Planning Dapper +1, The Edgy Eft 320
Christian Jensen writes "On the ubuntu-announce mailing list, Mark Shuttleworth announced the plans for the next Ubuntu release - 'The Edgy Eft', the successor to Dapper Drake." This release is being touted as both cutting edge (edgy) and containing several comparatively "young" software additions ('Eft' being a 'youthful newt, going through its first exploration of the rocky territory just outside the stream.') like Xen, XGL/AIGLX, and others.
Alphabeticism? (Score:4, Interesting)
Are they going in alphabetical order?
At first, they had Hoary Hedgehog, but then they went Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake, and Edgy Eft. If they're going to do this, what happened to the 'C'? And why not start with an 'A'?
Re:They think they are being clever (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:They think they are being clever (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:They think they are being clever (Score:3, Interesting)
A "cool ring" is something of a subjective matter, don't you think? Personally I think that Ogg Vorbis sounds far cooler than MP3.
Same thing with shit like GIMP. Ok so the full name, GNU Image Manipulation Program isn't horrible, but calling it GIMP is fucking stupid
Yes, if they'd called it something else---why, it might have become the world's most popular open source graphics application by now! Oh, wait, hang on...
So I'm not at all suppirsed to see Ubutnu (which is odd to Western ears at any rate) doing stuff like this.
Yeah, if they hadn't called it Ubuntu---why, it could be one of the world's most popular Linux distros by now! Oh, hang on...
Re:Almost panicked there... (Score:4, Interesting)
If you wanted to use Captive in the way you're talking about, then you would need a partition to load the Linux kernel and support binaries, and you could then have all of your other files on the Captive NTFS partition. Nobody has done this because it's both not really worth it and not very efficient.
Linux can use swapfiles. Swap partitions are just a generally better way.
Re:heheh (Score:2, Interesting)
Add Beagle! (Score:4, Interesting)
Obligatory Image of an Eft (Score:3, Interesting)
Just so the Photoshopers have a starting point
-Rick
Any developer out there interested in edgy work? (Score:2, Interesting)
If a developer is interested in edgy work he has to drop a lot of the out dated circumstances taken over from the old UNIX area which is now almost dead. He has to get rid of thinking along all the current implementations and work on something which isn't as limited. There are IMHO two very important areas where hard cuts are a necessity and both are linked with the look&feel.
First any edgy work has to get rid of all the Gnome/KDE/etc desktop guidelines and replace them with a single set of guidelines as outlined in wyoGuide (http://wyoguide.sf.net/ [sf.net]). Only then will OpenSource application become competitors to the commercial counterparts.
Second any edgy desktop has to get rid of X11 and replace it with a frame buffer implementation (DirectFB) as outlined in wyoDesktop (http://wyodesktop.sf.net/ [sf.net]). Only then will the Linux desktop be possible in a sensible fashion on anything ranging from super computers to embedded devices.
I'm well aware that these two suggestions throws away the most important corner stones of the OpenSource world. I also knows that this means a huge load of work but to become successful this is simply necessary. Believe me if it isn't done and if not soon the OpenSource will fail. So I encurrage anybody, developer or not, to visit the two projects and subscribe to the users mailing list else the Ubuntu Bug #1 (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/1 [launchpad.net]) will never be fixed.
O. Wyss
Re:Add Beagle! (Score:2, Interesting)