Hi folks,
My impression is that Ubuntu is neither British or African but is Global, a
feeling that I believe may be shared by Mark Shuttleworth? Canonical had to
be registered somewhere and the IOM is as good as anywhere else.
Just thought I'd slip my twopence worth in.
Cheers, Kev (Kim)
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On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:05:14 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
It's going on nicely, as smooth as Ubuntu in every respect so far.
Not someone who plays .mp3s regularly then ;)
As a Fedora user I would advise and 'desktop' system has the RPM Fusion
repository
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:15 +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:05:14 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
It's going on nicely, as smooth as Ubuntu in every respect so far.
Not someone who plays .mp3s regularly then ;)
As a Fedora user I would
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:42:17 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
I tend to use this guide on fresh installs
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f12.html sadly [s]he has not
released a F13 version as yet. Hopefully it will arrive soon. If your
careful you
Multiple updates going in as Robert instructed; clearly Red Hat is under
the thumb of big IP. Ubuntu is British, thank god.
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:42 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 20:15 +0100, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Wed, 26 May 2010 20:05:14 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
No jr. The owner of Canonical is South African.
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 21:27 +0100, jr wrote:
On 26 May 2010 21:25, Simon O'Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
Multiple updates going in as Robert instructed; clearly Red Hat is under
the thumb of big IP. Ubuntu is British, thank god.
On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:27:35 +0100, jr4...@googlemail.com said:
Ubuntu is British, thank god.
aah, the days of the empire. :-)
Ubuntu is South-African.
Ubuntu is a South African word; the company behind the Ubuntu Linux
distribution is Canonical Ltd, registered in the Isle of Man
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
No jr. The owner of Canonical is South African.
Mark Shuttleworth has set up Canonical in the UK, but AIUI, most of his staff
are in South Africa.
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On Wed, 26 May 2010 21:56:57 +0100, Simon O'Riordan
voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
But I still think that Ubuntu is better. Consumers want to compute, not
sit an exam.
True - though the F/OSS pushers would reply with those steps should not be
needed.
Hopefully updates arn't too bad
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 21:59 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
No jr. The owner of Canonical is South African.
Mark Shuttleworth has set up Canonical in the UK, but AIUI, most of his staff
are in South Africa.
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On 26 May 2010 22:16, Simon O'Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
Yes, but the point is that British law is what enables Ubuntu to be
flexible.
what do you mean by flexible? Flash, etc?
I meant to have a closer look at Pardus (not yet found time).
http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 22:31 +0100, jr wrote:
On 26 May 2010 22:16, Simon O'Riordan voluntar...@btopenworld.com wrote:
Yes, but the point is that British law is what enables Ubuntu to be
flexible.
what do you mean by flexible? Flash, etc?
I meant to have a closer look at Pardus (not yet
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