Comments on: A fork is not a bad thing

By: Forever Archer

Forever Archer — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:53:50 +0000

Freedom of choice gives you the “choice” of chosing what you want/need. But some “devs” are splitting projects and nesting new “distros”, just for fun or just to be called a “founder”/project’s leader, without bringing something new and ussefull.
But, on the other hand, (unnecessary) splitting projects, the dev community of the original one gets smaller, the new community is small and has small chances of surviving and growing .
We shall not forget history! romans had a great battle technic :
“devide et impera” – devide and conquer. Sadlly, now, this is an “inside” job.

By: Links 9/3/2010: Yellow Dog Linux for CUDA, OpenArena 0.8.5 | Boycott Novell

Links 9/3/2010: Yellow Dog Linux for CUDA, OpenArena 0.8.5 | Boycott Novell — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:45:35 +0000

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By: CorkyAgain

CorkyAgain — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:03:12 +0000

Off-topic, but Phoronix just released some test results that might interest the author and readers of this blog:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_desktop_vitals&num=1

KDE4.4 is a memory hog. But we knew that…

By: Luca

Luca — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:32:01 +0000

I totally agree The new version (see http://www.jonobacon.org/2010/03/03/refreshing-the-ubuntu-brand/ for pics) is better, but I still don’t find it amazing. Maybe I am just too used to OS X at work!

By: JoshMiller

JoshMiller — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:03:19 +0000

You should rerelease Ubuntu with just different Wallpaper and color schemes.

Ubuntu Red Waterfall Edition
Ubuntu Blue Clouds Edition

etc.

You could even do a Red Cloud and a blue cloud, just for more options.

On a related note, the default Ubuntu Color cheme has to be one of the ugliest colored UIs ever. Fedora looks the same style wise initially but it’s Blue looks SO much nicer. Also I like the green of Mint.