[Klug-general] Is anyone using Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) yet?

[James Blake]

Canonical certainly do contribute less upstream than someone like Red Hat but from what I've read Unity will available to anyone who wants to implement it or build on top of it.  

Linux is all about choice, much as I can't get my head around Unity at the moment more choice is only a bad thing in that it divides development effort.

I haven't really found a desktop I like yet, but I'm a usability facist!

James



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On Jan 19, 2011, at 3:59 PM, Mike Evans <mike at tandem.f9.co.uk> wrote:

> One of the persistent criticisms of the ubuntu project in general is that it has not been a good player in terms of being a contributor upstream.  I've seem refutations of this - but this appears to be a case in point.  No doubt there will be more denials.  Is happens to be true that collaborating with others is generally not the fastest or most efficient way of getting exactly what you want.  So if you are the sort of person (or organisation) that knows your believe you know what you want then doing your own thing will naturally be preferable to you. That such an approach is more akin to dictatorship than 'ubuntu' is, perhaps, unfortunate.
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> On 19/01/11 13:39, Dan Attwood wrote:
>> I'm not sure we'll ever truly know the answer to that, we'll just be
>> able to read the abundant speculation and exercise our choice
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>>    You're right - so the question is, why isn't Ubuntu simply
>>    contributing to Gnome 3??
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