[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

Juan J. Martínez reidrac at usebox.net
Fri Dec 2 08:52:04 UTC 2011


On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 00:58 +0000, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> I certainly do not wish to partake in a flame war. People are
> naturally conservative. Take for example how long it took for Lubuntu
> to gain adoption. If you are unhappy with Unity, then try any of the
> other flavours of Ubuntu. I have to disclose an interest in Lubuntu as
> I've been with it and helping since 9.10. I echo the words about
> Unity, getting a new build is no mean feat!.
> 
I agree with you, although *personally* I don't like the way Canonical
is acting as the no-so-benevolent dictator. I liked it better when
Ubuntu was a truly community effort backened by Canonical because it
felt like Debian (I was a Debian user back then, 2004). Now seems that
Canonical keeps the "come and contribute" thing but at the same time
there's an anti-community attitude that I definitely don't like.

Regarding the bugs, I think Ubuntu had some really good releases, and
now we're "suffering" new software that obviously has new bugs :)

That's going to happen in any distro that tries to innovate adding new
stuff and the latest versions; at least in the desktop arena that's what
you get, and it's fine. The server world is completely different, and
Ubuntu it's doing as good as any other distro.

I know I can't tell Canonical what to do, I don't think OSS communities
work that way. OSS comminities DO stuff, so everybody is free to report
bugs, provide feedback, patches, etc; or just move to a different
desktop or distribution and contribute there.

My two cents.

Regards,

Juan





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