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| kennethh Mar 30, 2012 5:07 PM EDT |
Bamboo https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bamboo-feed-r... I'm currently testing it out, still have liferea installed but I think bamboo for me is here to stay. |
| Steven_Rosenber Mar 30, 2012 10:13 PM EDT |
How many of these applications run on systems that aren't Ubuntu? All of them, I would imagine. |
| nikkels Mar 30, 2012 11:11 PM EDT |
Slowly but sure, I am developing an allergy for:
this for ubunti, that for ubuntu.
Not only that, but all " this and that " I am using for years already. English is not my native language, so, forgive me.... To me it looks like this: Finally this reader has arrived in ubuntu Finally this paint program has arrived in ubuntu Finally....... I am going to be perfectly honestly with LXer staff. I fully realize what LXer is and what it does, but I am developing this feeling that I rather not come to here and read : Buntu this and Buntu that, every second article. nb: Got nothing against the Distro itself. Am using ArtistX too. |
| kennethh Mar 31, 2012 12:07 AM EDT |
I recall how when I too wanted gnu+linux to succeed and remembering how so many others wanted it to as well, succeed in competing and giving more choice to the everyday folk. Now it seems as though not everybody wants that, they are very anti-ubuntu and I agree to an extent.. While I don't agree with Unity on the desktop, nor do I like music players being switched up, windows buttons being moved amongst countless other thing--ubuntu does many things right/ There are always going to be goods & bads and you either accept that fact or simply ignore it like I do with goog and other websites/products/services. |
| BernardSwiss Mar 31, 2012 1:55 AM EDT |
Ubuntu was very exiting back in the Hoary Hedgehog and Dapper Drake days. but after Hardy Heron (8.04 LTS) the bad news started weighing more and more heavily. A big, successful, commercial and free Linux Desktop seemed to be a wonderful thing, but now Ubuntu seems bent demonstrating how a FOSS company can manifest many of the very same characteristics that drove people away from proprietary desktop OSs to (Gnu/)Linux in the first place. |
| djohnston Mar 31, 2012 4:17 AM EDT |
Quoting:I recall how when I too wanted gnu+linux to succeed and remembering how so many others wanted it to as well, succeed in competing and giving more choice to the everyday folk. Now it seems as though not everybody wants that, they are very anti-ubuntu and I agree to an extent.. @kennethh, I believe the "anti-Ubuntuism" stems from the fact that too many Ubuntu users and article writers tend to portray Ubuntu as though it is the only Linux distro. Or that other distros are somehow not as "user-friendly" or as usable out of the box. As Steven_Rosenber has pointed out, the programs, most likely, will run on any flavor of Linux. My other beef is the superlatives used to portray something associated with Ubuntu. Wallpapers and icon sets are described as "gorgeous" and applications are said to be "awesome", ad nauseum. And, yes, Mark Shuttleworth is slowly eroding his original support base. Many see Canonical as drifting away from its original community-based and "humanity" credo. |
| Khamul Mar 31, 2012 10:17 PM EDT |
@nikkels: There's a couple of issues here. 1) For some stupid reason, the tech press and blog writers, when they write an article about "how to do X in Linux" or "top ten X programs on Linux" or some other dumb article-of-the-day about Linux to get pageviews, instead of saying "on/in Linux", they say "on/in Ubuntu" because they believe Ubuntu has the highest marketshare of Linux distros (which is probably true at the moment, but appears to be falling, though there's no real way to know since there's no reliable way of getting such stats, only indicators such as stats from certain websites). It's very annoying, because most things work the same across distros, and even things that don't will work the same across Debian-derived distros, of which Ubuntu is but one. 2) LXer is a news aggregator, and appears to have a policy of simply publishing anything that's remotely Linux-related, good or bad, though usually they seem to find out about these articles by user submissions (and the users are frequently the article authors themselves, trying to generate publicity for their articles so more people will click on them and gain them more advertising dollars). So if Ken Hess for example decides to write 100 inane Linux-related articles all in one day, and submits them all, LXer will publish all 100 articles, even if they're nothing more than Ken showing how to view pictures of cats in Linux. If this annoys you, your only real choice is to not visit this site; however, there isn't really much competition for it. The only other Linux news aggregation site I know of is LinuxToday.com, and it has serious problems and I'm frankly surprised it's still alive; their editor seems to frequently take several days off in a row, so no new articles are posted, and when he is around, it's pretty much the exact same articles as on here, with the same lack of filtering for quality. The commentary on there isn't very good though; there's one guy named Rainer Weikusat who posts frequently, half the time his comment being inane or almost nonsensical, and about a quarter of the time being spot-on or even brilliant at times; other than him there's very few regular posters, and a couple of trolls. |
| tuxchick Apr 01, 2012 7:26 AM EDT |
Quoting: How many of these applications run on systems that aren't Ubuntu? All of them, I would imagine. I think we're well past the point of any astonishment that Ubuntu is not the only Linux distro. |
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