On 5/31/19 4:43 PM, James wrote: > Hi Jeremy! > > Really glad to see that you're running for the board! > > Assuming I'm correct in that we're allowed to ask questions to > prospective candidates here, I'll throw in a few... > (Other candidates are welcome to answer as well.) > > 1) What distribution(s) do you use on your personal and work laptops > and desktops?
Work desktop uses a custom distro based on debian (gLinux). Can't go into more details due to corporate rules :-). The desktop here is based on Cinnamon, which is a Gnome3 fork I believe. At home I have several Ubuntu machines (laptops and desktops). The family generally use Canonical's Unity as that's what they got used to. I bounce between Unity and Gnome3 as distributed on the latest Ubuntu release (19.04 is the latest I upgraded). > 2) What's the biggest technical difficulty you've had with modern GNOME? Hmm. Mostly it "just works (tm)" :-). The things I used to complain about with Nautilus got re-added back in the latest releases. Would be nice to see Wayland finished and become the default display server but that's not Gnome's project. > 3) How will you help GNOME succeed on modern mobile devices where the > hardware is often very locked down or difficult to get running on? That's a really hard one :-). As you may know, I'm really not a fan of DRM, but we had some success on Chromebooks which have a developer mode allowing non-Google code to be installed due to the requirements of GPLv3 code - so GPLv3 anti-drm features (which I had a hand in adding to the license) are very important. Locked down environments are unpleasantly susceptible to security holes which can't be fixed other than by the vendor. At a recent CERT meeting in San Francisco I attended I did make the point that license compliance is the first step in being able to report a software Bill Of Materials which is the basis of tracking any security problems in the Free Software/Open Source components a company may ship (and *everyone* ships FLOSS code these days). To cut a long story short, we won't fix this overnight, but patience and education to vendors is our only possible path forward. > Thanks and good luck! You have my support =D > James Thanks ! Jeremy.
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