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I was the leader of the LoCo Team[1] for my state in Brazil, helped translate Ubuntu to Brazilian Portuguese, gave talks around the country to help promote it,
by jamesponddotco 6y ago
I was the leader of the LoCo Team[1] for my state in Brazil, helped translate Ubuntu to Brazilian Portuguese, gave talks around the country to help promote it, handled installation, and support for Ubuntu in public universities, and schools, distributed install CDs, and merchandise in install parties, and events, and had the biggest blog about Ubuntu in Brazil at the time, Ubuntu-BR-SC.
Canonical, and the Ubuntu Council recognize a few contributors, and grant them the "status" of Ubuntu Member[2] as a sign of recognition of significant, and sustained contribution to Ubuntu or the Ubuntu community.
The membership gives you a few perks, like a certificate signed by Mark Shuttleworth, an @ubuntu.com email address, and a few other stuff[3], but these perks are nothing when compared to the experiences I had along the way. I got to test Ubuntu Touch, participate in a closed beta for Steam for Linux, have a face-to-face chat with Richard Stallman, talk with Mark Shuttleworth, and meet a huge number of people so much smarter than me at a young age, which helped shape who I am as an adult.
I have been calling Ubuntu my favourite operating system since 2008, and I am what I am today because of the journey I went through with it, but as of last week, I have replaced it with openSUSE Tumbleweed on my desktop, and will probably do the same with my servers. I no longer contribute in a serious way, and the decisions Canonical is taking really rub me the wrong way.
Hopefully, I will find a new home in the openSUSE community, and a new journey will start.
[1] https://loco.ubuntu.com/about-loco/ https://loco.ubuntu.com/about-loco/
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership
[3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership#The_Perks https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership#The_Perks
- andreicek 6y agoI agree with you completely. I'm looking to switch away from Ubuntu for both my personal and work servers. Do you recommend openSUSE for servers as well?
- jamesponddotco 6y agoToo soon to say I recommend it, as I started using it last week, but I like it so far. Fast, stable, and bleeding-edge, three words I did not think could be used together. If you are using Tumbleweed — which I am —, it is like using a more stable, friendly, and tested version of Arch Linux. Leap is similar to an LTS version of Ubuntu, with slightly newer packages sometimes. I will probably go with Tumbleweed for my servers as well. While that is not recommended by most people, I run so many tests before updating production servers, that this should be okay — plus, I update servers in batches, with my servers coming before customer servers, so I should be able to catch problems there. Still need testing before this becomes reality, though, might stay with Leap for servers in the end. One thing I liked a lot is openSUSE MicroOS, which is so much easier to install on bare-metal than the Ubuntu equivalent, Ubuntu Core — perfect for bastion servers, VPNs, or LXD host servers, since the root file system is read-only. I did replace BTFRS with XFS, though, as for my use case, BTFRS provided no benefit, and performance took a big hit. You will need to run your benchmarks to see if it fits your use case, but the options are EXT4, XFS, or BTFRS (the default). Overall, I am enjoying the experience, and the community is quite nice as well. Heck, I am even giving KDE a try, and giving i3wm a break.
- andreicek 6y agoThank you for taking the time to write out a detailed response.