Hi Staying on the topic of having complete control over h/w AND s/w for better solutions, interested folks may have a look at opencores<http://www.opencores.org/>. It is an initiative to design open-source hardware. The community strength is nowhere near what it is behind any open-source distro but its picking up, though some good amount of work has been done.
In earlier days (and to a large extent, even today) hardware design used to be exclusively proprietary due to astronomical capital costs involved, but the trend has changed with the advent of 'fab-less' companies, who basically design stuff and get it made by someone else. They are the ones who stand to gain the most out of such an initiative. As a great example AMD, Qualcomm and Broadcom are all fab-less (meaning no manufacturing capability)! Regards, Anish Mangal On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 8:17 PM, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan < ashutoshrish...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 7:35 PM, bkd.jdk <bkd....@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 March 2010 12:33 PM, K Ramnarayan wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> This isn't exactly a poll but thought that it would be good to know what > >> people would choose if they had to move away from Ubuntu. > >> > >> Before saying anything i want to put this on record. Ubuntu is one of > the best > >> distro's i have ever used. , its ease in installation, responsiveness to > >> multitude of hardware, the incredibly large and varied repositories, the > very > >> decent derivatives (Mint, Ultimate etc) . The huge forum and support. > >> Basically i like it very much > >> > >> Over the recent months there has been a lot of chatter about minor and > maybe > >> not so minor aspects. > >> > >> First there was the dropping and inclusion of different programmes (e.g. > GIMP) > >> not big things but when many small things add up they become to big. > > (OT) > > These changes may seem small, but they are really big ones. Especially > > the 'window buttons on the left' one. I really don't understand it, they > > shouldn't add such changes in an LTS release. If they would want to > > experiment, they can experiment in Lucid+1. > >> Then there is this > >> Ubuntu is not a democracy, Mark Shuttleworth > >> > >> Sounds crazy saying it like that but to read what he had to say check > out > >> > >> Mark Shuttleworth: "This is not a democracy" > >> http://www.webupd8.org/2010/03/ubuntu-is-not-democratic.html > >> > >> and some related discussions > >> > >> > http://www.osnews.com/story/23039/Kicking_in_Open_Doors_Open_Source_Is_Not_a_Democracy > >> > >> and > >> > >> http://www.itworld.com/open-source/101641/open-source-not- > >> democracy?source=smlynch > >> > > Well, Ubuntu has become very big and that's all because of it's > > community. Not because of Canonical. There are people who spend nights > > contributing to Ubuntu, just for the sake of the community and Canonical > > is now completely ignoring them. In my opinion there should be some kind > > of open poll before making big changes that would affect the whole > > community, but no why will they do it, "Ubuntu is not a democracy" ya > > know :) > > > > Well thats what he meant. Kind off. The kernel team decides the kernel > because they are the ones who work on it. No one else can vote for > their decisions because they have the merit of packing the kernel. The > design team contribute to design and no one outside their team decides > upon the design because they spend nights contributing to it. That > sounds like a professional way to manage things. > > On a personal note, I am completely OK with the buttons on the left. > In fact I had them on the left even before Canonical decided to (my > reason was because mac has it and mac > windows.. stupid reason though > ). Plus, now I am used to it and sometimes feel weird using the > buttons on the right in MS Windows (I have the opposite problem). What > I reason to myself is that: > 1) Canonical's design is new, it does not imitate mac (mac has the > opposite order) nor does it imitate windows. That is bad if you look > at it in terms of user migration from windows to ubuntu. But people > migrate to mac too from their windows and adapt well to it. So ubuntu > has something unique. > > 2) Mark Shuttleworth said that the next Ubuntu will have something > good on the right hand side. Right now there is the extra options to > move the windows from one workspace to the other and all that. But > hopefully they will get something good. I want a zeitgeist activity > journal integrated there. But lets hope for something better. > > -- > Ashutosh Rishi > Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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