Ubuntu Is Hyper-Active At OSCON 379
ruphus13 writes "Ubuntu and Canonical have been very active at OSCON this year. They showcased a new distro, announced improvements to their code-hosting platform, and made Mark Shuttleworth available for a couple of talks and panel sessions. Quoting: 'Ubuntu Netbook Remix, a complete distribution designed to run on Atom-based Netbook PCs. The main difference that sets it apart from its big brother Hardy Heron is the Ubuntu Mobile Edition (UME) Launcher, a user interface created specifically for use on the teensy screens and keyboards of today's popular ultra-portable computers.' Canonical also announced Version 2.0 of Launchpad, their code-hosting platform. Enhancements include 'a planned API that'll allow third-party applications to authenticate, query and modify data in the massive Launchpad database, without a user needing to manually access the system via a browser.' Mark Shuttleworth went on to state that Linux's market share will grow when it has better eye-candy than Apple's."
Re:If its shiny (Score:4, Funny)
Microsoft's response will be to add autoinjectors loaded with Ritalin to their base operating system installs.
Re:Installation over eye-candy (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, apt-get is good, but it's not yet in the Mac's "drag-and-drop" league.
not it's way better.
Re:If its shiny (Score:3, Funny)
And yet I still haven't "upgraded" to Vista.
Funny how that works.
Shiny... not slimy..
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Re:I don't think eye candy is apple's big draw (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Marketing (Score:3, Funny)
"Ubuntu" is a very unfortunate name. It helps promote the distro with the hacker community (as did the soft-porn desktop art), but it's a disaster for business applications. I've promoted Ubuntu for business use over Red Hat now for years (I got really tired of Red Hat putting out unstable Fedora releases and charging for stable but backwards Enterprise crap). The #1 problem I always run into when I say "Try Ubuntu" is the natural question:
"Ubuntu? What does that mean?"
Imagine the look on a business guy's face when I explain the name means "'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'". I explain that I went to Berkeley, and then everything makes sense to the business guy.