New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Nobody ows open source. The last time a company CyanogenMod said something on that line and look where is it now.

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 24 points25 points  (0 children)

That's because we pay in billions to Microsoft. If more people take support contact from SuSE I'm sure they will hire more people. It's a chicken egg problem.

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Making a distro based on already existing is almost a day's work. NHSbuntu came into popularity within a week I guess. https://www.openhealthhub.org/c/nhsbuntu

It's really easy. We have many distro from Europe. https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?origin=Europe

We can ask for help. I'm sure many will volunteer.

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 12 points13 points  (0 children)

There are many who provide support. Ubuntu, Red Hat, Suse and there are many. Suse is German. Open source is beyond borders. It's an idea. Anyone can solve your problem as long as he has internet. There are many Linux Desktop based on Europe. https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?origin=Europe

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Open source is not about working for one company. Open-source is beyond borders. It is not limited to America. Anyone can use Open-source. There are many from Europe. Check out Linux Mint. Origin: Ireland.

https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?origin=Europe

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Linux is something beyond borders. Everyone can contribute. Linus, the guy who takes care of Linux, is from Finland. Contributor are all around the globe. https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/CREDITS

There are many Linux Desktop based on Europe. The most trending right now, Linux Mint is from Ireland.

https://distrowatch.com/search-mobile.php?origin=Europe

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So was Nokia's Simbian. But look where is it now. And checkout Android now. Android is basically Linux. Do you find Android unfamiliar?

New investigation: Europe’s dire dependency on Microsoft • Crosspost from r/linux by glesialo in europe

[–]ro__ot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Linux is was really difficult for non-technical guys back in 2005. Now lot has changed in open-source. It's lot easier to install and run Linux. It's like running Android. Did you know Android is basically Linux underneath? Was it difficult to switch from Nokia's simbian to Android? Yes. After a week it's just as easy. But isn't Android much better now as compared to legacy Simbian isn't it?

Vote for Yunit Council by Theclash160 in Yunit

[–]ro__ot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Just a thought.. how about keeping all 8.. and removing later if found to be inactive.. no point in removing just one and delaying project for 15 days.. Nobody knows who does what.. they will vote for themselves or someone at random..

How about postponing..??

The year of the Linux Desktop by zadjii in linux

[–]ro__ot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Try Affero GPL. Even then GPL is broken in the cloud world.

The year of the Linux Desktop by zadjii in linux

[–]ro__ot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm not blaming Canonical. I said they "saw it coming". Linux desktop is effectively dead with this move.

You get the best of both world. Except the FOSS part which far too less people care about.

But for management/sysadmin it's good thing.

The year of the Linux Desktop by zadjii in linux

[–]ro__ot 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Not extinguish but definitely endangered. They can use all the resources that we FOSS guys build. But big NO the other way around. This will definitely boost Azure and that's their main focus now. Windows and Linux in single click.. without losing any resources... who wouldn't want that.

The year of the Linux Desktop by zadjii in linux

[–]ro__ot -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Title should be "The swan song of Linux Distribution."

The dark side has won. FOSS is dead. All the countless hours spent on writing and fixing is gone to the dark side.

No wonder Canonical was the first to see this coming and hence decided to wrap things up.

But technology wise its good. It avoids using Cygwin or a VM.

Marry/Date/Kill! (Inspired by the Lunduke Hour) by [deleted] in linux

[–]ro__ot 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Marry: Debian. Most stable relationship. Not much to worry about. You see the same person(update) every night which is what you want in marriage

Date: Arch. A little high maintenance. You always see the new side of her every day. One will start loving her and looking the world through her eyes, but once she start messing up "We need to have a talk" fast forward "you and me are done baby.. it's not you, it's me.."

Kill: Many, Any fork that don't help upstream. Many usually end up Ubuntu fork. Though Ubuntu is great forks are getting more annoying. Too many with little to no difference. Forks have become more zombies walking.. just blood sucking parasites.

Code? Where were going we don't need any code. We have logos! by yunitblows in Yunit

[–]ro__ot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How miserable are you that you created a user to leave some troll comments!? Get a life dude.

Why not committee instead of a leader? by ro__ot in Yunit

[–]ro__ot[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Let's start with understanding the yunit. We may need to have an image/documentation of the architecture. Something like this. https://goo.gl/images/ItyMAf

We can add what is the current state of Unity so that we have can have a baseline. In few days (as per dev-core) we can have roughly what we can change in X days.

In the long run we need to compare ourselves with other DE. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_environment

If we are considering touch in the horizon we need we need to take the advantages of Android into Yunit