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- daftman, on 02/22/2008, -0/+51You don't have to be a developer to help
Just run the software, and if it crash, email them about it. Take screenshot, crash description, etc. - Kingoftherings, on 02/22/2008, -2/+45I'd gladly do it if I knew how to fix bugs.
- wolfger, on 02/22/2008, -5/+47Wow. 75 diggs, and not one worthwhile comment. Including, apparently, this one.
- daftman, on 02/22/2008, -0/+42There are many ways people can help without actually being a developer.
1. email report any crashes, inconsistencies to the developers including screenshots, description of what happened. Launchpad is a good tool for this.
2. Contribute to documentation. Alot of FOSS are not properly documented. Just open up any kde or gnome app and you will find that the help section is either empty or very poorly written.
3. Inform other user about the correct pros and cons. There are alot of misinformation about the software functionalites and that hurts the adoption.
4. Contribute artwork. I hear alot of people complain about how things look ugly in FOSS, but not many has the balls to send in their own concept art and ideas.
5. Translate the software to your own language.
Remember that this doesn't have to be Ubuntu exclusive. However since Linux distros share most of the app codebase, helping one would be helping the others. - nytel, on 02/22/2008, -1/+23I made the jump to Ubuntu as of last night and so far I have all my applications in Linux!
I'm really stoked to learn something new! - nlke182, on 02/22/2008, -8/+26Why should I be doing work on a product I just purchased. Oh wait, nevermind.
- daftman, on 02/22/2008, -1/+19Complaints are pointless and waste of time. Unless you can actually construct a proper complaint with coherent reasons, explanation and recommendation, shouting "It is ***** *****!!!" is like farting in the wind, everyone can hear it but nobody likes it.
You might do a better job complain to the hardware vendor or stop buying their products. It sends a louder and clearer message to them to support in developing better driver. - mikewhite314, on 02/22/2008, -5/+22what bugs?
- sk8bomb1067, on 02/22/2008, -0/+17I made the switch about a month ago as well. Everything worked great, all I needed to get was a video card driver. Vista just feels so damn slow and boring in comparison now.
- d0onut, on 02/22/2008, -6/+21Sorry, I'm not into pokemon.
- LordBoreal51, on 02/22/2008, -0/+13I think this is a great thing for the OS since most of the problems I've had were minor bugs that ended up interfering with my use of the OS in general.
I'm looking forward to do my part to develop this up and coming Linux flavor. - thadiusdean, on 02/22/2008, -2/+15The Garbage Man Can!
- paintpro, on 02/22/2008, -9/+22can't someone else do it
- lovekudu, on 02/22/2008, -0/+13I'd visit help.ubuntu.com, get a wiki account, and start making sure that tutorials are as simple as possible.
Currently a lot of older tutorials use the command line for everything, when the same task could be accomplished using graphical tools that are available in Ubuntu and preferable to most new Linux users.
(and before you ask, yes I'm already doing that - see lovekudu@launchpad.net) - phoenixp3k, on 02/22/2008, -1/+13Well automatic bug reporting seems like a good thing to do.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/5-A-Day#Log - lovekudu, on 02/22/2008, -0/+12Every OS has a command to delete files recursively, including deltree in Windows and rm in OS X.
- chinpo, on 02/22/2008, -2/+13
Who can take your trash out?
Stomp it down for you?
Shake the plastic bag and do the twisty thingy too?
THE GARBAGE MAN!!
Oh the Garbage Man can
The Garbage Man can and he does it with a smile and never judges you.
Who can take this diaper?
I don't mind at all
Who can clean me up before the big policeman's ball?
THE GARBAGE MAN
yes the garbage man can
The sanitation folks are jolly friendly blokes courteous
and easy going they mop up when your over flowing and tell you when
your arse is showing
Who can.....
Who can.....
Who can.....
Who can.....
THE GARBAGE MAN CAN!!
'Cause he's Homer Simpson Man
HE CLEANS THE WORRRRLD FOOOORRR YOOOUUU - pHr34kY, on 02/22/2008, -0/+11I've taken the initiative of running the Alpha build on one of my machines and submitting bugs on Launchpad as I come across them. I haven't actually fixed any myself, but letting them know they're there helps the dev team a lot :)
- Giga, on 02/22/2008, -0/+10Sure. I'll just assume the crash was caused by a race condition on line 56 of message.cpp. I've made a code change that should fix the problem.
/end sarcasm
The whole point of the 5-A-Day is to get bugs fixed, not just state that ***** doesn't work. How the hell are we supposed to know why it doesn't work on your machine without explaining what crashes and when (and other useful information). - fredmv, on 02/22/2008, -3/+13Just use Kubuntu.
- Stonekeeper, on 02/22/2008, -0/+10Command line = speed. I had to change the IP address of an XP machine recently and seemingly took forever. I'm used to getting stuff done NOW!
- socomoddjob, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9Id like to help but i dont know to fix bugs...i rarely run into them anyway in ubuntu.
- mvent2, on 02/22/2008, -1/+9Command line stuff? Where?
- kazamx, on 02/22/2008, -1/+8I am fairly new to Linux and Ubuntu, but wanted to do my bit and give something back. I found a great way to help is on the official forums. One forums is for people who are VERY new to Linux. On this forum there are many really really noob questions. I don't know a lot, but I can help them change their desktop, screen res, install aps.
I figure if I am doing that, then the people with more skills can help the people with bigger problems - Gagle, on 02/22/2008, -8/+15Exactly ! Not every Linux user is a friggin software developer.
- zmjone2992, on 02/22/2008, -3/+10I'd like to personally thank you for making ***** up.
- rotten777, on 02/22/2008, -1/+7Why would someone improve something they use 8 hours a day? Gee I don't know. I can't possibly see the benefit from them improving it. Other than the 10,400 hours a year they spend on their computer (8 hours a day, 5 days a week, 52 weeks).
- kentifer, on 02/22/2008, -2/+7Communism Works!
- TwenT4, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5Can someone make KDE4 unsuck?
- tHePeOPle, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5Don't sell yourself short man. You're doin' great.
- mvent2, on 02/22/2008, -0/+5If they get rid of the terminal then what will we open with the GUI to use the command line if we want to?
- Kalimotxo, on 02/22/2008, -0/+55 a day is pretty ambitious. 1 a day per developer would be a better and more realistic start. I personally, really like the bounty system. I think that can be improved. Let users donate to bounties, and watch the bugs dissappear. That way, the most annoying bugs would have larger bounties and it would create more incentive for developers to pay attention to them.
- muzzle, on 02/22/2008, -1/+6Works fine on my acer, so "***** of my synaptics touchpad driver" means nothing to me
- Giga, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4...except that steam and flash generally work fine. The games you get through steam may be a different story on the other hand.
- muzzle, on 02/22/2008, -1/+5I've used, KDE, gnome, xfce, enlightenment, and blackbox, but I personally find gnome to be the best for me. xfce works well on my eee tho.
- Dylson, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4I loved it.
- Giga, on 02/22/2008, -2/+6I'm a software engineer, and 5 bug fixes a day is quite a tall order.
- rdoger6424, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4Common knowledge... to microsoft?
- Kalimotxo, on 02/22/2008, -0/+41. Make drivers. There are drivers, and a lot of them are quite good. Video drivers, could benefit from being opened up, which looks to be on the horizon in the future.
2. Replace the terminal with a decent gui? I think you mean "add more gui's to alleviate using the terminal for most general users" (I hope).
3. Get rid of the need for extravagant code? Now that makes no sense. That sounds like an armchair quarterback comment aimed at programmers. - angers, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4For those of you that don't know much about software development, perhaps you can tell 5 people a day about Ubuntu. That way you'll also be making a difference.
- Rha7dotCom, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4That's the spirit. In a very personal way, thanks.
- Stonekeeper, on 02/22/2008, -0/+4to be fair, synaptics touchpad is on the vast majority of laptops.
- andycr512, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3"replace terminal with a descent GUI"
I don't know, I think I would prefer a mortal kombat GUI. - wolfger, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3@Kingoftherings: You don't need to know how to fix bugs to participate. There's a mountain of work to be done, and much of it requires no more skill than knowing how to use a web browser:
1) Pick a bug at random, do searches to find similar bugs, if any are duplicates, mark them as such. This is a *huge* help.
2) Search through old "incomplete" bugs in which a developer or triager has asked a question, and no response has been given for over 30 days. Paste in the canned response indicating the bug is dead for lack of info and close as "invalid".
3) As a result of (2), people may actually respond with the needed info, and you will need to re-open the bug (if they didn't do it themselves).
No skill required, and a huge help to the bug squad. - Giga, on 02/22/2008, -3/+6Shut up already. They shouldn't make KDE default just because of your personal preference. Gnome fits the requirements just fine.
(This comment coming from a KDE user) - finanigan, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3You mean 2,080 hours? Your number comes out to 40 hours a day! But this is digg, so that's probably a good estimate. :'p
- baalzebub, on 02/22/2008, -1/+4if you make an operating system idiot proof evolution will just produce a more idiotic idiot and thus nullify any effort...
- rdoger6424, on 02/22/2008, -0/+3What's your problem and on what version is this not working?
- Jak08, on 02/22/2008, -2/+5Your sick, I think you should see a doctor
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