Shuttleworth: Open-source desktops need a facelift

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Whoa.

Donnyboy is not a fanboi himself? One day it's google, the next it's ubuntu, then it's Apple. He is classic ABM to the core and is more often first than LR, but more people ignore Donnieboy. He repeats the same marketing bits everytime.


So Shuttleworth is going for a new UI? I thought a "pretty" UI, like on OSX was nothing but unnecessary bells and whistles? I really doubt they will touch Apple anyway, considering it's a machine/software combination, specifically engiineered for each other, even though the software is mostly from other vendors. That's a clear advantage and to say he thinks it can be done in 2 years, does he mean current OS X gui, or the OS X gui 2 years from now.


After hearing over and over again that the new UI on Vista is just bells and whistles and is a waste of cpu cycles, it will be interesting to see how Ubuntu programmers can enhance the UI to "apple-like" without affecting resource requirements. Apple couldn't do it. Microsoft did better as Vista is faster than OS X on comparable hardware (test it for yourself) but it still requires more hardware to run it.



I thought Linux based systems are all about not wasting cpu cycles and eing able to run on the most modest of configurations.


Well the linux kernel is growing at a very fast pace, faster than can be resonable tested per an interview with the kernel's manager, the colnol of the kernel, as Torvalds is working feverishly to keep up with enterprise demands and the old way of testing things very thouroughly and building new testing tools has basically disappeared on the kernel project. He and a few other of the most prolific linux kernel contributors are saying testing resources are stretched way too thin and proper testing is not happening.

Now Shuttleworth wants to apply lipstick??


The linux story is littered with contradictions and hypocrisy, and i'm not "trolling", i find that to be very true.

Posted by: xuniL_z   Posted on: 09/13/08  (Edited: 09/13/2008 @ 09:24) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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