Food For Thought

[Bruno Benitez]

I have said it before, but I would like to rewrite it the clearest I can.

I think that the most relevant place Xubuntu can take its on large
deployements. I think that we provide an stable desktop from release to
release, no surprises and increasing stability. I think that we should
focus on those aspects, in keeping our desktops clean, while adding default
improvements (better desktop search, HUD, better filesharing between
machines, just for example) that would be of interest of administrators to
increase productivity.

While other desktops focus on gaining a larger public, integrating portable
and pseudo-desktop terminals (touchscreens monitors, tablets, netbooks and
notebooks), we should still focus on true desktop terminals, taking special
care on stability, security, conectivity and innovation.

I don't think we should stagger our growth by not embrazing new
technologies, instead we should look at them and try to determinate which
of the new technologies would gave Xubuntu a kickstart over other distros
based on xfce, or any other desktop. We should take the things we see are
excellent from the mainbuntu development, while taking care of stability
and continuity.

If we give administrators a distribution that they can trust on, that will
keep their users happy and would increase their productivity by not messing
their workflow, I think we could get a more extense users universe in our
future.


2013/5/31 Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com>

>  On 31/05/13 09:15, Jackson Doak wrote:
>
> that bug must have been a joke to start with, it's evolved, possibly for
> the worst.
>
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Elfy <ub.untu at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> On 31/05/13 01:55, Stephen Michael Kellat wrote:
>>
>>> I commend the article by John C. Dvorak at the following link to the
>>> team for consideration:
>>>
>>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2419744,00.asp
>>>
>>> Mr. Dvorak reacts in the article to the closing of Launchpad Bug #1
>>> today by Mark Shuttleworth with a "Fix Released" which was explained here:
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834
>>>
>>> I concur with Mr. Dvorak that while technical superiority is great the
>>> problem is marketing and sales.  I additionally agree that a shift back to
>>> a mainframe-dominated computing paradigm seems to be in the cards much as
>>> Mr. Dvorak and I discussed about five years ago.  Mr. Dvorak's remarks fall
>>> in line with comments by Software Freedom Conservacy President Bradley Kuhn
>>> here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1844
>>>
>>> As we begin the Saucy Salamander cycle, perhaps we need to consider what
>>> a world would look like with major deployments of Xubuntu in 100 to 1,000
>>> seat environments.  What would that look like?  How would we position that?
>>>  What is the value we bring in today's computing world with our
>>> technological distinctives?
>>>
>>> Again, these are just things to think about as we dig into ops this
>>> cycle.
>>>
>>> Stephen Michael Kellat
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>  Sorry - I thought it was a ridiculous bug in 2007 when I first saw it.
>>
>> Now it's been marked it's causing arguments about whether it should have
>> been or not - even more ridiculous.
>>
>> Elfy
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>
>
>  Not sure it was a joke - but I'm not sure taking seriously as a bug helps
> much - and people complaining about it is worse imho.
>
> Anyway - wasted enough time on this now.
>
> If there's a real reason behind this mail I'd prefer to see it as such and
> not mixed up with the bug reports.
>
>
> Elfy
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