[ubuntu-in] If not Ubuntu then what

[Anish Mangal]

Hi

Staying on the topic of having complete control over h/w AND s/w for better
solutions, interested folks may have a look at
opencores<http://www.opencores.org/>.
It is an initiative to design open-source hardware. The community strength
is nowhere near what it is behind any open-source distro but its picking up,
though some good amount of work has been done.

In earlier days (and to a large extent, even today) hardware design used to
be exclusively proprietary due to astronomical capital costs involved, but
the trend has changed with the advent of 'fab-less' companies, who basically
design stuff and get it made by someone else. They are the ones who stand to
gain the most out of such an initiative. As a great example AMD, Qualcomm
and Broadcom are all fab-less (meaning no manufacturing capability)!

Regards,
Anish Mangal


On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan <
ashutoshrishi92 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, bkd.jdk <bkd.jdk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 12:33 PM, K Ramnarayan wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> This isn't exactly a poll but thought that it would be good to know what
> >> people would choose if they had to move away from Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> Before saying anything i want to put this on record. Ubuntu is one of
> the best
> >> distro's i have ever used. , its ease in installation, responsiveness to
> >> multitude of hardware, the incredibly large and varied repositories, the
> very
> >> decent derivatives (Mint, Ultimate etc) . The huge forum and support.
> >> Basically i like it very much
> >>
> >> Over the recent months there has been a lot of chatter about minor and
> maybe
> >> not so minor aspects.
> >>
> >> First there was the dropping and inclusion of different programmes (e.g.
> GIMP)
> >> not big things but when many small things add up they become to big.
> > (OT)
> > These changes may seem small, but they are really big ones. Especially
> > the 'window buttons on the left' one. I really don't understand it, they
> > shouldn't add such changes in an LTS release. If they would want to
> > experiment, they can experiment in Lucid+1.
> >> Then there is this
> >> Ubuntu is not a democracy, Mark Shuttleworth
> >>
> >> Sounds crazy saying it like that but to read what he had to say check
> out
> >>
> >> Mark Shuttleworth: "This is not a democracy"
> >> http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/ubuntu-is-not-democratic.html
> >>
> >> and some related discussions
> >>
> >>
> http://www.osnews.com/story/23039/Kicking_in_Open_Doors_Open_Source_Is_Not_a_Democracy
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> http://www.itworld.com/open-source/101641/open-source-not-
> >> democracy?source=smlynch
> >>
> > Well, Ubuntu has become very big and that's all because of it's
> > community. Not because of Canonical. There are people who spend nights
> > contributing to Ubuntu, just for the sake of the community and Canonical
> > is now completely ignoring them. In my opinion there should be some kind
> > of open poll before making big changes that would affect the whole
> > community, but no why will they do it, "Ubuntu is not a democracy" ya
> > know :)
> >
>
> Well thats what he meant. Kind off. The kernel team decides the kernel
> because they are the ones who work on it. No one else can vote for
> their decisions because they have the merit of packing the kernel. The
> design team contribute to design and no one outside their team decides
> upon the design because they spend nights contributing to it. That
> sounds like a professional way to manage things.
>
> On a personal note, I am completely OK with the buttons on the left.
> In fact I had them on the left even before Canonical decided to (my
> reason was because mac has it and mac > windows.. stupid reason though
> ). Plus, now I am used to it and sometimes feel weird using the
> buttons on the right in MS Windows (I have the opposite problem). What
> I reason to myself is that:
> 1) Canonical's design is new, it does not imitate mac (mac has the
> opposite order) nor does it imitate windows. That is bad if you look
> at it in terms of user migration from windows to ubuntu. But people
> migrate to mac too from their windows and adapt well to it. So ubuntu
> has something unique.
>
> 2) Mark Shuttleworth said that the next Ubuntu will have something
> good on the right hand side. Right now there is the extra options to
> move the windows from one workspace to the other and all that. But
> hopefully they will get something good. I want a zeitgeist activity
> journal integrated there. But lets hope for something better.
>
> --
> Ashutosh Rishi
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>
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