[ubuntu-in] If not Ubuntu then what

[Arvind Gupta]

Mangal
             Seems like great link nice post.
-arvind

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 20:45, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2002 at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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