8) rather
I was glad that there was available a nice looking modern Linux,
easy-to-use distro to come-to-the-rescue of non-techie users (fluffies)
like this. I could have installed my own distro-of-choice Debian Squeeze
on there and everything would also be fine... but then I'd have to fiddle
with
I had a problem where grub2 on Ubuntu woudln't find Centos installed on a
separate partition. It turned out that Centos used LVM for its disks, but I
hadn't used that on Ubuntu. As soon as I installed the LVM libraries on the
Ubuntu (apt-get install liblvm2app, as far as I can remember),
Interesting. Personally use Debian Wheezy (current testing). I have no
gripe with iceweasel's fonts, though I may be less piccy than others,
standard install, straight out of the repository. Log-in without password
is not hard with either GDM or KDM. And to be honest, password-less login
On 04/07/12 10:19, Alan Pope wrote:
( snip _
Mark Shuttleworth:
(snip ) We had to leave a lot of friends behind
Cutting away at your user-base ? How very wise that is .
Mark Shuttleworth:
It was tough to lead ( snip ) We had done very well just shipping the
best of FLOSS, but it clearly
On Wednesday 04 July 2012 18:14:08 Imran Chaudhry wrote:
Log-in without password I found a hassle with Debian.
I set this up regularly for my husband, my granddaughter and myself. I have
never had a problem. (kdm, kdm-trinity, gdm with LXDE. also Lubuntu, but I
don't remember whether it was
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