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- wedderburn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+154you must be new here
- Virak, on 10/12/2007, -12/+129"what the ***** kind of name is ubnutu"
I don't know, but it's not nearly as cool a name as "Ubuntu" is. - wedderburn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44i was talking about the parent, generally its a 100+ digg down for criticizing apple and Ubuntu. :)
- thebigmatay, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26No, Ubuntu is one hell of an OS, not my favorite distro but probably the best for spreading the linux love. Now these posters just read like an advertisement, and a crappy one at that. If I want a poster of an OS that I use I don't really need to advertise it to myself, I want it to be aesthetically pleasing. And before everyone jumps on me because they're meant to spread the word, it just seems to me like the poster looks cluttered and somewhat hard to read and if I wasn't interested in linux this definitely wouldn't convince me to try it.
- unifragger, on 10/12/2007, -6/+30I love the state of linux today. It has a ways to go, but it is totally usable (and in a lot of ways surpasses) as an alternative to windows. As a Sr. Windows Admin at work, I would be proud to sport this poster in my office.
Posted whilst an upgrade from 6.10 -> 7.04 is in process in the background.
Long live the community! - flag564, on 10/12/2007, -9/+32I dont know. From the looks of the poster, it wont be reeling anyone in. There is no visual hook (way too bland and cluttered), and the message needs to be brought down to tag line length.
Most people dont see themselves as slaves when they use Windows, so the whole message of freedom is meaningless. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Why the hell is everyone burying the Ubuntu guy?
- davidsmero, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18I love how every comment from Jenda is buried. Haha
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16why is everyone burying you?
- caliform, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14We got one of these on the university too. It's great as it prompts people to ask what it's all about or check it out.
- misteral, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12I'm sory azimuth1, but that will happen on any OS. And it's not always the fault of the OS, it's likely an application. I have Ubuntu at home and WinXP at work. On Ubuntu I had an issue in January with Azurez consuming way too much memory and CPU. This was a quick patch. The only other random CPU spike I had was caused by a mistake I made that removed swap space. Once I fixed that everything ran smoothly. On my windows box, I'd say I've had one or two unexplained CPU spikes that were prolonged, just re-installing the app seemed to fix (don't remember what application)
- Limp_Trizkit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14Is there any way you could put up a higher resolution source for those of us who don't have the cash to pay for a shipped poster, but have plenty of printer ink and paper on hand? I'd be interested in one.
- fucayama, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15So you never have to worry about being pestered by attractive women again!
- HunterTV, on 10/12/2007, -6/+16"Get an ubuntu poster....Or get a life and get over a friggin OS."
Meh. I think at the heart it's more of an open source thing not an OS thing. Which is great. I mean I use OSX and I haven't tried Ubutu yet, but I'm interested in doing so since I've been on Digg and heard about it. It's a free market, competition is a good thing. Are you using Firefox? If so, then quit your bitching. - arizonagroove, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9"Windows seems to automate everything, while Ubuntu maintains an undesirable low level of control."
Examples? - voyvf, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10@reed311 - i'm happy that i'm using an OS which I can modify to suit my needs, and proud for not feeding a corporation gobs of my hard-earned cash just for the right to use hardware which has already been paid for. i'm even happier that if i make an alteration to the OS that's worth talking about, i can give it back to the community without having to worry about license nazis filing lawsuits because i wanted to share the aforementioned innovation.
furthermore, i'm extremely happy that people don't have to pay *their* hard-earned cash to experience technological advancements such as text to speech, better user-interfaces, and even eye-candy such as what one gets with beryl.
me, i could easily live with using slackware or gentoo, or without linux altogether by using *bsd - but the people behind ubuntu are attempting to make open source easily accessible to the common populace. even if it's not 100% there yet, i think the effort alone is worth a pat or two on the back, and more than worth my buying a few posters to support them.
/end rant - diggcensors, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15As with everything Ubuntu.... i was expecting the poster to be free.... lame.
- BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -2/+101. Do I automatically digg Ubuntu submissions? No.
2. Do I know any Linux-using diggers who do? No.
3. Do the same group of anti-ubuntu people turn up to digg down all the comments and bitch about Ubuntu in Ubuntu submissions? YES.
It seems like it the anti crowd that humps the Ubuntu threads. If they have no stake in it, why? Just don't digg it and move on, surely? - ahlt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8damn it, http://digg.com/linux_unix/Get_an_Ubuntu_Poster
Yeah, submitted by me, 177 days ago. I think those posters are identical... - crestfall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8it's bogged down. Can you post a mirror of the jpg?
- dudinatrix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I would buy it without hesitating if it was a nice, clean, slick looking Ubuntu logo and nothing else. I don't want to hang up an advertisement, I want to hang up something I like looking at.
- marcushe, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Link to poster image is down - mirror?
- geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10http://shop.certiport.com/Shop/Control/fp/tcat/13444/SFV/28737
http://www.microsoft.com/education/SecurityPosters.mspx
Yeah, nooo body else would think "gee, posters". - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I don't know about CPU usage spikes, but if you mean Ubuntu crashes often, loses data, gets viruses and is otherwise prone to freezing up at the most crucial moments, then you're not entirely correct. Whether or not your CPU usage stays constant at 1% has nothing to do with stability of an OS.
- Jenda, on 10/12/2007, -19/+25You do? I'm so happy to hear that :)
I've sent 550 of the A3 ones out already... but A2 is just great ;) - josh1413, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10I want to buy one from the Ubuntu shop, not from some Jenda at ubuntu dot com.
- Jenda, on 10/12/2007, -23/+29Hehe... by the way, the poster is GPL'd, and the sources are available in the same directory as the preview (well, one-up, really).
- willemmulder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8why is everybody burying jenda?? Is there a logical reason I'm missing?
@Jenda: well done, hope you spread as many as possible!! - BHSPitMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Writing code and releasing it freely, priceless.
Ordering hundreds of high-quality A2 posters from a printing firm... well, find me a free one of those. - zman14321, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10digg down
- BHSPitMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Some people contribute by writing code, others contribute by promoting and spreading awareness.
Just concentrating on the poster, some people contribute their artistic ability, and some people contribute time and other resources making projects like this one a reality. - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6There's little/no difference what distro you use, GNU/Linux and BSD are things to be proud of.
People can be proud of their team winning some individual sporting event, and that's universally understood.
Now multiply the time and effort expended by a million, add a dash of principles and a lot of altruism, have everyone working to support themselves at the same time and producing a whole OS and surrounding apps made as Free, open source software.
Very few things carry the weight of that many people's hard work and dedication, short of actually fighting wars or building pyramids. It's the sort of thing you're proud to contribute to, or even just to endorse.
Considering some harmless distro beneath the rest is just stupid. - wburglett, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10look I'm really sorry, I truly am
- UNL1M1T3D, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ubuntu itself is very stable, in fact the only time I have had crashes is when I was using beta software and that is to be expected, or at least is understandable.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%20Posters/HanZo/poster-layout.jpg
On the Ubuntu site, still up at the mo.
If you go ../ there are a load of sources for the poster so you can remix it. - hadak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Cool. I work with the (supposed) original designer of this poster. We've had it hanging up for months now.
- demonsofgoetia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Jenda posted:
"the poster is GPL'd, and the sources are available in the same directory as the preview (well, one-up, really)."
Sounds like the poster can be downloaded, for free, and printed out by the user, should they choose this option. - BZKyle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7Mirror, incase it goes down, again...
http://bzfusion.net/diggmirror/UbuntuPoster/poster-layout.jpg - BlackAdderIII, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Ah, the greatest crime there is, people liking stuff they like.
When communities have all these great achievements, they're proud of it . Ubuntu is a part of those communities. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5For those who haven't a clue what I was referring to, a comment from user "mrfx2" has been deleted, so there's no context.
- Jenda, on 10/12/2007, -16/+20Oh, and some people have been asking me about what the posters look like... well, it's linked from the forum thread, but I'll link again: http://diy.devubuntu.com/repo/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%20Posters/HanZo/poster-layout.jpg
- NeoN068, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Picked up 3... and added alittle extra for support :)
Long live the community! - Limp_Trizkit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Answered my own question. Thanks webcrumb for pointing out the stuff in the directories above...
Link to a big PDF: http://doc.ubuntu.com/~marketing/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%20Posters/UbuntuPosterbyHanZo.pdf - mail4asim, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would buy the posters if there was a little bit variety... personally I would like to see some big Logo posters.. and a bit more colour.
- macoafi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's true. Everyone loves Jenda's stuff. I have a "Powered by Ubuntu" sticker from System76, but the top layer is peeling a bit. Having seen Jenda's at Ubucon, I can say they are quite a bit nicer. We went through probably a hundred of the various Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu ones he's made (some people who had multiple DE's took 2).
Jenda, I want a shirt with the roughcut design! But not black/white. Do it in Ubuntu browns. Make the shirt the kind of tan that matches the default background and ink the color of the "ubuntu smooth chocolate" background. The shirts in the official store aren't very nice looking. And they're cafepress which means they're likely to fall apart or peel. I actually have a friend who prints shirts but I can't make screens, and he'd probably be kinda "wtf?" about it. - BHSPitMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3The forum -has- been around for quite some time now. On a semi-related note, the linked post is from last week.
- cornelli, on 10/12/2007, -10/+13http://diy.devubuntu.com/repo/spreadubuntu/DIY%20Material/Batch%201,%20Posters/HanZo/poster-layout.jpg
Direct link to poster - Smeed, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7One more blogspam
- demonsofgoetia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Wow, thanks for the quick reply! :) Perhaps one could run another UF thread on that with a poll? :)
Everyone I've heard from who has ordered Ubuntu related goodies from Jenda have always been satisfied. IMO Canonical should put you to work with your own factory for these goodies. :) - srg13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"but it is totally usable (and in a lot of ways surpasses) as an alternative to windows."
I know what you mean. I put Ubuntu 7.04 on a partition on my Windows machine, and I was amazed how far it has come in 1 - 2 years. It's incredible compared to my old openSUSE 10 install - support for mp3, quicktime, wmv etc, the nVidia drivers, and Flash were all just a few clicks. -
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