You can’t go Gnome again

And Bob Metcalfe used Ubuntu for developing Ethernet.

Ubuntu is teh noob. I've been using Debian since the early 1970s.

PC-DOS (and MS-DOS) would have been a great OS if only Bill Gates had patterned after Ubuntu instead that inferior, feature-deprived Ubuntu knockoff they made over at Bell Labs.

Wozniak actually wanted to run Ubuntu on the Apple II, but Jobs nixed it because it would make the hardware limitations of the machine so painfully obvious.

TC -

And a good choice, too. Debian is one of the better Ubuntu-based distributions. Ubuntu developers graciously acknowledged the Debian team's nice work when they renamed the Ubuntu packages from ".bun" to ".deb" at the same time they changed their package manager from "oven" to "aptitude".

> Ubuntu is teh noob. I've been using Debian since the early 1970s.

I have it on usually reliable authority that Noah's onboard navigation system was running a pre-release version of Slackware. :)

@jdixon --

And you'll note, that Noah stayed afloat while everybody else took on water. My bet is their windows let the rain in.

So.... Patrick Volkerding is Noah?

Anyone use 4.3Ubuntu? I heard a rumor that it was multiuser.

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tracyanne,

The thread has expanded disproportionately on tickling our funny bones. However, I wonder have you received any response from the author explaining the blatant misstatement? Since this appeared in a non-tech publication, perhaps the assertion that too many equate Ubuntu == Linux is valid. But I cannot reconcile that with a person that began using Linux back in the mid-nineties.

It would be interesting to learn the basis for this confusion, e.g. a printing or editorial error might be plausible. We see it all the time in tech and non-tech publications where the connection between the text (content) of articles are tenuously related to the column titles.

[/serious]

YBT

Weren't we all using Slackbuntu back in 96? Im sure it did i remember using the DisUnity desktop which came on 20 floppys.

New biblical epic coming out called The Greatest Story Ever Fabricated by K.Hess" starring Patrick Volkerding as Noah, Linus Torvalds as Jesus and Richard Stallman as Moses.

With the tag line "Truly he was the son of Mark Shuttleworth" said in best John Wayne impression.







For the younger readers who might not get the references see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059245/

You all owe me a new keyboard and monitor.

Fuduntubuntu would not have been possible without Marks great inventions in 1968. For that I thank you.

Very funny, Koriel, and I hope the "kids" who weren't around at the time that film came out appreciate the assist.

Thanks, YBT, for trying to bring back the discussion to TA's earlier missive. I, too, would be curious to see if she got a response.

My take on this: The writer did the same thing I find myself doing occasionally -- running the '90s and the '00s together -- and his mainstream-press editor, who wouldn't know a Hardy Heron if it landed on his shoulder, didn't change it. I don't know what his excuse might be, but I blame age. Of course, the link to the on-line version of this story should have been changed by now, and the writer shouldn't have made the mistake in the first place. But there you have it.

If you take out that error -- a damning one indeed -- the article is not too bad, and for something like this to appear in a mainstream media outlet (error notwithstanding) is pretty impressive.

@txt, no. The email was undelivered, and I'm not sure if the web form was either, it returned a error message.

True, tracyanne -- I just tried to do the same on the web form and got the same message. Pity.

Quoting:no. The email was undelivered, and I'm not sure if the web form was either, it returned a error message.

After reading the comments above, Does anyone blame the guy for deleting his e-mail account.? :-)

Fettoosh -- I can't speak for tracyanne, but I think she probably did the same thing I did. I went to the Manila Daily Standard's Web site and clicked on the "contact us" link. This brought up a form to fill out and a space for correspondence, which I filled out, wrote a note about the error in the article (with link) and hit "send." It should go to someone in the publication to route to whomever needs to see it rather than just bouncing. It wouldn't go directly to the writer from the main page's "contact us" link. But if it bounces, then this publication has bigger problems than this article.

@lcafiero, I understand. I didn't intend for my comment to be taken seriously.

Maybe the just don't take comments from other parts of the world?

Ah. So noted, Fettoosh. My bad. I'll bring my sense of humor next time :-)

BernardSwiss: Interesting observation, since neither tracyanne nor I are from the Philippines (though I would find it hard to believe that someone in the Philippines didn't notice that error).

Does this reflect the true global penetration of Linux on the desktop?

This is not a "tech press" article. This article appears to be a non-teh oriented column in a regular daily paper,. But it's not a North American, British or North-West European journal.

In the interminable war between Linux advocates vs Linux detractors, it is often asserted (sometime honestly) that Linux accounts for only one percent (maybe two) of desktop systems, while others counter that if the figure has any real-world meaning, it applies at best only to N. America and certain parts of Europe.

I personally find it difficult to imagine that a newspaper, in Manila or elsewhere, would publish such an article on a supposedly obscure and techie-fringe operating system -- under the "Business" rubric, yet -- without a fairly clear appreciation that a significant proportion of their readership would have a personal interest in the matter at hand -- which strongly implies that Linux is much more popular in the wider world than is generally acknowledged in ours.

? ? ?

BernardSwiss, you might be on to something. It certainly is supported by the fact that Microsoft specifically invented Windows Starter Edition for these markets. If there was no threat to their World Domination (tm) plans there, they would just leisurely wait for the most convenient time to move in with a regular Windows.