Ubuntu

richardj · Post by **richardj** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 9:51 pm

Wooing "the community"

Ubuntu's gains come at a time when the commercial powers of the Linux realm are trying hard to engage the vast and amorphous group loosely known as "the open-source community." This band includes new and experienced programmers at major corporations, schools and cash-strapped start-ups, and it spans the globe. Harnessing its talents can make it easier to develop new features, find bugs, build a customer base and set development priorities.

Red Hat's community project, Fedora, has had some troubles, but the project and the company's relationship to it get "better by the month," Chief Executive Matthew Szulik said. Novell has launched a similar project, OpenSuse, and spokesman Kevan Barney said the company believes that it has "a much broader user community" than does Ubuntu. Even Sun Microsystems, which is making a version of Unix into an open-source project called OpenSolaris, believes that it can benefit from the approach.

But the project most likely to benefit from Ubuntu's success is Debian, a decidedly noncommercial project. Ubuntu is based on Debian's development version, called Sid, and Ubuntu programmers are collaborating well on the GNOME desktop interface software and the X.org low-level graphics support, Waugh said.

Quantifying Ubuntu's gains is difficult. For example, it doesn't show up in IDC's revenue charts, since it's available for free, even for those who want installation CDs sent to them. But there are some signs. For one thing, there are 60 people who are authorized to approve Ubuntu software changes and many more who supply them with the modifications. Ubuntu also distributed 1.4 million copies of its first version, called Warty Warthog. And it tops the reader interest charts at DistroWatch, a site that catalogs Linux distributions.

One thing Ubuntu lacks is commercial partnerships, but there are some early signs that's changing. VMware, whose software lets multiple operating systems run on the same computer, added experimental Ubuntu support with its new version 5 beta, citing customer demand. And Hewlett-Packard sells notebook computers with Ubuntu in Europe and Africa, with plans to expand to desktops in the region, spokeswoman Nita Miller said.

Home site-download-FREE

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:23 pm

have it, run it, and you should try it.

It also come packaged with BSD.

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:38 pm

YES--I could have downloaded it , but they're going to send me 3 CDs

1-for Windows

1-for MAC

1-for 64bit Windows

Not even charging postage!

What's BSD?

Blue Screen of Death??

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syb · Post by **syb** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:15 pm

ya i just got it on my comp too

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Fri Sep 22, 2006 3:24 pm

lol,

no, bsd is a unix clone.

never heard of free bsd?

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syb · Post by **syb** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 6:51 pm

nope.
What's the difference between them?

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richardj · Post by **richardj** » Sun Sep 24, 2006 9:05 pm

Is this hard to learn?

Will my printer & DSL modem work?

Are the BSD's like the Free 'office' & stuff like that?

Will anything that runs on Linux run on this?

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onykage · Post by **onykage** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 1:10 am

if you can find it for linux then you can find it for unix. And in alot of cases linux/unix programs install and use the same libraries, so when you install something or (make && make install), the shell scripts basically run the same commands and compile the software in the same ways.

Yes your equipment will work under linux /unix. I will warn you ahead of time tho. Nix isnt windows, there is no vanilla config that comes with it. In alot of cases there isnt a config file, it has to be created by you the user.

If your curious about linux and not sure, i recomend fedora. Its free, and is fairly user friendly, plus you can find prety much all the info you will ever need on linuxforums.org.

And if you feel your getting frustrated when you cant seem to figure out how to do something in linux, then join the crowd of the millions of other confused people. If you make it past the confusion, you will forever be a linux junkie. If you give up, you will probably always stick with microsoft.

thats about all i can tell you about linux without getting into way more detail which is boreing and useless. Just try it. You might like it. Speciallly the "Its immune to spyware, and viruses" feature.

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