Wrong answer.
giant by brom. License:
The six month release cycle is not an all-controlling god, and bugs in one known, specific subsystem are not undebuggable without wide release (which was KDE’s most valid excuse). If it isn’t ready for wide use, it isn’t and shouldn’t be a GNOME .0. It isn’t ‘too late’ to decide [...]
A couple of weeks ago I finished reading Cass Sunstein’s Infotopia. While certainly not a perfect book by any stretch, it gives a stimulating overview of a central problem for any society- how it collects and filters information so that it can make decisions. Being a good U of C guy, he starts with Hayek’s [...]
I was cited in an article on testing tips this past week. Here is some cut and paste from the email I sent to the author (Joe Barr) when he asked me for tips; my email goes into more detail than he was able to put in his article so I thought it might be [...]
Diebold is considering selling their voting machine unit. RH, this is your chance.
Actually used a Wii for the first time this weekend. What fun. This is real thinking outside the box. (I’ve never owned a game machine, and never previously been particularly tempted. But I am now, esp. since I didn’t buy myself anything for [...]
Heard from Ubuntu this morning (in comments and via email, neither official) so I figured I owed an update, having slammed them fairly thoroughly here :) So some notes from email and comments:
I didn’t see an official Ubuntu announce about this because I didn’t look in the most obvious place of all- ubuntu.com. Looking there [...]
Yesterday I flamed Ubuntu, I think with cause, for breaking X. Followups:
Points out of the comments in that thread yesterday:
Fedora now believes that they are going to be able to support (apparently already have supported) distro->distro upgrades, like Debian has done for years and Ubuntu has done since day 1. This is very big for [...]
Things that are not good:
put all your class notes in something X-based
see an X update from Ubuntu before you go to class
decide not to install the X update, because, hey, you wouldn’t want a broken X right before class
read some email, have breakfast
remember you’re running not just any distro, but hey, the ‘Long Term Support’ [...]