Shuttleworth To Step Down As Canonical CEO In 2010 163
LinuxScribe writes "In a blog announcement today, Canonical Founder and CEO Mark Shuttleworth revealed he will be stepping down from his CEO role to be replaced by current COO Jane Silber. Both execs do not see major strategic changes on the horizon. Silber's official blog and Linux.com each have more details on how the change will be implemented."
Thanks Mark (Score:5, Insightful)
Linux operating systems are better thanks to you and your contributions.
Not using an Ubuntu logo? (Score:1, Insightful)
Why a Debian logo instead of the Ubuntu logo?
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:5, Insightful)
There are plenty of idiot devs and stupid decisions to go around in all major open source projects, but Ubuntu has managed to scrape together something that I can install on my laptop and quickly set up as a platform for Android development. Which, sadly, is a hell of a lot more than you can say about other distros.
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:5, Insightful)
OpenSUSE? Mandriva? PCLinuxOS?
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:0, Insightful)
A lot of the problems would go away if they just ditched GNOME.
KDE 4.x has matured quite a bit by now. After being a staunch GNOME supporter for many years, I installed KDE 4.3.4 recently, and am very glad that I did! It's a much nicer environment than GNOME currently is.
The integration between the apps is really good. It's almost better than Windows and Mac OS X, and is a lot better than GNOME. The KDE apps all work seamlessly with one another.
It feels really responsive, too. I think this has to do with Qt. It's just a better toolkit than GTK+ is.
After using KDE for a couple of weeks, I don't think that I can go back to GNOME again. GNOME just has too many bugs, not enough integration between the apps, and just plain feels sloppy these days.
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:4, Insightful)
I'd rather see my non-geek associates using dumbed-down, buggy ubuntu than windows, but let's face it -- those of us who use and love Debian, FreeBSD, etc just can't help but feel disappointed by the fact that we can't share our experience of vastly superior performance via these distros aimed at non-geeks. And it's a shame that for a lot of users there is no compelling argument to switch from windows. From their perspective, "it ain't broke, why fix it?".
I know, I know... "-1, Uncomfortable Truth"
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:2, Insightful)
And it's a shame that for a lot of users there is no compelling argument to switch from windows. From their perspective, "it ain't broke, why fix it?".
Why is that a shame? Why can't they just use the OS they want rather than being told that they must use something else?
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Not using an Ubuntu logo? (Score:3, Insightful)
it's a lame attempt at being retro-cool, just like the retention of the Gates Borg icon for Microsoft.
They can screw with the slow-as-molasses Web 2.0 Javascript on a weekly basis, but downloading a icon from Wikipedia to use for Ubuntu would be too much work.
tag: giveubuntuanicon
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:1, Insightful)
Re:Maybe Jane will understand (Score:3, Insightful)
Why not just run debian? I don't think a production server needs to be on the bleeding edge.....
Re:Not using an Ubuntu logo? (Score:3, Insightful)
Slashdot hasn't made a new icon since like 2004. Even when they did the redesign a couple years ago, one of the requirements was to be compatible with all their existing (read: shitty) icons, because they were too fucking lazy to make new ones, and they don't care enough to hire someone to.
If you ever have a question about anything relating to Slashdot, just imagine what the laziest person on Earth would do and you'll have your answer.
Re:Thanks Mark (Score:2, Insightful)
You can do that using wpa_supplicant. It's less scary than it sounds. Get rid of the existing wpa_supplicant process from /usr/share/dbus-1/services, then run:
wpa_supplicant -D wext -i ra0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ... where ra0 is your wifi interface, and wext is invariant.
Add your networks to wpa_supplicant.conf ('man wpa_supplicant.conf').
You can control it and see what it's doing using:
wpa_cli -i ra0 status
I do agree with you though. Here are my thoughs on commandline vs gnome: Windows vs linux 'everything in linux can be scripted -> not really' [hughperkins.com]
Re:Good (Score:3, Insightful)
Remember, Mark injected the 'usability' factor while the development community kept focus on technical issues. You can't scapegoat a prominent individual in a community project, because it's everyone involved that counts, even if they don't have a face on a blog somewhere.
Take for example the various Karmic regressions that left many users upset...
Me: "Sadly proprietary drivers make it hard for developers to create solid GNU/Linux drivers. Did you test your hardware on the beta? User feedback helps squashing bugs, before the final release."
User: "Um... No, why should I? It should just work."
That's not Mark's fault, or lack of decision on his part, but a real-world technical problem FOSS faces in the fight against, well, Free Open Source Software.
That will only happen when we shift from "Who's fault is it" to "What can I do to help?".