Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th May 2010 22:23 UTC
"UDS is over! And in the customary wrap-up I stood up and told the audience what the Foundations team have been discussing all week. One of the items is almost certainly going to get a little bit of publicity. We are going to be doing the work to have btrfs as an installation option, and we have not ruled out making it the default. I do stress the emphasis of that statement, a number of things would have to be true for us to take that decision."
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Well, we all know that *most software is seen in fedora before ubuntu, but the suggestion that Ubuntu uses or builds upon fedora is ludicrous. Ubuntu is based on Debian.
Learn to read. Nobody wrote that Ubuntu is based on Fedora. Ubuntu uses specific features from Fedora (like Plymouth). Many features Ubuntu uses may be in default Debian, but are primarily developed by Red Hat with Fedora in mind: For example Red Hat tries to make Nouveau 3D "good enough" for compositing window managers in Fedora 14.
As Fedora is always released ~1 month after Ubuntu, that's too late for Ubuntu 10.10.
Even with smaller financial resources, Canonical could assign a developer to also work on Nouveau and finish that work a month earlier in time for 10.10. Canonical does not do that. Canonical employs people but only very, very few of them participate in upstream FOSS projects.
Comparing the work force, Mandriva and Canonical are roughly equal in size (~100 employees), but despite Canonical's much deeper pockets, Mandriva is ahead of Canonical in every FOSS contributions statistic I know.
go to work for a closed-source proprietary company like Apple
Apple (co-)develops WebKit, CUPS, GCC, LLVM, and much more. Strange that a "closed-source proprietary company" contributes much more to FOSS than Canonical...
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I should note that Canonical has more than 300 employees. Not 100.
http://www.linkedin.com/companies/canonical-ltd
Not sure of the organization split of developers vs others but you can make rough estimates
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Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/13/13 14:35 UTC
The third and final WWDC product I want to talk about is - of course - OS X 10.9 Mavericks. While iOS 7 was clearly the focus of this year's WWDC, its venerable desktop counterpart certainly wasn't left behind. Apple announced OS X 10.9 Mavericks, the first OS X release not to carry the name of a big cat.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/11/13 17:07 UTC
We already talked about iOS 7 yesterday (after a night of sleep, it's only looking worse and worse - look at this, for Fiona's sake!), so now it's time to talk about the downright stunning and belly flutters-inducing new Mac Pro. As former owner and huge, huge, huge fan of the PowerMac G4 Cube - I haven't been this excited about an Apple product since, well, I would say the iMac G4. This is the Apple I used to love.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/10/13 23:13 UTC
Apple held its big keynote event thing at WWDC earlier this evening, but since I was away with friends I've had to read up on it later in the evening. The company announced iOS 7, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, and they gave a preview of the new Mac Pro. Especially the Mac Pro impressed me, and while iOS 7's new Holo/Metro-inspired theme looks messy and garish to me, I do commend Apple for finally breaking the mold. This news item will focus on iOS 7 - I'll dive into the Mac Pro and OS X 10.9 tomorrow (it's late here now).
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/08/13 14:57 UTC
And yes, the PRISM scandal is far, far from over. More and more information keeps leaking out, and the more gets out, the worse it gets. The companies involved have sent out official statements - often by mouth of their CEOs - and what's interesting is that not only are these official statements eerily similar to each other, using the same terms clearly designed by lawyers, they also directly contradict new reports from The New York Times. So, who is lying?
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/07/13 11:40 UTC
This story is getting bigger and bigger. Even though most Americans probably already knew, it is now official: the United States government, through its National Security Agency, is collecting the communications and data of all American citizens, and of non-Americans using American services, through a wide collaboration with the large companies in technology, like Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and so on. Interestingly enough, the NSA itself, as well as the US government, have repeatedly and firmly denied this massive spying on Americans and non-Americans took place at all.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 06/04/13 12:45 UTC
Ah, patents - the never-ending scourge of the technology industry. Whether wielded by companies who don't actually make any products, or large corporations who abuse them because they can't compete in the market place or because they're simply jerks, they do the industry a huge disservice and are simply plain dangerous. According to The Wall Street Journal (circumvention link), president Obama is about to take several executive actions to address patent trolls - which may seem like a good idea, but I am very worried that all this will do is strengthen the positions of notorious patent system abusers such as Apple and Microsoft.
Linked by nfeske on 05/31/13 10:12 UTC
With version 13.05, the developers of the Genode OS Framework take measures to ensure that Genode continues to scale well with a growing number of users and the steadily broadening platform coverage. Further highlights are the improved SoC support for Exynos 5, OMAP4, Raspberry Pi, i.MX, and new components for realizing headless systems.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/29/13 16:59 UTC
At the D11 conference, Apple CEO Tim Cook once again took the stage to be interviewed by Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher. While most of the interview can be replicated by picking and reading 10 random Apple fanblog stories - there were still a number of very interesting things that warrant some closer scrutiny.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/24/13 17:26 UTC
So, the Xbox One disaster continues. Microsoft's policy for dealing with the used games market has reportedly leaked - and it's a clear and direct attack to destroy the used games market. Prices for used games will be set at the retail value of a new game, and retailers have to hook into Microsoft's computer systems and comply with Microsoft's terms and conditions.
Linked by Thom Holwerda on 05/21/13 21:38 UTC
At an event earlier today, Microsoft unveiled the next Xbox - the third model, but confusingly named Xbox One. The big focus was TV, integrated Kinect, and all the other stuff we all expected to be forced down our throats. I think it took them 25 minutes to actually come to what should be the core of the story: gaming. Nothing groundbreaking in the gaming department, except for how Microsoft intends to handle the used games market and borrowing games from friends: pay up, buddy!More Features »
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Well, we all know that *most software is seen in fedora before ubuntu, but the suggestion that Ubuntu uses or builds upon fedora is ludicrous. Ubuntu is based on Debian. Any time Mark Shuttleworth outlines the issues that need to be worked on in the next release, the developers in question use debian testing/unstable as the base for these changes. For instance: Mark wanted a better graphical boot experience. The devs looked into debian testing and grabbed plymouth. I know Redhat, and hence fedora, developed this piece of software, but if it wasn't in debian at some point, ubuntu wouldn't have used it.
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I see so many comments here about how ubuntu "steals" from fedora that I can't ignore them any longer. Red Hat (and hence fedora), are THE top suppliers of ENTERPRISE linux, and as such, have more developers working not only on existing FOSS technologies, but also coming up with new software, to suit their goals and clients. This is the nature of FOSS. Just because I use your software to make something better suited to my particular situation, which may not be YOUR priority, but which may also cause bug reports to be filed upstream (mostly by inexperienced bug filers), does not mean I'm stealing. Isn't this the entire reason we all wanted to use FOSS in the first place?
In conclusion, and as a developer who both causes problems for upstream and hears about problems downstream; RELAX!!!! If you can't handle a few (or many) emails a day asking what's wrong, and subsequently redirect them to the people who know about the problem (or fix them yourself, as many bugs filed upstream are only found out when used by more people downstream), you either need more people working on your project (which you should ALREADY be grateful for), or should probably go to work for a closed-source proprietary company like Apple (they never hear about anything downstream, or don't listen).
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