Red Hat Launches Entertainment-Centric 'Mugshot'

Havoc Pennington writes "A small team of us have been working on a new project called Mugshot, we're calling it a "live social experience" and hoping it will bring open source to more people who aren't using it already. The project is public as of this morning. Check out the developer site for more."

100% Serious (don't get mad)...

[ImaLamer]

I went to the developer site and looked all over the Wiki, and I saw mugshot.org. I see your (potential) projects, software clients and web functions, but I can't tell exactly what the aim is. Where is the tie that binds all of this?

Anyone can respond, I'm sorry to point my question at the developers. I just want a more fleshed out proposal. The summary would have been a good place to put it, but below will be fine.

Re:Mugshot? Mugshot you said?

[el_chicano]

Instead of using his team, money and energy making Linux and Gnome better (e.g. adding a full Bluetooth front-end, fix the damned phone/pda sync app that's been in alpha for 4 years now, or add video chat on Gaim, or make Nautilus ask for the root password when you try to copy/delete files out of your ~ folder)

Why on earth should Linux or Gnome ask you for the root password to copy or delete files from a user's home directory??? Linux is inherently a multi-user system and not everybody has access to the root password on systems where they have user accounts.
 
If you want to prevent people from copying or deleting files in your home directory here are a few hints:

man chmod
man groups
man groupadd
man chgrp

Re:Mugshot? Mugshot you said?

[hp-rh]

1 - It doesn't overlap the functionality of orkut/myspace type sites much, other than "the system keeps track of your friends list" but your mail and IM do that too. Mugshot is not intended to be a "social networking" site in the myspace sense.
2 - I spend my time and energy on whatever I consider valuable... others can do the same with their time and energy. The nice thing about open source is that everyone gets to vote with their work.
3 - there's a Red Hat desktop team still working hard on desktop stuff.

Re:Mugshot? Mugshot you said?

[Eugenia Loli]

>Mugshot is not intended to be a "social networking" site in the myspace sense.

WHAT is it intended to be then??? Because your web site says absolutely nothing about it! It just doesn't spell out, or gives examples, or mockups of what it does. 99% of the people who have commented on Mugshot don't get it. That's your error, as manager of this project.

>I spend my time and energy on whatever I consider valuable...

That's like saying that Alexander the Great has decided to stop inventing other countries and will focus on scuba diving from now on. Good for you, but useless for the rest of us who expect more from the Linux desktop and have associated you with it. And possibly financially-problematic for Red Hat too, and let's not forget that RH is a public company...

>there's a Red Hat desktop team still working hard on desktop stuff.

Oh really? And then why they have done pretty much ZERO desktop advancements in Gnome in the last 1-2 years?? The changes on Gnome the past year are only *superficial*. The juicy stuff, like a full Bluetooth front-end, doesn't even exist in the drawing board yet.