Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.
It's a fresh relief to see positive comments once in a while :) Thanks for your kind words. On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 09:40:04AM -0700, Dane Mutters wrote: > I'm writing in response to some recent emails on this list that may have > had a discouraging effect on the developers and other community members. > While Some constructive criticism is needed, I would like to remind > people that the developers are essentially volunteers who put a LOT of > hard work into making a really great Linux distribution. > > So, the essence of what I'd like to say is that the Ubuntu devs (and > those who contribute in any to the Ubuntu distro) are awesome and > deserve a lot of respect. You've done wonders for making this (IMHO) > the best distribution out there. > > Thanks for your work. I look forward with great anticipation to > installing Gusty on my box. > > --Dane > > > -- > Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list > Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.
This has been the best release cycle so far for me. I have found the developers more responsive than ever and a good number of the bugs I'm most interested in have been fixed. There are also some lovely nuggets of joy in the 7.10 release like finally having a GUI method for installing a bluetooth mouse (kudos to the bluez devs!). My experience with the system-config-printer folks was also very gratifying. And the work on xserver-xorg-video-intel has not gone unnoticed on my machine. Many many thanks to you all! - Andrew Jorgensen -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 13:21 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It's a fresh relief to see positive comments once in a while :)
>
> Thanks for your kind words.
Like many occupations, this is one where doing a good job means that
people don't realise you're there. This means that most of the attention
gained is for negative things ("Fix this for me").
Chris
PS: I add my own thanks. Nothing is perfect, but Ubuntu is getting
better all of the time and raising the bar for other distros. That's a
great achievement.
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Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:40 -0700, Dane Mutters wrote: > So, the essence of what I'd like to say is that the Ubuntu devs (and > those who contribute in any to the Ubuntu distro) are awesome and > deserve a lot of respect. You've done wonders for making this (IMHO) > the best distribution out there. > I have to agree. I am absolutely amazed on how good Ubuntu is. I have been using Linux since 1995 but never on the desktop side. I've tried a couple of times but always reverted back to Windows. Last February I got a new laptop at work and then I decided to try Feisty Fawn which IIRC was a beta back then. I pretty soon also switched my home PC to Ubuntu from Windows XP. I can't see that I ever will be switching back to Windows again. Now with Gutsy I'm more pleased than ever. I've been using it for maybe two months now and I haven't really run into any serious trouble (except when I tried to install it on my laptop which has a mobile ATI graphics card). The fast-user-switch-applet works really great. I couldn't imagine it any better. Before it was a nuisance because we are two users on my home PC and having to enter your password twice every time we switched got very boring. Big thanks to everyone who helped in the creation of this great OS! Rgds Thomas Novin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.
I also think Ubuntu is improving at an tremendously phenomenal rate. When I bought my laptop in june, Ubuntu couldn't even boot (it was stuck in busybox). Then they fixed that bug but there was a problem with X.org not being able to use my widescreen, but after a few weeks that bug was fixed too. Then there was the wireless networking that came unexpected over apt-get one day, first the driver so that I could list the access points etc. Then in the gutsy release version wireless worked perfectly. Was amazed me the most was that setting up wireless in gutsy was MUCH easier than it was in Vista (and this was a laptop with pre-installed Vista!) because Vista had all these weird dialogs asking me if it was WPA1 or 2 and whether is was AES and what keysize etc. In Ubuntu, I got once such question (which was WPA or LEAP) and then everything else, beyond the password to the accesspoint, was autodetected! The only thing that doesn't work at this point is the sound card (I'm one of the poor guys with a PCI ID "8086:284b" type of card) and I know that some people talented people are working very hard to resolve that problem. Oh, and my GMA Intel X3100 gfx card is blacklisted by Compiz too but I just hack around that :-) So, I too would like to thank all the devs that checked in code to any of the projects that is aggregated and shipped on the Ubuntu platform! Martin Thomas Novin wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 09:40 -0700, Dane Mutters wrote: >> So, the essence of what I'd like to say is that the Ubuntu devs (and >> those who contribute in any to the Ubuntu distro) are awesome and >> deserve a lot of respect. You've done wonders for making this (IMHO) >> the best distribution out there. >> > > I have to agree. I am absolutely amazed on how good Ubuntu is. I have > been using Linux since 1995 but never on the desktop side. I've tried a > couple of times but always reverted back to Windows. Last February I got > a new laptop at work and then I decided to try Feisty Fawn which IIRC > was a beta back then. I pretty soon also switched my home PC to Ubuntu > from Windows XP. I can't see that I ever will be switching back to > Windows again. > > Now with Gutsy I'm more pleased than ever. I've been using it for maybe > two months now and I haven't really run into any serious trouble (except > when I tried to install it on my laptop which has a mobile ATI graphics > card). > > The fast-user-switch-applet works really great. I couldn't imagine it > any better. Before it was a nuisance because we are two users on my home > PC and having to enter your password twice every time we switched got > very boring. > > Big thanks to everyone who helped in the creation of this great OS! > > Rgds > > Thomas Novin > > -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: You devs rock. Thanks for your work.
Dane Mutters wrote: I'm writing in response to some recent emails on this list that may have had a discouraging effect on the developers and other community members. While Some constructive criticism is needed, I would like to remind people that the developers are essentially volunteers who put a LOT of hard work into making a really great Linux distribution. So, the essence of what I'd like to say is that the Ubuntu devs (and those who contribute in any to the Ubuntu distro) are awesome and deserve a lot of respect. You've done wonders for making this (IMHO) the best distribution out there. Thanks for your work. I look forward with great anticipation to installing Gusty on my box. --Dane As anonymous lurker, I thank you too, in name of a lot of anonymous lurkers probably. It's an amazing effort to put together such a nice distro. I've come from RedHat, over Suse, over Gentoo to Ubuntu and this is the place I feel most at home. I've often felt I should contribute more, but by the time I can really test my patch for a particular itch, the distro has already taken care of it or I'm not routined and it takes me too long. Sometimes it's hard to find instant gratification, but none of your contributions can be underestimated. Sighh... You devs... Dries. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
