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They didn't invest much into Upstart at all, and quickly announced a switch after Debian adopted systemd. They still maintain Mir, as a Wayland display server.
by NewJazz 3y ago
They didn't invest much into Upstart at all, and quickly announced a switch after Debian adopted systemd.
They still maintain Mir, as a Wayland display server.
Unity was one of the most popular desktop environments and brought Ubuntu users a lot of value over the years. It even influenced the design of GNOME 3.
- freedomben 3y agoYeah I'm generally critical of Canonical for these moves, but Upstart is one I actually think was good and well done, as was their decision to move to systemd. Upstart was more pre-systemd anyway. IIRC Red Hat also used Upstart for a major release as well before moving all the way to systemd.
- extraduder_ire 3y agoI didn't understand much of the unity hate, especially compared to things like gnome 3. Really wish I could have HUD, combined titlebar/top panel, and typo-resilient search back. The latter two are possible with gnome extensions but don't work quite as well.
- sevagh 3y agoIt's not so much hating what they do but the manner in which they do it. CLAs and not contributing upstream from the get-go means Canonical's special stuff cannot go further than Canonical.
- NewJazz 3y agoCommunity forks of e.g. Unity have cropped up that ditch the CLA. Open source is open source, after all. That said I do agree that the CLA has doomed most of their projects from gaining considerable adoption in the wider Linux community. At least while Canonical is still running the project.