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Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by krelian »

rizalp wrote: post #71
Pxtl wrote: post #16

All Linux distros should be free charities and their developers should eat catfood and ramen.

It's funny how the history repeat itself when the company that support certain disro want to monetize it. A long time ago, it's Redhat. Then, SUSE with their licensing deal with Microsoft. Anyone knows what happens to Xandros and Mandriva? I think Canonical should be more honest that they need money. People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough. I think the combination of Stable OS, lots of App…

>People would gladly pay for stable OS that is supported long enough.

Do you see the amounts of complaints they are getting from who paid $0? Imagine the outrage they will face when people who paid $10 start asking for their money back because they don't like feature X of the new release.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by Brakenshire »

h43z wrote: post #172
jbeja wrote: post #10

I am just using Elementary Os.

How do you like it so far? Any issues,bugs?

It's very nicely polished up, and I find it to be much quicker than vanilla Ubuntu. There are still a couple of issues and inconsistencies here and there, and you have to be satisfied with designers making opinionated decisions. One thing which doesn't quite work as well as I'd like is the window switching behaviour- it's a bit of a hassle switching around when you have many windows open. But nevertheless I would say it's the best linux desktop I've used. I also like the developers asking for a small payment upfront, rather than trying to monetize your data behind the scenes.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by stolio »

iwasanewt wrote: post #171
stolio wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll respond, though I'm sure the reason nobody's responded is they're as tired of this conversation as I am. 1) Yet. When boiling frogs it's best to turn the heat up slowly. Canonical isn't providing a service for free here, they make money mining your searches and sending them to 3rd parties like Amazon. Compare this with its parent distribution's Social Contract. [0] Especially the phrase "We will be guided by the…

2b) which part of the Adobe Flash EULA prevents you from working on GNU Gnash?

From what I can tell (and I really don't know) it's rooted in Section 4.5:

4.5 No Modification or Reverse Engineering. You shall not modify, adapt, translate or create derivative works based upon the Software. You shall not reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise attempt to discover the source code of the Software.

Exactly why they're afraid this would be binding I don't know, IP law is beyond me.

- http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/flashplayer10.html

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by rlpb »

DannyBee wrote: post #137
rlpb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "And our use of the trademarked term Ubuntu is plainly descriptive—it helps the public find this site and understand its message." I disagree. askubuntu.com already exists and is officially sanctioned. From domain name alone, I think it's reasonable to assume that users will believe that fixubuntu.com is also officially sanctioned. Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms…

" Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms of the trademark." FixUbuntu is a very very very very clear case of nominative fair use. I can't think of a less close case in recent memory. They are using the trademark as it should be used - to describe the product they are talking about. The fact that Ubuntu may not like what they are saying makes no difference. The disclaimer m…

No, it's passing off, which is a violation of trademark law.

Using the name Ubuntu to describe and criticize the product Ubuntu is fine. Appearing to be an official website to lure visitors in is not. That's passing off.

If walk into a branded store only to find a notice that it isn't actually that brand, it's still passing off.

> The disclaimer makes clear it's not associated...

This was only added in response to the "stop doing it" request.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by jbeja »

h43z wrote: post #172
jbeja wrote: post #10

I am just using Elementary Os.

How do you like it so far? Any issues,bugs?

Been using for the past 4 months and i can say that is fast, easy, out of the way, no bugs so far, boots in a blink, and the design although is a rip off of OSX, is very pleasant to the eye.

On the "bad" side, several packages are outdated (since is base in Ubuntu 12.04) and not too many tools for customization. Is almost perfect. If just want something that just works and not to worry about in the future, use eOS.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by keithpeter »

l337n1nj4 wrote: post #152
klrr wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Linux Mint? Isn't that essentially the same thing as Ubuntu or am I missing something? That is, is it the lens search that is the problem or are there other privacy concerns about Ubuntu?

Mint is based off of Ubuntu, but also has a version based off of Debian, as zx2c4 has pointed out. The biggest difference is that Mint uses the Cinnamon desktop environment, as opposed to Unity, which was forked from Gnome 2. Also, they use Nemo, which was forked from Nautilus, which has more functionality and features as opposed to Nautilus.

I thought MATE was the Gnome 2 fork, and Cinnamon was based on GTK3?

Disclaimer: don't use either, I use CentOS on the serious work machine and Debian (non-free) on the playpad.

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by clarkm »

DannyBee wrote: post #137
rlpb wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "And our use of the trademarked term Ubuntu is plainly descriptive—it helps the public find this site and understand its message." I disagree. askubuntu.com already exists and is officially sanctioned. From domain name alone, I think it's reasonable to assume that users will believe that fixubuntu.com is also officially sanctioned. Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms…

" Traffic generated by users being misled into going there is not legitimate in terms of the trademark." FixUbuntu is a very very very very clear case of nominative fair use. I can't think of a less close case in recent memory. They are using the trademark as it should be used - to describe the product they are talking about. The fact that Ubuntu may not like what they are saying makes no difference. The disclaimer m…

Then how was Facebook able to force the extension FacebookFixer to rename itself to FFixer?

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by jbeja »

l337n1nj4 wrote: post #135
japhyr wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm an emacs person myself, but when I teach Python I have students install Geany. I love it for working with beginners. I'm curious, what do you use Geany for?

Geany is a great IDE, but for Python, I've learned to love Ninja IDE: ninja-ide.org

VIM

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by keithpeter »

cs702 wrote: post #28

Ubuntu provides by default an on/off slider in its privacy settings for disabling the display of online search results in the dash[1], BUT I'm not sure if changing that slider to 'off' will also disable the sharing of searches with Canonical's servers. (The language used by the settings app is ambiguous: "When searching on the dash, include online search results - ON/OFF.") Moreover, I don't particularly feel like sp…

"I've bookmarked it for when I upgrade my desktops from 12.04 LTS to 14.04 LTS next year"

Shuttleworth changes his strategy more often than his underpants but I recollect that there was a 'business edition' of 12.04 that cut out all the Web 2.0 integration stuff. Might be worth checking if a similar edition was made for 14.04.

This is all I can find now, no ISOs for 12.04 any more

http://www.ubuntu.com/content/introducing-ubuntu-business-de...

Re: Fix Ubuntu

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Post by levesque »

zx2c4 wrote: post #102

Solution: stop using Ubuntu. There are lots of other very able distributions out there, many of which not only have better privacy features but also are technologically superior in one way or another. In no particular order, these are all very capable operating systems for a variety of needs: * https://fedoraproject.org/ * http://www.centos.org/ * http://www.opensuse.org/ * http://www.mageia.org/ * https://www.archli…

The problem with other distros is the lack of a design. Ubuntu was the first Linux distro I used that did not look like a donkey's ass (back in 2008~). Even today's Gnome Shell does not look as good as Unity... it also does not scale well for my display's 1600x900 resolution (top bar icons are way too small).

The other distros might work well technically, but imho they don't look as good and they require more tweaking, which is a hassle for me.

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