Quantcast
Channel: Comments on: The pleasures and perils of less popular distributions
Browsing all 45 articles
Browse latest View live

RE[2]: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

Damn it, why'd I have to read the original comment, it was 10 times cooler when I thought that guy was a cosmonaut... on a crashed satellite. I was thinking ubuntu allows you to use steam in SPACE and...

View Article



RE[3]: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

Well, Clang originated at Apple and is open source, so that's not entirely true. But overall I agree, Apple is primarily a proprietary leaning company.

View Article

RE: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

'Exclusivity for Steam', where did you get this idea from? Steam is already out and it's not exclusive to Ubuntu, distros have also been given the go-ahead to repackage Steam in their repositories. As...

View Article

RE[2]: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

Actually we have to thank University of Illinois for llvm and KDE for Konqueror which was the basis for Webkit. Apple contributes to open source only when they use open source projects. If they start a...

View Article

RE[2]: I agree with the author

Because people only care about graphical crap and design and are fooled by marketing strategies and bling. Technical prowess alone doesn't matter. Just look at Apple products.

View Article


RE[2]: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

No, we aren't. We are going to switch to systemd with Jessie. We're just currently in freeze, so we can't make such fundamental changes. There was a talk by Michael Biebl and Tollef Fog Heen on the...

View Article

RE: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

No, Ubuntu does not pull an Apple. Pulling an Apple would mean doing actual work and contributing back upstream. Apple is the largest contributor to WebKit, CUPS, llvm to name a few. They also help...

View Article

RE[2]: I agree with the author

Did you actually really try that? From my experience, there is no problem which people in the various Debian IRC channels and mailing list couldn't solve. Just ask. Adrian

View Article


RE: I agree with the author

You'd better donated these $100 to the Debian project where the *actual* work on the distribution is done. Such mini distributions do some theming amd custom configuration, that's it. They can't do...

View Article


RE[5]: Not a distro

I think the fact that PC-BSD contains FreeBSD is what makes it a distro. They're just value adding stuff on top of someone else's operating system. There are no customizations to the base system. It's...

View Article

RE: dqhvdaod@gmail.com

Je veux dire que vous mangez de la merde.Edited 2013-03-30 08:37 UTC

View Article

dqhvdaod@gmail.com

Ce n'est pas un secret que l'établissement de votre marque dans un marché au cours de sa création, il est plus facile pour vos clients et les consommateurs à vous associer à ce produit de la mise en...

View Article

RE[4]: Not a distro

FAIL! "Software" not "System". Trying to be clever? BSD's are distributions of UNI*. Linux distros are a kernel (Linux) with *BSD, Solaris, AIX, GNU... user land utilities slapped on and configured in...

View Article


RE[3]: Not a distro

PC-BSD is a BSD guess what BSD stands for... you know Berkley System Distribution. so clearly it is a Distro

View Article

RE[3]: Not a distro

I think it depends on whether you miss/want Mint artwork, extensions and Cinnamon/Nemo or not. Like with lots of Debian derivatives it is all about details, and most of the times they are really...

View Article


RE[2]: Not a distro

I never saw the benefit of LMDE compared to Neptune or aptosid. Would you plase care to enlighten me? (neptune seems to have newer packages of almost all Qt software i use.)

View Article

RE[4]: Not a distro

Ha ha, I love when non tech guys write articles about IT.

View Article


RE: Ubuntu pulls an Apple

Yes, but what does this have to do with big versus small distributions? Most of the big distributions stick to the standards. There will always be discussion on what the "way of the standards" is. -...

View Article

RE[3]: Not a distro

Partial-nope. :-) It's a bit more than that. PC-BSD first of all is the FreeBSD operating system plus a new installer and the PBI packaging system. Furthermore it includes a desktop environment and...

View Article

Ubuntu pulls an Apple

Ubuntu announced few weeks ago that it won't use Wayland display server like the rest of the linux world, instead developing its own display server, Mir. Mir won't be compatible with Wayland and will...

View Article
Browsing all 45 articles
Browse latest View live




Latest Images