Mangal Seems like great link nice post. -arvind On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 20:45, Anish Mangal <anishmangal2...@gmail.com>wrote:
> 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 >> > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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