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Isn't funny how something is done elsewhere and ignored, but as soon as Ubuntu picks it up it's like "look what we can do now, Ubuntu is the roxors!"

Sad but it's becoming like another microsoft where they invent everything after plagiarizing it from someone else!

Except that this isn't plagiarizing. It's one distro packaging something that's been developed - FOR THE PURPOSE OF EVERYBODY ELSE USING IT TOO.

There is no competition with open source, only proprietary products have that mandate.

It's called sharing, and it shouldn't cause you to drop your monocle. Ahem.

So ubuntu is to blame for that? Whos "fault" is it?


Drama queen.

I think there have been lots of Fedora news on OSnews too. I remember some Fedora news where the main topic were the new Fedora desktop wallpapers and not much else...

Fedora and Ubuntu are just popular, therefore covered more in the news. OSnews publishes news - that simple. News stories just don't drop down from the sky but someone has to write them first.

If you do find interesting news about other distros or operating systems somewhere else, please, submit those news to OSnews too, we others might be interested in reading them too. Of course, even better would be to write news about interesting topics not covered elsewhere yet, although not everyone has the skills and means.

Anyway, I agree in the sense that I would like to read more news stories about other distributions too. There are many interesting specialized niche distros (source-based, mediabox distros etc.) inventing new things all the time. But as they are often small, there may just not be that many news about them.


Blehh.., go trolling elsewhere, please. Why are you talking in terms of closed commercial software development when talking about open source? Like already said above, you cannot call it plagiarizing if someone uses some opensource software elsewhere as to have many users and developers - everywhere, not just inside one company - is one main goal of open source.

Also, Microsoft has been inventing many things by themselves too.

And also, Ubuntu is far from Microsoft as the company behind Ubuntu is not even profitable yet and only employs a relatively small number of people still. Ubuntu also hasn't advertised itself much more than any other commercial distro has, the reasons for its popularity are elsewhere.

Well, sending free CD-ROMs like what Ubuntu has been doing, might be too expensive for other distro makers - lacking a millionaire as their sponsor - which has definitely been one reason, but only one, for Ubuntu's popularity. But other than that, nothing prevents other distros or operating systems from doing things better and becoming more popular than Ubuntu - but, whining and trolling is surely not the way to do it.

Edited 2008-11-09 11:43 UTC

It's because you Fedora/SuSE/Mandriva/whatever fanboys have constantly underestimated the power of marketing. You people are constantly complaining about Ubuntu being only about marketing, yet here you see another piece of evidence that people simply aren't going to know what you have done unless you do more marketing.

You fanboys should stop complaining. How can you possibly expect the world to know your achievements unless you market your efforts? Stop treating marketing as some kind of evil act, and start improving your marketing! Marketing is not evil, it is important. Until you understand that you have no right to complain. I'm sorry, your current situation is entirely thanks to your own behavior, not because of Ubuntu.

Edited 2008-11-09 12:58 UTC

There is no hallmark of success more reliable than gratuitous criticism from a wide community of also-rans.

unfortunately that seems to be all to common in the Ubuntu community.
I think all Ubuntu's "innovations" came from somewhere else - Fedora, OpenSUSE, etc.
Now it's all open source so we shouldn't snipe about that but I think the issue is that Ubuntu users (and maybe Canonical) tend to take credit for all this "innovation".

Canonical does a great job at integration - putting the bits together, but I can only think of one Canonical "innovation" and that's upstart.

I doubt that. Red Hat's usb creator works with other distros as well. This thing is natural progression. We have to remember that live cd's started out being installable on hard drives. So this was the next step.

Ins't it funny how on every item about Ubuntu so many people has to whine like little spoiled brats about how much exposure Ubuntu gets?

You man like how Linus invented Linux long after Unix and Minix

Edited 2008-11-11 16:08 UTC

Not only that, but the Fedora liveusb-creator project already runs under Windows. I just used it a couple days ago...