It is sad that they didn't go for the Ubuntu phone - I was one of the (many) people who contributed to the kickstarter.
Having raised more than 10M usd and then not releasing it... WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT.

Maybe Marc is burning through his cash too quickly. Who knows.

But I still think he helped OpenSource and Free Software a lot, whatever direction it turns out to go into.
It looks like there will not be an Ubuntu phone ready for the Xmas shopping season this year, and that's sad, very sad!
Even Apple launched a new phone without having any real new features...

I'm sure you didn't upgrade Fedora 12 to 19 on the command line.
It isn't supported and it doesn't work.

It's a shame.
Ah and did you try this: rpm -qa | grep -i v fc19
how many old version shit is still hanging around?

We prefer Ubuntu over Fedora out of stability and software choices. Of course Ubuntu has its issues too. But you don't get that much of a 'leaking ship' feeling...

Google on 'Cinnamon just crashed'...

I understand your point.
I believe - just like Linus Torvalds - that there is something terrible wrong with the UI designers in Linux.
The kernel has learned from the very beginning that it needs to be stable to userspace, yet the UI designers try to make users change their behaviour with every major release of their crap.
Yesterday I heared that GNOME wants to drop the middle-mouse paste.
Who the fuck they think they are for messing with our user experience. It's just rude.

And that's also one of the major points of critique.
An operating system experience designer should not have to choose between 'dumb' and 'power user'.
Both need to be possible at the same time. But uninformed UI designers try to copy MacOS where they don't even know about the power user options within the Finder. They themselves think it's dumb. But in reality they are the only dumb ones.

In the FOSS context, we can however stick with Enlightenment or with any other window manager, and in the current situation small and light window managers indeed remain wildly competitive with dumb but bloated Unity or Gnome or KDE desktops which lack uniformity and power user options.

But I'm getting off topic; it's more of a general UI experience topic than a pure Ubuntu disaster.
I like the fact that Ubuntu tries with unity to do something new.
BUT it is not that more than a good-effort try. It doesn't work that great. It improved a bit with 13.10, I believe.

As I said, only time will tell if Ubuntu scared away too much power users.

"I've been using Fedora for a few months now "; I am happy for you. Just ignore my post and enjoy the joys of being a newbee on a new distro. It's fun to learn the differences between the different linux distro's!
Enjoy...

Yes, but it is slow.
And if you ever tried upgrading Fedora from the command line, you know what for a mess it is.
I'm certain it isn't used successfully by YOU on more than a few servers if you say that...
We support thousands of systems, and know what the difference is :)

It's workable for most situations, but it's crappy technology compared to .deb/apt-get

Being popular as a distribution does not mean they are evil. And the comparison with Windows is just plain _stupid_
Microsoft promotes software patenting.
Microsoft embraces and extends open standards to break them - allows importing of data but only crappy exporting.

Now, I do agree that Ubuntu made some less popular decisions to make money.
While I don't like it either, they are easily apt-get removed.

Ubuntu also does their software development in OpenSource fashion.

I think some of the ubuntu-bashing is unjustified and unconstructive.

Ubuntu has a certain amount of critical mass which is very interesting and which leads to a better quality experience than for example with Fedora.
While I don't agree with all the 'dumbing down', it still allows power user to dive as deep as they want into the system and into the code. And I like the fact that it's not required for novice users.

It's hard to predict. But Mint, which builds on ubuntu, has some major flaws with Mint 15. We see Ubuntu still as the distribution of choice for developer workstations. Especially in the embedded linux space. Ubuntu in the server still has the advantage of having a recent kernel and being build on .deb packages instead of the horrible slow and unstable, unupgradeable yum/RPM combination.

If Ubuntu declines, then the question is to what?
We see a lot of ubuntu users going to arch linux for example, but these are the people who started out ubuntu just a few years ago.
Distribution diversity is a good thing.
But we still wouldn't recommend newcomers anything else.

Grtz,
Jasper Internet

Lifting fingerprints of glasses is easy. Maybe even directly of the glass of the phone itself. Yet a glass in a bar might be even better... So now they are going to steal BOTH the phone AND the drink?

Instead of wasting time with 'converting' to new tech, I would prefer that they updated their course material and changed their method so it's more applicable in real life.
Real life in which everybody has internet access, almost always.
Sure, it's important that certain things are learned by heart, very sure.
But certain things simply are not.

Insight questions, those are the important ones.

But hey, who am I kidding, the school system will probably never change. Until our robot overlords do ;)

Point taken... Zothecula's summary is however misleading, and it still will remain to be seen if this thing will be able to survive the lunar night ;)

Damn, there goes my carefully generated karma...

Another bright idea to put solar panels in the 'permanently shadowed craters'? Way to go! Physics 101!

I hope the GPLv4 will finally reveal that the G isn't recursive at all!

The G stands for Good Public License, and it will prohibit use of our software in weapons, weapon installations and military applications.

Go Richard Stallman, make me proud!

I don't get it... if a naked breast is visible, Google blocks it. But if millions of people find it 'offensive', then they don't?

Google gets stuck in a 'do no evil'-mantra, but don't get that is understood differently by different people/cultures.

I think religion is stupid, but ignoring hundreds of million of people is even more so...

There are some simple things that might improve things a lot! But simple is not necessarily simple. HOWEVER! Just look at the 3 most used applications by us; the power users, and veterans: Terminal, Firefox and LibreOffice. Look at the shortcuts of COPY, PASTE. Yes. Copy/paste. In these main 3 applications they are different. For over a few decades it's like that! WTF The Linux Standard Base, can start out with a simple thing like this. It would be nice if they could pull it off. Start out small and humble, and improve things. That's what can make things better. But neither Firefox nor LibreOffice nor terminal emulators will change this without proper motivation. Yet it isn't difficult to realize the necessity to get these thing right...