Gentoo’s decline: A case of missing leadership (or rising Ubuntu?)
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- Gentoo’s decline: A case of missing leadership (or rising Ubuntu?)
- Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 – Good News for Laptop Users
- Ubuntu turns commercial
- Canonical is small, Ubuntu as a community is big
- RE: First make money, then contribute
Gentoo’s decline: A case of missing leadership (or rising Ubuntu?)
CNET News, CA
Looked at in that way, is Ubuntu good or bad for Linux?If it’s consuming widespread attention, it may be a good thing for Linux as it concentrates developer resources on a common distribution, one that can perhaps take on the Mac and Windows for the first time. On the negative side, if all attention and development is focused on Ubuntu, doesn’t that undermine one of the basic value premises of open source? Would a mono-culture surrounding Ubuntu be good for Linux?I’m not sure. Your thoughts? Topics:.
Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6 – Good News for Laptop Users
ZDNet UK, UK
10 (Intrepid Ibex) Alpha 6 on both of my laptops over the weekend, and it looks very good. In the original announcement of.
Ubuntu turns commercial
iTWire, Australia
informationmadness. Every single decision about the distribution has been geared to try and satisfy both their own brand of users and the general FOSS community. push(ad);document.
Canonical is small, Ubuntu as a community is big
Newmobilecomputing.com
is only a very small company that is not even profitable yet, unlike a big old corporation like Novell, Greg Kroah-Hartman’s own employer. Canonical’s main focus is sponsoring Ubuntu and also offering some customer support for it. Other things done at Canonical are just extra. A small new company has to have a clear focus like that. I bet many other small companies sponsoring Linux distribution development (not to mention if they are not even profitable yet) do not yet send in that many kernel patches either. On the other hand, Ubuntu as a community is rather big… 
on Mon 22nd Sep 2008 11:08 in reply to “Canonical is small, Ubuntu as a community is big”. Well, that figure may be too high(?), but that’s not the point. Whether the actual percentage is a bit lower or not, the figure certainly gives you an idea why many commercial Linux distributors may have gotten jealous and afraid of Ubuntu maybe eating their bread.
RE: First make money, then contribute
Newmobilecomputing.com
What on Earth are the other 115 hangers-on doing in an organisation that Shuttleworth set up to try and move open source software, and the desktop more specifically, forwards? How do you expect them to contribute the same as Red Hat or Novell? No one does. People are just questioning why they contribute less than Gentoo, Mandriva and other organisations versus their marketing exposure, the funding they have and the number of people they employ. That’s why there’s an increase in the enterprise aspects of Ubuntu. Let’s see how that goes. With 115 to 120 people not directly contributing to code that will make the enterprise market sit up, take notice and think “Wow, we have to have that” then I can’t see them being successful ever. They’re going to sign off with a whimper in a couple of years as no one can continue to bankroll that. I blame Shuttleworth if that’s true.
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