Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 8th Jul 2009 18:34 UTC, submitted by rlem6983
Google's recent move of revealing the Chrome OS to a suspecting public has put a great many people on alert. Some say it's a major privacy issue, some say Google oughtn't to become more and more monopolistic, while others think that the wide array of popular Linux distributions shouldn't become even more fragmented than it already is. "Google's decision to create its own Linux distribution and splinter the Linux community decisively once again can only be seen as foolhardy and self-obsessive.
Instead of treading its own path, Google should have sought to leverage the stellar work already carried out by Mark Shuttleworth and his band of merry coders and tied its horse to the Ubuntu cart."
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Member since:2006-02-05
Why is everyone touting Ubuntu as the savior for Linux? They contribute barely anything upstream, and their idea of innovation is a friggin notification system, give me a break.
for an incomplete list, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/Content/UbuntuContributions
I more or less agree with the rest of your post, just ubuntu gets a bad rep about contributing back, when they actually do quite a bit.
RE[2]: No thanks Ubuntu.
by sbergman27 on Wed 8th Jul 2009 21:38
in reply to "RE: No thanks Ubuntu."
Member since:2005-07-24
just ubuntu gets a bad rep about contributing back, when they actually do quite a bit.
Sour grapes on the part of proponents of distros with a less realistic grasp on reality of what new users need to get started, and less marketing competence.
Usually what happens is that Ubuntu's contributions are either ignored, or arbitrarily cast in a negative light. The same folks who would trumpet the useless and pointless pile of bugs that is PulseAudio tend to trash truly useful advancements like Upstart. Another approach, preferred by folks like GKH, is to tunnel-vision in on statistics from their own pet project as though it were representative of the entire Linux desktop landscape.
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Why is everyone touting Ubuntu as the savior for Linux? They contribute barely anything upstream, and their idea of innovation is a friggin notification system, give me a break.
Google looks like they're actually going to do something revolutionary, that can possibly change the game. It's all going to be open source too, so how can you say they're continuing their monopolistic ways?
Lets not forget that the technologies Ubuntu gets credit for originated at either Red Hat or Novell, with most of the hardware stuff - Project Utopia results - spearheaded by someone that already works for Google.
Most of the best minds in open source - including the maintainer of the 2.6 branch of the kernel itself - have joined Google, and I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with when they don't have to restrain themselves with the status quo.
Personally I'm sick of working in the same interface paradigms that existed when I started using computers 20 years ago - in systems that were designed without even supporting TCP/IP natively! Google always seems to bring a fresh perspective, and I'm ready for one!