Notices tagged with ubuntu, page 22
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Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Friday, 04-Feb-2011 21:21:21 EST
Joshua Judson Rosen
@vinc17, people like, e.g. #Ubuntu because they're `more up-to-date', but their packages go entire cycles without even security updates.... -
X11R5 (x11r5)'s status on Friday, 07-Jan-2011 22:58:06 EST
X11R5
@rozzin i have tried to install on #ubuntu but thankfully with a knife, i wrestled the knife of then and #killed them -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Aug-2010 17:46:01 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
Maybe I should replace my dead iPod with... a Netwalker PC-T1 tablet? Runs !Ubuntu--I wonder whether they bundle any proprietary drivers.... -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Aug-2010 09:10:37 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@zoopster: So that I'm not just whinging or `being tribal', here's a solution: !Ubuntu should base universe on !Debian *stable* (or frozen). -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jul-2010 23:11:07 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@chuck: Thing is, there are easy ways @ubuntudesigners could do this without making !Ubuntu unusable for up to 1/10 people. Here's hoping. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Tuesday, 27-Jul-2010 22:19:33 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@topdownjimmy: The ~10% of !ubuntu users who are colour-blind are going to love this, I'm sure.... -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jul-2010 11:00:36 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@zoopster, what are you talking about? Yes, !Debian *does* support them--take the cacti update from 3 weeks ago as an example. !Ubuntu? -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jul-2010 10:17:40 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@zoopster: If !Ubuntu can't support `universe' themselves, I'd suggest that they should just let !Debian do it rather than precluding them. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jul-2010 10:10:34 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@zoopster: Of course, even when things do work in !Ubuntu's `universe', you can't expect to get security updates like you can in !Debian. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jul-2010 10:04:59 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@zoopster, because they've already filed with !ubuntu--and some literally sit there for *years* without being addressed; and it's *policy*. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Thursday, 08-Jul-2010 09:40:07 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
@dilbertdave: A lot of stuff in !Ubuntu's `universe' section is broken, as they don't support it but do preclude !Debian's upstream support. -
Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin)'s status on Wednesday, 19-May-2010 01:42:46 EDT
Joshua Judson Rosen
The bigger this list becomes, the more wary I become of using !Ubuntu: http://ur1.ca/01ztw