IMO, Ubuntu came very late in the scenario when the Linux kernel had
achieved more or less a polished state. Redhat, Novell etc contributed
for it.
All that was necessary was for it to be shiny and popular. Ubuntu
rightly did it (opensuse did it too). Hence, the low number of
patches.
The reason
swapnil, sometimes a frustrated human says much without knowing a little
about(right now its you). if you got time, your valuable time, please move your
as* and look at launchpad. Remember , you should try to look and find light,
rather than complaining the darkness.
* *sorry for top,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [ilugd] Canonical Not A Great Contributor
To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org
Date: Sunday, 28 September, 2008, 12:52 PM
swapnil, sometimes a frustrated human says much
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Thanks a lot for the two links and you are very correct being a Novell
employee, and since Ubuntu is pain in ass (as it is more popular and in turn
making GNU/Linux popular among ordinary usersm thus stealing Novell's
market) of Novell he focussed only on criticizing
Mehul Ved wrote:
Also his arguement was, being
run by one man, who may tomorrow change his mind and stop support to Ubuntu,
then what?
I don't agree to this point at all. Ubuntu is where it is because of
it's community.
Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is called
Bibek Paudel wrote:
IMO, Ubuntu came very late in the scenario when the Linux kernel had
achieved more or less a polished state. Redhat, Novell etc contributed
for it.
You are mistaken. The linux kernel gets hardware support, features,
stability fix's and feature additions all the time - now
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
swapnil, sometimes a frustrated human says much without knowing a little
about(right now its you). if you got time, your valuable time, please move
your as* and look at launchpad. Remember , you should try to look and find
light, rather than complaining the
if you believe the nonsense you wrote here Swapnil, you know neither
Greg nor open source software.
Dear Karan ji, I don't know whether what I wrote up there was nonsense or
senseless. I received an opinion mentioning Matt
Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is
called Debian.
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There are allegations that Canonical is taking away a lot of Debian developers,
hiring them for ubunt, which affects Debian development. Is that
Hi All,
Here are some of the pics for the day 2 of OSS Camp Delhi held at IIT
Delhi.Please follow the link and if there is some issue with the album
,please do revert me back.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
Thanks
Saurabh
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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Anyway, none of what Greg spoke about or posted is incorrect.
What is also true is that most of the software and code efforts at
Canonical are to build and develop close source software.
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
Absolutely, and the technical community around Ubuntu is
called Debian.
There are allegations that Canonical is taking away a lot of Debian
developers, hiring them for ubunt, which affects Debian development. Is that
correct, Karan ji?
I dont know. But it should
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gaurav Mishra wrote:
Example of such softwares (except launchpad, i have read the
explanation of mark on making launchpad closed source right now and i
think i am convinced)
perhaps you would then also be convinced that
Karanbir Singh wrote:
Bibek Paudel wrote:
IMO, Ubuntu came very late in the scenario when the Linux kernel had
achieved more or less a polished state. Redhat, Novell etc contributed
for it.
You are mistaken. The linux kernel gets hardware support, features,
stability fix's and feature
On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Karanbir Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Bibek Paudel wrote:
IMO, Ubuntu came very late in the scenario when the Linux kernel had
achieved more or less a polished state. Redhat, Novell etc contributed
for it.
I came across this comment on Linux Magazine:
Hi all,
Here are all the photos from JIIT's SFD celebrations:
http://picasaweb.google.com/angadsingh007/SoftwareFreedomDayDay0
http://picasaweb.google.com/angadsingh007/SoftwareFreedomDayDay1
http://picasaweb.google.com/angadsingh007/SoftwareFreedomDayDay2
There's a short video clip we shot at
2008/9/29 Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here are all the photos from JIIT's SFD celebrations:
And I hope all that action pushes more students to open their mind.
--
Regards,
Sudev Barar
Read http://blog.sudev.in for topics ranging from here to there.
PS: I know most of people do not follow
Hi all,
I made an attempt at making a GNU/Linux primer at
http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/gnulinux-primer/
To put it simply, just something which tells newbies what it is all
about without getting technical.
What do you guys think? Do you think I may have missed something? Do
Swapnil Bhartiya wrote:
So, I am bringing this issue to the lista and have people's opinion as to
how much Canonical has contributed and how wise is the decision to use
Ubuntu?
I'd say that the 'Canonical' aspect of Greg's talk has over shadowed a
much more pertinent take-away from it - that
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Sudev Barar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/29 Angad Singh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Here are all the photos from JIIT's SFD celebrations:
And I hope all that action pushes more students to open their mind.
Yes we hope so too. We have to keep the momentum. We'll
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