Comments on: The success of Ubuntu

By: adamw

adamw — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:28:23 +0000

And, as Greg put it, scene.

By: Telic

Telic — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:14:45 +0000

Meanwhile, Adam Williamson’s “arguments” misrepresent Canonical as insidious hucksters, simply because they don’t disclose exact sales and fiscal figures. Spontaneous mud-slinging for one and all!

Where’s the hyperlink to substantiate Adam’s accusation of Canonical claiming to have succeeded “where other distributors failed in breaking the Windows stranglehold”?

By: phillip

phillip — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:39:26 +0000

Telic, please stop trolling here. If you make your own blog, you can troll there without annoying to many people.

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:08:12 +0000

And when arguments fail, resort to insults and personal attacks. Funny, coming from people who are allegedly fighting for “freedom”.

By: Telic

Telic — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:59:02 +0000

Adamw weasels, “It says right up there in the comment what I did.”

Your failed procedure obviously wasn’t effective in averting your faulty conclusion and subsequent accusation.

Good thing that no one needs to trust you for competent “Plan, Do, Check, and Act.”

Oh, wait, Red Hat hired you for QA.

The horror!

By: adamw

adamw — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 08:00:04 +0000

BTW, the *only* way you seem to be able to get the 10n is to click the ‘Personalize’ link on that page. Even if you click on the system picture, it takes you to the regular ‘Mini’ section of dell.com, where the 10n is not listed or available. I have no idea why Dell would set it up that way, but there it is.

By: adamw

adamw — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:58:02 +0000

It says right up there in the comment what I did. I went to the main dell.com site, I went to the Mini section, and I searched for ‘Ubuntu’. This seems like a reasonable way to go about things. It seems odd that the systems available through that page wouldn’t show up through any of those methods.

By: Telic

Telic — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 07:41:57 +0000

Adamw guffs, “It seems pretty indicative to me of Microsoft’s success in killing pre-loaded Linux on netbooks that Dell don’t offer it in any default configuration on the Mini 9′s replacement…”

That’s either a boldface lie or uncommon incompetence on your part, since the Mini 10 is indeed available from Dell with preloaded Ubuntu…

http://tinyurl.com/ya7rkb4

For someone who’s trusted with QA at Red Hat, there’s nothing of either Quality or Assurance in the poor example that you set for personal and professional integrity in public forums.

By: Telic

Telic — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 03:27:04 +0000

Adamw said, “it’s the standard Canonical set itself, with all its talk about succeeding where other distributors failed in breaking the Windows stranglehold.”

Really? Post a hyperlink to where Mark Shuttleworth or other Canonical executive makes such an assertion.

If your irrational angst is incapable of seeing *whimsy* in Ubuntu’s Bug #1 — “Microsoft has a majority market share” — then try to recognise that the bug status continues to be listed by Shuttleworth as “In Progress” and “Critical.”

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:43:56 +0000

“From my perspective, there are a couple of things standing in the way of a widespread adoption of Linux on the desktop, and neither of these reasons is that people “like” windows.”

Of course. Few Linux apologists seem able to accept that lack of success may have to do with deficiencies in Linux. Your whole argument seems to be that Windows succeed because users are stupid. That lefts unexplained why technically minded people capable of installing an OS on their own find more attractive a RC of Windows 7 than any freely available Linux distribution, but who cares… at least denial gives peace of mind.