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The Ubuntu GNOME distros blog post tells you everything you need to know:
There will no longer be a separate GNOME flavor of Ubuntu. The development teams from both Ubuntu GNOME and Ubuntu Desktop will be merging resources and focusing on a single combined release... We are currently liaising with the Canonical teams on how this will work out.
Old hands in this field may recall a similar refocusing happened to Red Hat back in 2003. Red Hat dropped its desktop, then called Red Hat Linux, and started up Red Hat Enterprise Linux, in the process becoming the boring enterprise-focused company it is today. But it created the community based Fedora to serve as what Red Hat Linux had once been so not all was lost.
While this is the likely script for Canonical over the next few years, it is equally possible that it may not actually go this way. Canonical may stick with its desktop and still make it a major focus of its development because while the money is in enterprise, what made Ubuntu very nearly a household name is not enterprise, but community.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday May 06 2017, @04:23AM (4 children)
Otherwise known as "the version that shipped PulseAudio." Now Pulse works great these days...almost a decade later. But damn if that didn't cause a lot of headaches back then.
Ubuntu has a deeper problem than just blindly following the latest cargo cult bullshit Poettering pulls out the portal to hell he keeps up his ass though. Anyone know what the word "Ubuntu" actually means? Well, more or less means, as it doesn't work in English. Now see how they've been sucking up to douchebag latte-swilling UX morons for almost a decade. Literally latte-swilling if the symbology on the Ubuntu forums is any indication. I usually don't think accusations of "cultural appropriation" are worth anything but the Ubuntu Linux culture feels like the equivalent of white trust fund kids with blonde dreadlocks now.
I don't know what happened or why. Maybe too much "follow the money." But a decade ago I was really thinking the project would make inroads into poor places and help bridge the digital divide. Now? Bloody hell, install Debian and be done with it.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 3, Informative) by migz on Saturday May 06 2017, @09:25AM (1 child)
Even The Guardian knows what ubuntu means https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2006/sep/29/features11.g2 [theguardian.com]
I guess tossing unity means the "latte-swilling UX moron trust fund kids with blonde dreadlocks" are losing their pull. I mean pushing undo on an 8+ year investment does not sound like "mission accomplished".
When I joined the company I work for I was asked if I wanted windows or Ubuntu. Ubuntu is why I can legitimately run linux on my desktop at work, and get support corporate since it is supported by dell.
They have done more to put linux on the desktop than anybody else. They are far from perfect, but nobody else is delivering.
(Score: 2) by Zyx Abacab on Saturday May 06 2017, @07:44PM
They have done more to put linux on the desktop than anybody else. They are far from perfect, but nobody else is delivering.
I'm with you right here. I've been using all kinds of Linuxes since the early 2000s, and today I use Ubuntu.
It was fun, at first, to fuck around with configuration files, but messing with these things gets tiresome fast. It's nice that alternatives exist—and distros like Gentoo make for a wonderful learning experience—but most of those really suck for getting work done.
If you're looking for a good desktop experience, there are only a couple of reasonable choices; and I've found that Ubuntu is the best one for non-enterprise use.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:52PM
> Now Pulse works great these days...almost a decade later
And, after 10 years of debugging:
# pulseaudio --kill
E: [pulseaudio] core-util.c: XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/1000) is not owned by us (uid 0), but by uid 1000! (This could e g happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.)
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: Success
Notice that if you follow the advice, pulseaudio --kill returns no error, yet pulseaudio respawns so it's ineffective.
"When you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible".
Notice that if you realize pulseaudio respawns and correctly guess there might be a config option not to make it respawn, such an option is in the CLIENT config, not in the DAEMON config. Poetteringware at its best (BTW is he still not heading to his natural place, Microsoft?)
To be honest, pulseaudio does not give me problems apart slowing down mixxx (which still works on bare alsa, phew), but these signs tell me to not touch it with a 10 foot pole.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:24AM
hardy heron was a very solid release for me. i kept a cd around for a long time because i would use it when the then current ubuntu flavor would screw me with some bug.