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On Tue, February 10, 2009 11:12 pm, Joshua D Doll wrote: |
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> Roy Wright wrote: |
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>> Mick wrote: |
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>>> On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Joshua D Doll wrote: |
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>>>> Saphirus Sage wrote: |
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>>>>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>>>>>> http://video.linuxfoundation.org/video/1069 |
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>>>>>> |
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>>>>>> I found it quite interesting that even Gentoo beat Canonical in the |
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>>>>>> amount of patches contributed upstream... |
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>>>>> Good find, I actually didn't know about E-Trade using Gentoo |
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>>>>> servers. I |
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>>>>> don't think it should be too surprising that Gentoo would contribute |
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>>>>> more patches than Conical, as until today, I'd only actually heard of |
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>>>>> one of them. |
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>>>> This video brought up an interesting question by my friend (an ubuntu |
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>>>> user). How would one go about getting Canonical or the ubuntu |
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>>>> community |
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>>>> to change their practice of not contributing fixes back upstream? |
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>>>> Without having to change distributions. |
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>>> |
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>>> Gentoo involves you more with what goes bad under the bonnet and the |
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>>> average Gentoo user is more interested in the workings of their OS to |
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>>> attempt troubleshooting it and filing bugs. Your average Ubuntu user |
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>>> is less likely to get their hands dirty, unless they are a dev. So, |
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>>> essentially we are talking about different user profiles here. To |
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>>> answer your friend's hypothetical question - he would either have to |
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>>> change your average Ubuntu's user technical aptitude, or change the |
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>>> user. Either attempt may mean the end of Ubuntu as we know it. |
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>> |
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>> The ubuntus are targeted at disgruntled windows users while gentoo is |
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>> targeted at unix users. The former are used to complaining and |
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>> getting no response while the later know it's their responsibility to |
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>> help make it better... |
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>> |
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>> Have fun, |
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>> Roy |
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>> |
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> I think you may be right with your assessment there Roy. The only |
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> solution I could up with was to change distributions he didn't like that |
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> suggestion, not sure why, because changing distros is like changing |
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> underwear. Maybe he has some strange fascination with Ubunutu's pretty |
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> color scheme? |
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Wouldn't the following solve that though? |
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# echo "x11-themes/gtk-engines-ubuntulooks ~*" |
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# emerge gtk-engines-ubuntulooks |
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It's currently at version 0.9.12-r2. I have not used this, so I have no |
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clue how well this works. |
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