Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 5th Mar 2007 15:46 UTC, submitted by WillM
"Freedom of choice is one of the great benefits of Open Source Software in general and Linux in particular. This freedom gives consumers the ability to select, without fear of litigation, what software they will use and how they will use or modify it. As a principal, this freedom is extremely valuable. However, a couple of announcements this week seem to indicate that market value of freedom of choice has dipped considerably. The biggest hurdle Linux adoption faced this week wasn't Microsoft, it was an enemy from within: Linux fragmentation."
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RE[5]: Oh, no, not another one
by Lunitik on Mon 5th Mar 2007 17:24
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RE[6]: Oh, no, not another one
by twenex on Mon 5th Mar 2007 17:29
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Member since:2006-04-21
May I refer you to the entry in my blog:
http://latedeveloper.org.uk/2007/02/colour-me-brown-and-unimpressed...
RE[6]: Oh, no, not another one
by zombie process on Tue 6th Mar 2007 05:36
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Member since:2005-07-08
What "documentation?" I'm not saying it's hard to find info on ubuntu, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find an official ubuntu handbook online _ I could easily be worng, but I've ceratainly never seen one. Sure, there have been several books released about running ubuntu, but that isn't really documentation.
Look to the BSDs if you want to know what documentation looks like. Other than Gentoo and redhat (and perhaps SuSE - I don't know since I haven't used it since 8.2) I'd say that, in general, Linux documentation bites the bone. And, yes, my OS of choice *is* linux.
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2006-04-21
Ubuntu is stable, it's clean... and it has plenty of documentation. What more can you ask for in a distribution aimed at non-geeks?
Ubuntu is stable, it's clean... and it has plenty of documentation. What more can you ask for in a distribution aimed at non-geeks?
My first hand experience of Ubuntu indicates that its hardware support is crap...As for the documentation, I hear more complaints about it than praise.