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Did Xubuntu and Lubuntu decided to adopt Mir?
--> non-Unity flavours and Mir : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ku...ay/006992.html
and
ubuntu-devel mailing list : https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
--> non-Unity flavours and Mir : https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ub...ne/037250.htmlA good place to start: Topic: Top 20 Kubuntu FAQs & Answers
Searching FAQ's: Google Search 'FAQ from Kubuntuforums'
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Originally posted by whatthefunk View PostMir wont be in 14.04 either.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubunt...t-401713.shtml
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Originally posted by geoaraujo View PostMaybe it's a dumb question but why Mir? Why couldn't Shuttleworth just use Wayland in its "plataform integrated project"? Is there some serious technical issue that really prevents it?
Mobile device support
and
The pace of development
Without making any judgment on Mir or Wayland, I don't think Wayland's pace (on the slow side )
fits with Ubuntu's ambitions (more focus on mobile, and the desire to get it sooner).
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Originally posted by geoaraujo View PostMaybe it's a dumb question but why Mir? Why couldn't Shuttleworth just use Wayland in its "plataform integrated project"? Is there some serious technical issue that really prevents it?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_%28software%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_%28user_interface%29
IMO, Shuttlesworth has created both Unity and Mir because he wanted to control their development stack from bottom to top and not be dependent on others for parts of either. From his POV, and goal to make Ubuntu profitable, it makes sense.
I also see that they give him an opportunity to create a wall between Ubuntu and other distros, especially those which don't adopt either Mir or Unity, by tying Mir and Unity together. In other words, he is building a "walled garden" in which he can capitalize financially on Ubuntu's (former?) popularity. IMO, it will be his Achilles heel. As I said before, Canonical wasn't able to significantly penetrate the MS hegemony and it is too late for the tablet/smartphone market. There is no incentive for a significant number of OEMs to offer the platform on their devices, or for a single OEM to make a significant number of them. But he's still trying.
If Debian doesn't adopt Mir and Unity, and I doubt that they will, preferring Wayland, Gnome and KDE instead, then as the wall gets higher and higher distros will have to choose which base they want to derive from. I'm wagering that most will go with Debian. Of those that don't, the most popular will continue being based off of SUSE or RH.
Regardless, Shuttlesworth set the spring of 2017 as the end of his first 5 year LTS because, I believe, he will close Canonical if his dreams of making Canonical profitable (in terms of comparing it to other investments he could make) have not be realized. Hence my prediction, following his announcement of the termination of support for Kubuntu and the 5 year LTS of 12.04, that it signals a deadline he has set.
Comparing distros is like comparing wives or husbands. To each his/her own. I've never used Unity and only played with it briefly so I can't speak to it in any significant way. But, my son's new System76 Gazelle has it and when I asked him if he wanted me to replace it with a KDE based distro he said no. He likes it. He says it was easy to learn and it does what he wants it to do. I told him if he ever gets hungry for real desktop power and ease of use he knows where the download sites are!Last edited by GreyGeek; Nov 20, 2013, 09:21 AM."A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy, February 26, 1962.
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Originally posted by GreyGeek View PostIMO, Shuttlesworth has created both Unity and Mir because he wanted to control their development stack from bottom to top and not be dependent on others for parts of either. From his POV, and goal to make Ubuntu profitable, it makes sense.
I also see that they give him an opportunity to create a wall between Ubuntu and other distros, especially those which don't adopt either Mir or Unity, by tying Mir and Unity together. In other words, he is building a "walled garden" in which he can capitalize financially on Ubuntu's (former?) popularity. IMO, it will be his Achilles heel. As I said before, Canonical wasn't able to significantly penetrate the MS hegemony and it is too late for the tablet/smartphone market. There is no incentive for a significant number of OEMs to offer the platform on their devices, or for a single OEM to make a significant number of them. But he's still trying.
I think it is much, much simpler. The real issue is that Canonical have never learned how to properly participate in various parts of the linux ecosphere, which quite often has a distinct aversion to things outside of their own boxes. Goals and needs diverge, etc on top of the resentment that has always been present towards things Ubuntu.
(lolol I keep sounding like a fanboi or apologist here. Far from it. Just either get tired of or find amusing, depending on the day, how stupidly overblown, over-analyzed, over-sensationalized and over-zealous all this mostly childish stuff is on all sides)
Ooooh had an interesting thought:
Most distros start at the kernel level and work their way outward to a desktop environment of some sort. Those DEs are tweaked or slightly modified, but otherwise the work on them is done more or less outside of the distros. The DE is "upstream" from the distro.
Ubuntu more or less has always started at the desktop level, and work inward as necessary. So in a sense, before unity, the DE was never the "upstream", perhaps across the stream.
Other than helping to perhaps define how and why things have become so silly, it means nothing probably. I am just in awe of my own rare flashes of true insight and clarity, completely unencumbered by the thought process
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Looks like it that Datamation is at it again in complaining about the direction of ubuntu and the recent criticism. You will find the article The Burning Bridges of Ubuntu contains statements such as:
Meanwhile, elections for the Community Council, which is supposed to be Ubuntu's governing body, were apparently such low priority that they were held a month after the last Council's term of office expired. According to longtime Ubuntu volunteer Elizabeth Krumbach, the delay was due to "waiting on Mark [Shuttleworth]," Ubuntu's and Canonical's founder.
Clearly, the community discontent that has been simmering for the past year has not cooled. Recently, developer Aaron Toponce withdrew from his Ubuntu-related activity because of Canonical's actions. Long-time volunteer Benjamin Kerensa replied by calling for an Ubuntu Foundation that would be independent of Canonical, arguing that it was the only way to preserve the Ubuntu community.
The final two paragraphs are worth noting:
Even more seriously, he shows no signs of being aware of how far Canonical and Ubuntu have strayed from the norms of community in free software. Too often, he sounds impatient with any perspective other than his own.
Considering that Canonical has gone nine years without a profit, such self-absorption is understandable. All the same, if Canonical's and Ubuntu's leaders would hire a crisis manager to oversee their internal and external responses, they could make life far easier for themselves.
Meanwhile I hope "Kubuntu" gets better press than it has at the moment. While there have been some reviews of Kubuntu 13.10, I have yet to see one on Linux Today that describes how to install it and all the applications. They have done this previously but for some reason not now.
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