slgeorge

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by slgeorge 10y ago
> Knowledge workers aren't cogs, they're part of a team. You shouldn't expect that you can easily find replacement people with exactly the same skillset and propensity as someone else to make up the gap that an absence mak
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by slgeorge 10y ago
> What happened to hiring people who are not like us, because that's where the challenge lies and life is better when we are forced to evaluate our own misgivings? I think for many situations that comes down to three things: a. Peop
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Having read through it, I think he's trying to hire for fit with himself and his team. An inbuilt assumption is that the candidates are capable of doing the role - he mentions going through their CV, or perhaps he's already covere
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by slgeorge 10y ago
Snap packages with isolation aren't a 'silver bullet' but they are a step forward. It continues a trajectory of trying to secure desktop endusers with steps like AppArmor and kernel hardening that were don't for other LT
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by slgeorge 10y ago
That description of how Ubuntu deals with repositories is factually wrong. There are two repositories (in essense), Main and Universe [0]. For packages in Main a core developer (could be Canonical or someone else) has to be assigned to look
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by slgeorge 10y ago
This title is misleading. The article is a post on a bulletin board by someone stating two facts: a. Canonical "claims" they provide Long Term Support b. That support is for the "Main" repository only. Neither of these p
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by slgeorge 11y ago
They mean they're shipping the 14.04.01 LTS, the point release that comes out three months after the main release. Dell actually ship a custom enabled Ubuntu version - it's one of the LTS releases that's stable with any custo
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by slgeorge 11y ago
I think this comes down to how different people are motivated. Others in the thread have said 'a race is a goal' so it motivates them. But, you also see lots of runners with other motivations. For example, I see a lot of people on
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by slgeorge 11y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but I have some sources. The best consistent source I've found is Alex Hutchinson. He reports on scientific studies and tries to sift the wheat from the chaff. Quick search found this one on stre
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by slgeorge 11y ago
Yeah, climbers are quite like FOSS advocates, having endless arguments about minute 'differences' as far as the outside world is concerned! I'd highly recommend you do some alpine mountaineering and then see if your opinions
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> Are the Sherpas better off with the climbers? Perhaps. I just spent three months in Nepal hiking with ethnic Sherpas guides [0]. Within their communities the high-mountain Sherpa guides are looked up to as brave and strong - they repre
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> Well, the first time a hacker vehicle exploit results in one or more deaths of the driver and/or passengers of one of these Internet-connected vehicles It's the infotainment system according to one of the original blog posts.
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by slgeorge 11y ago
A good way to understand RH is to think of the savings they provide to a CTO. With a RH stack you can have storage, core OS, Java and virtualization - so they provide all of the key pieces of architecture an enterprise needs. Fundamentally,
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by slgeorge 11y ago
It's really a matter of priorities. When RH started 'server' was the focus and became the revenue generator. Workstation was the area they expanded into, in my opinion. When Ubuntu started the focus was on the 'desktop&#
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a. Yes, Canonical will provide you with a patch to an issue in Ubuntu the same as RedHat. b. Yes Canonical has follow the sun support for the "Main" section of Ubuntu. This includes the OS, the virt layer and the hardware along wi
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by slgeorge 11y ago
The OSS trade-off is market penetration vs revenue from a business perspective. It's successful if the free marketing and adoption is worth the loss of revenue. Both RedHat and SUSE's competition in the 90's were proprietary
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by slgeorge 11y ago
It doesn't have anything to do with the API. Kik (the company) registered the name and have rights to the name. Technically, Kik (the company) registered their trademark in the class "Computer Software" [0]. That means that n
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by slgeorge 11y ago
A Sales Engineer is fundamentally responsible for the technical aspects of a sale, in my opinion. That means listening closely to customers so you understand their problems, presenting how your companies technologies fit the general case an
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by slgeorge 11y ago
You've made two claims: a. "[I] care less about market share because market share is not, and never has been, what sustains the FOSS ecosystem" b. "Sometimes market share does sustain the FOSS ecosystem indirectly"
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> We FOSS devs rightly care less about market share because market share [does not] sustain the FOSS ecosystem Here's a direct response. Telling someone they don't 'understand' something is abrasive and mean-spirited.
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by slgeorge 11y ago
Well the point is to have alternatives. The platform itself is a full Linux so of the three it's closes to being a "replacement" for the Nokia N900. Since no-one's developing the N900, it's actually the best chance
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by slgeorge 11y ago
To use the appstore you need an Ubuntu One account. Basically, so it can customise the experience (ie reload your apps onto a new phone) to you and lets you buy commercial applications. Most end-users want convenience and customised exper
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by slgeorge 11y ago
I'm sorry you're so upset and had such a poor experience. To my knowledge the online sales objective was for Ubuntu Phones to be for developers and technical enthusiasts. As you said it's not full mature. Unfortunately, it so
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by slgeorge 11y ago
You're on OS X so probably don't care but ... a. Hardware drivers are not independent of distro Technically most drivers will land-up in the main-line kernel at some point. But, for testing whether a "whole" laptop wor
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> It's all just bullshit, and I don't have time to deal with bullshit like that It's bullshit to you , but it doesn't make Linux bullshit - others prioritise different aspects. You care about HiDPI - perhaps you ar
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> [... ]but there are vast cultural and technological improvements that often get diminished, and I think the comment above is a pushback against that, which does advance their argument. The comment at top of thread was that relative t
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> I don't know how to describe mobile. I believe it will be the tail of the so called computer era, not a next phase. I agree with you, mobile is more of an extrapolation, or an evolution than an entirely new phase or era. We'r
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On the Ubuntu side it really comes down to what you want from your operating system. If your desktop is primarily for development, and you want to be in control of your environment then it's viable. I say that as someone whose been usi
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by slgeorge 11y ago
Every business (and I'd argue project) needs to grow and change with how the world is developing. The Palm Pilot software was perfectly fine in 2004(?) but wouldn't stand a chance serving users-needs in 2016. The Linux distro&#x27
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by slgeorge 11y ago
> This is fairly stupid, considering that Ubuntu's marketshare was pretty much 100% PC, 0% tablets Ubuntu is both a commercial AND a community project. The goal has always been to take the power of Linux, make it usable for 'ge

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