[Bradford] The BBC and Ubuntu

[Tom Holderness]

Unfortunate Rory Cellan Jones didn't help himself any further in his blog
about using Ubuntu for 24 hours
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/
"I struggled to work out how I would organise photos, music and video with
this system."
How hard is it? F-Spot Photo Manager  - The clue is in the name!
This sparked a landslide of comments and twitter was humming to the sound of
some very unimpressed Linux users.
However, he may have forced the Linux community to take action and
re-evaluate our situation within the desktop market (yet again), which is
probably a good thing.

For the first time ever a large scale PC distributor (Dell) is shipping
Linux pre-installed (and has been for a number of years now) and it works
out of the box! While there is certainly a long way to go, in my opinion
Ubuntu with Canonical's marketing power and strategy have made Ubuntu/Linux
a name in the wider technology community. The BBC News Technology Home Page
now has a "Karmic v.s Windows" Link to the previously posted video.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
(bottom left)

Additionally, what does anyone think about Ubuntu's / Canonical's
integration of commercial services within Ubuntu 9.10? Ubuntu One file
sharing is now integrated into Nautilus as default (plus notification icon)
and the new Ubuntu Software Centre has the ability to allow users to
purchase and install commercial non-FOSS software in one-click.


2009/10/27 rich <x-ric at brucenetworks.com>

> On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:18 +0000, Stop Watch Consulting Ltd wrote:
> > Andrea Ryan wrote:
> > > I don't know if any of you saw BBC Breakfast's coverage of the Windows
> 7
> > > release last week, but it basically consisted of 'Windows 7 is great
> and
> > > shiny, Mac is also available, and by the way there's this thing called
> > > Ubuntu which is coming out soon (!) and it's free but no-one wants to
> bother
> > > with that'. I paraphrase, obviously, but you get the idea!
> > >
> > > It turns out I wasn't the only Linux user that spotted this, and at
> > > LUGRadioLive/Oggcamp at the weekend I found out that other Linux users
> had
> > > written to, and had further dialogues with, the BBC about their
> somewhat
> > > biased coverage. I came across this article (
> > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm) on the BBC this
> morning -
> > > perhaps their attempt to placate some of the people they'd upset with
> their
> > > Breakfast segment?
> > >
> > >
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> More than desktops in the world at least they made effort a year ago
> they wouldn't have bothered.  The basic details still seem a little
> confused it's not ubuntu operating system it's Linux.
> I've worked in IT for a while now most of the people
> I work with inside the industry still have no idea
> what Linux is.  What we need to do is increase engineering
> standards across the board particularly in the UK.
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