On 04/06/2011 06:04 PM, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
As some one who did order a few different versions it is a Sad though
but, allegedely true, i guess it has to come to an end some time and
hopefully people will find others ways of distributing CD's, and as
Canonical says technology has moved on :-)
Yes. This is also a pointer towards a larger goal of moving towards an
ecosystem. First, they move towards Unity instead of supporting Gnome,
then they refuse to contribute much to the "code", and now the Shipit
programme is deemed to have generated enough momentum to have created a
critical mass. How much interest would the local LUG's take to
popularise the distro?
Indeed, I broke off from the Ubuntu's quite useless update system and
shifted to Linux mint; however, the best option is still to move on to
the roots; i.e. Debian and I am downloading the rolling release.
Paid software in the software centre is a slow pointer towards
generation of ecosystem. Make the base OS free and let people pay for
the software.
though i don't think it will be easy for many internet users to
download even a few 100 megs - so i think we should have some more
reliable Ubuntu shippers making their presence felt.
It's hard to convince people to shift; till the time there is active
buzz created, it is hard to convert people. Most of them equate Windows
with "ease of use" because of default administrator priveleges and fact
that mainstream applications are focussed on the MS desktop.
and as for the suggestion canonical gives to Ubuntu LUG's, well thats
something we are doing any way
Now this is debatable and my real reason to post a reply. This is an
assumption that most of us take for granted. I have seen poor response
in engineering colleges churning out dead beat "coders" who are at best
as script kiddies. Bangalore, unfortunately, has turned into a huge
swamp for unfortunate army of idiots. Name anything worthwhile that has
come from India; any mainstream package or software that is being used
by thousands of common users like me.
the link to the article is here
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/05/canonical_kills_free_ubuntu_cd_program/
The article itself is below
Although attributed, please don't copy and paste.
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