Ubuntu is now worried about profits

[Manish Sinha]

On 4/25/2010 8:44 PM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
> Heh. The code is out there...there is stormos and nexenta so what Oracle
> does may not necessarily be the last nail on the coffin except for the
> sun cc build.
>
>    

Just a code doesn't help. The larger the community, more is the testing 
and more bugs are brought into light. Fixing more bugs means better OS.
Anyway you seem to think that just the code availability suffices.


> What do you expect if you are mad enough to mandate Fedora? Of course,
> it is not you who get to suffer...it's your underlings who have to sort
> that out. PHBs are perpetually drunk.
>
>    

If you find Fedora better then you are free to move to it. I just wanted 
to say that adding more config options makes the installer complex.
Remember every person who uses a computer is not a techie.

> Oh, right, flexible. Let's take just one example, or maybe the only
> example since I never got round to taking a look at what else d-i had to
> offer (and no ubuntu-installer does not come close and is not suitable
> for mass rollouts...it is as you pointed out, a simple installer for the
> single desktop), partitioning, lvm and raid. You cannot use preseed and
> make recipes for both raid and lvm nor can you have exact partitioning.
> Guess why stuff like fai are around. Give me Debian, thank you very much.
>    



Let's get straight to the point.
A non-techie user wants to install Linux. He gets a CD from his friend 
and starts installing. If he has to answer gazillions of questions only 
to install the distro, isn't the entry to linux pretty tough?
The installer should be pretty minimal, that's what ubiquity is. I just 
want to get an installer system over which I will do further.

Accept, this - One size doesn't suit everyone.

Okay, probably Ubuntu sucks for your use.

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Manish Sinha