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All Done With Ubuntu

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 3 comments
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Ubuntu, love it or hate it, is quite possibly the most popular Linux distribution around. With an emphasis on community and making the operating system accessible to as many people as possible, it’s easy to see why it’s number one. In fact, I’ve been a strong supporter of Ubuntu since its beginning, beta testing just about every release and I submitted a ton of bug reports to help make it as awesome as it could be. Though my relationship with Ubuntu has often been strained due to Canonical not always putting the interests of the users in direct focus, I’ve always stood behind it. Unfortunately, Ubuntu and I must part ways, as well as any community involvement I once had with it. What strained this relationship? Read on for a first hand account.

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Comments (3)

dinotrac ·
Who cares?

Find yourself another distro and be happy. That is the ultimate strength of linux and free software. You don't have to be at the mercy of a few oversized heads.

Voting with your feet is an honorable path.

I've done it myself on mutliple occasions -- moving from Debian to SuSE when Debian hosed up KDE (that would be about ten years ago in the QT/QPL brouhaha), and from SuSE to mythbuntu when KDE went all 4 on me.

Be happy that other candidates are eager for your vote.
vainrveenr ·
Quoting:That is the ultimate strength of linux and free software. You don't have to be at the mercy of a few oversized heads.
And even within the more general Ubuntu camp, there are also the XFCE and LXDE Ubuntu offshoots minimally tied-down to the "oversized heads; namely Xubuntu and Lubuntu, respectively.

AAMOF, Lubuntu has a VERY active development -- and perhaps more importantly -- an active user community. Here are a few sites that may indicate the degree of Lubuntu's seriousness as a Ubuntu-variant and its active community involvement : - DistroWatch.com's Lubuntu, http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lubuntu - 'lubuntu | light Ubuntu for faster computing', http://lubuntu.net/ - 'Lubuntu - Ubuntu wiki', https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu

From this last link, it is unfortunately true on the base-packages level that Lubuntu must rely on the standard non-LXDE Ubuntu packages. Therefore, Lubuntu is somewhat constrained by Ubuntu and its parent sponsor Canonical :-{ At the same time, the Lubuntu Community's choice of LXDE-specific packages to deploy -- again, the emphasis on the Community here -- helps it break free from Shuttleworth's lockdown-choices for the parent distro.

azerthoth ·
If you attach to the ubuntu repositories ... your running ubuntu, I dont care what jobsianesque letter you prepend it with. {k,l,x,l,ed,#!}ubuntu is still just ubuntu. Its like asking does this rose smell like a rose or a daffodil?

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