Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World)

Posted Nov 9, 2014 23:14 UTC (Sun) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051)
In reply to: Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World) by rodgerd
Parent article: Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World)

Are you talking about Gentoo? The aspect of Gentoo I like is that complex stuff just works, and is well managed. I stay out of the 'guts' much more often than I do with RedHat and descendants in common use cases. (I consider 'guts' to include things like YUM plugins (yum-priorities, etc.), required community repositories (hmm... which one is good *today*?), for example.)

To you other well-made point, yeah, screw tinkerers. They suck, and are sooooo unprofessional. Nothing good comes from tinkering. ;)

You lost me on how the Windows 7/Firefox/Python is relevant here? There's lots of other non-technical business decisions inside Microsoft that underpin the idea of different 'versions' of Windows and critical core libraries.

Cheers.

Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World)

Posted Nov 10, 2014 0:34 UTC (Mon) by rodgerd (guest, #58896) [Link] (3 responses)

And this whole comment - wilful ignorance, snottiness and all - is precisely why Linux is and will likely be forever irrelevant outside of embedded uses.

Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World)

Posted Nov 10, 2014 21:58 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

So why is it that the majority of my support grief comes from one of two sources (usually both together :-) namely

1) Windows
2) Users who ring for support, and half way through telling them what to do the do the exact opposite!

Cheers,
Wol

Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World)

Posted Nov 11, 2014 16:45 UTC (Tue) by justcs (guest, #92304) [Link] (1 responses)

Linux runs on a overwhelming majority of Supercomputers as well as desktops in the ISS.

Ubuntu, ownCloud, and a hidden dark side of Linux software repositories (PC World)

Posted Nov 11, 2014 20:45 UTC (Tue) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

I think the conversion on the ISS was a more recent thing (though there is really only 1 of it), but IIRC, there were issues moving to Windows 7 (I'm pretty sure Vista was skipped) related to licensing. Here's a 2013 article that mentions stability concerns, so maybe licensing wasn't everything:

[1]http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155392-international-s...