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- epohs, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8It's an ARTICLE IN THE LINUX SECTION OF A TECHNOLOGY FOCUSED WEBSITE, GO OUT AND GET SOME FRESH AIR!!!
- atdigg, on 10/10/2007, -4/+10Then why do you post here?
- schestowitz, on 10/10/2007, -5/+11There are no copies of the slides (if any existed), but here are photos of Asay's:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=786&num=1 - weizbox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4'Hardware and software certification is a big part of those plans, and Shuttleworth also wants the Ubuntu project to work closely with third-party developers and other vendors to help align them with the Ubuntu release cycle.'
This defiantly is a good thing for Ubuntu.... but not for Linux as a whole unfortunately :(
I really hope some of the larger projects like KDE don't follow this release-cycle. They are have they're own method of getting thigns done, and it's been working out pretty well so far. In a way they've been using they're own time-released cycle anyways if you look at how often they put out new versions.... but I guess that's not what Shuttleworth wants.
As well, has anyone bothered to check out what they're charing for someone to get they're hardware or software 'certified' for Ubuntu? They're starting to go in a path away from the users... and towards the money. You give them money to put a stamp of approval on your software and add it to they're Add/Remove Program gui... which still to this day is beyond me why they both to have that along with synaptic(never was a fan of having two different places where I can install/uninstall programs/packages... and where some packages are listed in one, but when you try to remove it, it just tells you to use the other one... wtf?). After all the hype, who wouldn't want to use Ubuntu as an advertising medium? ;)
For $690 you can get:
* Ubuntu Partner Points and immediate access to Ubuntu Affiliate status
* Ubuntu Certified logo rights
* Preferred listing in Ubuntu Software Repository
* Compatability and instalability assured for 2 Ubuntu releases ( if the package uses the Ubuntu installer
* Access to paid engineering services to ensure compatability for future Ubuntu releases, and free recertification
* Press release announcing certification
Ubuntu is a great distro, and it's defiantly easy to install, and come with a lot of apps(even tho the gtk installer doesn't even give you the option to pick what you want or what you don't want)... but I just don't want to see it turn into a product that takes preference in paying party over good software that people want to use but may be aren't willing to shell out the money for the Ubuntu seal of approval. Ultimately something like that could leave a sour taste in peoples mouths about Linux.. especially when Ubuntu is at the forefront of the popular Linux distributions at the moment, and as I've already seen multiple times in comments on digg, associating the two as a single entity. - starsky51, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I understand your concern but I really don't think they're 'chasing the money' (sorry to misquote you). $690 would barely cover their admin fees over the one year compatibility maintainence.
This is a good chance for an established Linux company to reach out to hardware producers, for the good of the whole of Linux.
Don't get me wrong, Shuttleworth is a businessman, and a good one at that, but i don't think he's prepared to cash in his good reputation for a few hundred dollars a pop. Not just yet, anyway :) - weizbox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well, they are a business and he is spending a lot of money on this development.. so some of it has to be about getting money to pay for all of this.
Even if it wasn't about money, they are taking preference over the projects that get certified with them(which just so happens does cost money)... and that just seems a little fishy to me. Instead of adapting the distro to handle all open source code just as many other distros do, they are setting or a tier system for preferred listing of software. Instead of even using what is more popular or better, they take preference towards certification(money). I'd much rather see it be user driver and perhaps they do what they can do implement popular programs... but to each his own.
The hardware end I don't mind as much since Im sure if the kernel devs get some open source drivers for some more hardware they'll be throwing it in there... so thats defiantly one of the plus sides of the whole thing. - weizbox, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1A fan blowing air from outside via window counts.. right? ;)
- thelastknowngod, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1i think he did an Impress presentation, not a Keynote. he would be using a mac if he did a Keynote. ;-)
- championchap, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He cares not about Mark Shuttleworth.. but he cares that digg sees his username.
Any publicity is good publicity.
Trouble is, now I'll never see him again. So it kinda backfired on him. - daftman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Please, get a pencil and sodomize yourself.
Apologies to TPB - phntm, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1huhu huhu beavis, topic sais ars!
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1I think the important difference is that he actually looked good in it. You don't.
- LowRentDiggs, on 10/10/2007, -4/+3I had a pair of those pants in 1984 but they had about 20 more zippers in various places.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1this is for all the linux fanboy's out there... here's your steve jobs like keynote for ya.
- ch0ng, on 10/10/2007, -8/+6Great article by Ryan Paul of ArsTechnica.com.
- socomoddjob, on 10/10/2007, -9/+3Shuttleworth is the overlord.
- somegeologist, on 10/10/2007, -7/+1Wow, was this like the BeOS reunion conference, six guys standing around talking about kernels and stuff.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -10/+1Hasn't this been covered ad nauseum already? How much more "news" do the Ubuntu zealots need?
It's an OS, GO OUT AND GET SOME FRESH AIR!!!
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