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UbuntuOne, integrated on nearly every menu of the desktop, ... might help Canonical, Ltd. make a few bucks? If you don't like it, fork it, right? Isn't that t
by jluxenberg 16y ago
UbuntuOne, integrated on nearly every menu of the desktop, ... might help Canonical, Ltd. make a few bucks?
If you don't like it, fork it, right? Isn't that the main strength of F/OSS? For example, CentOS is a white-label fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The same argument could be applied to Canonical's inclusion of Adobe Air and Flash in Ubuntu.
Canonical is targeting a market previous unserved by other Linux distros. To get to these users, the experience needs to be polished and complete. There's a reason that, for example, Slackware, isn't going to be installed by your grandmother...it's too difficult.
- emilsedgh 16y agoYou cant fork a Company! But, really, why people bring the 'Ubuntu is polished' argument all the time? Noone is against it being user friendly. They can be user friendly AND upstream friendly. And their upstream happens to be the free software community. And they claim they respect it. And they dont.
- ebtalley 16y agoUbuntu is polished to a point, kind of like a ball of mud can be polished to a high sheen. There "are" issues that continue to plague Linux in the Desktop department. To say that Ubuntu is polished enough for grandma to really interact with the machine without root is silly IMHO.
- hvs 16y agoLinux Mint polishes that ball of mud even more, but your point still stands, I think.
- BCM43 16y ago> There "are" issues that continue to plague Linux in the Desktop department. I'd be interested in knowing what you are referring to here.
- ebtalley 16y agoThings like not being able to delete files out of your trash because the permissions are set such that you need to sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/