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Tonight I will concentrate on answering your questions about Unity on Ask Ubuntu. Questions will be answered based on the number of votes they receive and ones that I can answer.
Unity developers will be advising me best on how to answer your questions and we can continue to develop the answers…
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The new UbuntuAsk looks awesome, and I can’t wait to install Maverick! I often go through the UbuntuAsk site looking for unanswered questions like I do on stack exchange, but the questions almost all have answers unless they are extremely complex or vague.
Along with 10.10 here comes askubuntu.com. We’ve had a great beta where many experienced people participated and we had a nice standard of high quality answers and low noise. We’re experiencing a flood of new users and questions, so feel free to help out.
Remember people love to vote on answers with screenshots and easy to use instructions. Go get em!
Yay! I’m looking forward to answering more questions.
(via gamerchick02)
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If this were the requirement for open source software. The only people who would use open source software would be rich, old, white, programmers. Ideas are not judged in a vacuum. The person giving the idea is judged long before the details of an idea can be considered.
The comments to Castrojo’s post have some great dialog on othering in the Ubuntu community.
I get a bunch of questions and mails from people who want to do great things. This is what I am recommending from now on:
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Think you’re an Ubuntu pro? Here’s are some unanswered questions sorted by vote.
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Did you know that stackoverflow.com offers free advertising to open source projects?
Every project can always use some more new blood. And if you don’t think that’s a good enough reason, as of this writing here is a list of 344,881 other reasons.
Ok I promise not to blog about StackExchange anymore, until tomorrow anyway.
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… about the fact that I have so many sources of information.
All these inboxes are getting crazy.
I’m trying to clean things up on Tumblr (never fear; if I’ve deleted you from my follows it’s because I’m pulling an RSS from your blog!!) and Google Reader (getting rid of things I don’t read,…
(Source: gamerchick02)
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“The only Linux distribution that even imagine of coming close to windows is Ubuntu. Shouldn’t all the other Linux distributions start supporting Ubuntu rather than competing with it?”
This is a common misconception about Free software. Just because two projects offer similar functions, does not mean they compete with each other. Ubuntu focuses on the Desktop. CentOS focuses on the server.
Both distros grow by the work of the other.
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Being actively developed, feature-rich, providing access to several useful Internet service and a pretty decent media library, Banshee has a pretty fair share of users, and it is definitely a powerful music player not be ignored.
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For some reason people always think that having seperate / and /home partitions is necessary to having a healthy Ubuntu system.
I don’t know why people keep recommending this but I am doing my best to spread the word that you don’t need to go through all that noise. If you don’t believe me you…
I have to disagree with Castrojo. I separate my home from root, and the benefits are awesome. I’ve had the same /home partition since I first installed Debian before Ubuntu existed. It’s been such a marvelous boon for my data integrity that I wish Ubuntu would do this by default for new users without even telling them about it. New users would do a reinstall of the latest Ubuntu and find all their files still there. I cannot tell you how many hundreds of times I’ve formatted a Windows computer to have a customer ask, “So where are my files?” Even when I explain over and over that we are deleting everything and starting over. People don’t really grasp what that means until they sit down at their computer and realize what’s missing. Over time users forget what wasn’t installed by default.
(Source: ubuntu.stackexchange.com)
