October 2010
4 posts
jorge's stompbox: Cutting through the noise about... →
castrojo:
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…
... and we're live
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.
moreamysramblings:
castrojo:
Along with 10.10 here comes askubuntu.com. We’ve had a great beta where many experienced people...
My new proposal for improving governance.
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.
castrojo:
I get a bunch of...
September 2010
9 posts
Test your might!
castrojo:
Think you’re an Ubuntu pro? Here’s are some unanswered questions sorted by vote.
How do we get more developers?
castrojo:
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.
(More) Amy's Ramblings: Frustration... →
moreamysramblings:
… 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,…
the2dblog:
“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...
Banshee 1.7.5 Review in Ubuntu Maverick Beta |... →
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.
jorge's stompbox: No need to complicate your... →
castrojo:
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...
Above the Law - Russia Uses Microsoft to Suppress... →
Microsoft is helping the Russian government suppress descent. Free software anyone?
Whither with Ubuntu?
Canonical Ltd. (Ubuntu’s company of origin) has yet to turn a single dollar in profit. Mark Shuttleworth, the founder and main funder of Canonical and Ubuntu, stated in 2008 that the company would wait for the business to become profitable for another 3 to 5 years. We are currently approaching 2 years. If funding for Ubuntu is pulled would Ubuntu continue? Most likely. The biggest changes...
Why Better Ubuntu?
Ubuntu is the world’s third most popular operating system. Thanks to Canonical and Mark Shuttleworth, user interface designers are finally having a major impact on the way GNU/Linux based computers interact with the user.
However, the open source community still hasn’t gotten behind end user testing with new users. Usability testing is the key to making a great interface better. While...