Canonical announces Ubuntu for the ARM platform

The thing I have enjoyed most about LWN as a reader is that the posters and their comments have historically been calm and informative, even when disagreeing. Over the past few months that has steadily been eroding. Whether it's because of Fedora/Ubuntu animosity or not, there has been a rise in people being insulting with each other. LWN commenting has descended into the realm of other forums where there are tribes and flame wars about the same things over and over.

People from outside your organisation will not understand it as well. We are intelligent people here, and should face the reality that two intelligent people can look at the same information and come to different, but reasonable, conclusions. There is no need for all that stupid sniping and the little digs that imply people are doing misinformation or trolling, even if you think they might be. Saying so is ignored (at best), or escalates things in a way of no benefit to anyone.