Comment Re:Same As It Ever Was (Score 1) 98

by Anzhr on Saturday October 20, 2012 @05:25AM (#41713401) Attached to: Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth

Yes, I think so too. The kerfuffle is beside the point. Mark will do as he wishes, as openly and as not, as he wishes. And even if one doesn't care for it, Ubuntu still is a pretty good version of Debian unstable to roll one's own with Fluxbox or Openbox. Or to use in its Xubuntu form.

Comment Same As It Ever Was (Score 1) 98

by Anzhr on Friday October 19, 2012 @07:40PM (#41711295) Attached to: Ubuntu Isn't Becoming Less Open, Says Shuttleworth

Ubuntu is not becoming more or less open or closed. It's always been as it is, the SABDFL's distro. Thus it was brown, now it is bruise coloured; thus it was Warty, now it is cool to find Amazon suggestions in searching for files and applications. Ubuntu's main problem is that Mark says things. He should just do what he does and have another person speak for Ubuntu who won't have to "correct misperceptions" because they won't actually know what Mark is doing and so can just say nice things.

Comment Re:X12? (Score 1) 285

by Anzhr on Sunday September 16, 2012 @06:40AM (#41351109) Attached to: X11 Window System Turns 25 Years Old

Thanks. I had forgotten about Packard's involvement and appreciate the link.

Comment Re:My Daily Rage Hero (Score 1) 294

by Anzhr on Thursday August 18, 2011 @08:16AM (#37128018) Attached to: Interview With GNOME 3 Designer Jon McCann

+1

Comment Re:What's wrong with software patents? (Score 1) 63

by Anzhr on Sunday July 10, 2011 @06:04AM (#36709994) Attached to: Debian, SFLC Publish Patent Advice For Community Distros

"Patenting software is more akin to patenting, say, plot elements in a book than actual physical inventions. " Excellent analogy.

Comment Re:The problems I ran into... (Score 1) 272

by Anzhr on Sunday June 12, 2011 @08:53PM (#36421112) Attached to: Tom's Hardware Dissects Ubuntu 11.4's Interface and Performance

... were easily solved with four little words:

"Ubuntu Classic (No Effects)"

I don't need eye candy. Perhaps I should give Xubuntu a look?

Yes. Or Debian with Xfce. Or Linux Mint Xfce. GNOME Shell is worse than Unity.

Comment Re:IceWM FTW (Score 1) 797

by Anzhr on Sunday March 06, 2011 @10:32AM (#35396744) Attached to: GNOME To Lose Minimize, Maximize Buttons

Exactly so. Xfce will be seeing a flood of GNOME refugees.

Comment Re:TFA is BS; Ubuntu is pushing Linux forward nice (Score 1) 778

by Anzhr on Thursday February 24, 2011 @11:35AM (#35300356) Attached to: Ubuntu: Where Did the Love Go?

I'd buy a tablet running Ubunututu with Unity once they have a usable touch UI as I could then install the GTK apps I like. But they're farking around with the touch interface too, trying to chain together gestures.

Comment Re:analogy (Score 1) 345

by Anzhr on Saturday February 12, 2011 @10:15PM (#35189980) Attached to: Why Debian Matters More Than Ever

+1

Comment Re:yay. two more variants that nobody will want. (Score 1) 250

by Anzhr on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @01:18PM (#35139758) Attached to: Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors

Anyway, Squeeze includes Chromium so who gives a damn about Iceweasel anyway!

That's how I decided what to do about Firefox and Iceweasel.

Comment Re:Debian website UI (Score 1) 250

by Anzhr on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @12:47PM (#35139322) Attached to: Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors

Spacefun. It's actually less hideous here than in the boot and GDM splashes. Another good reason to never reboot and seldom logout.

Comment Re:I love it! (Score 1) 250

by Anzhr on Tuesday February 08, 2011 @11:45AM (#35138414) Attached to: Debian 6.0 Released In GNU/Linux, FreeBSD Flavors

Try LMDE's live CD. If everything works, install it. LibreOffice and so on will come into testing once Sid is finished with it.

Comment Re:Great (Score 1) 283

by Anzhr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:21PM (#34582784) Attached to: Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel

Thinking a little longer about it, maybe this has implications in shipping/selling truly unencumbered pre-loaded hardware/virtual platforms based on Linux? Thanks to the lack of fear that some evil megacorp will come hunt you down for including a copyrighted wifi firmware in your seemingly harmless mini-firewall gadget. Maybe this has positive implications (although i am still not 100% convinced that it's just a show of idealism that will hurt Joe user.)

I really doubt the Debian community cares anything about that.

Comment Re:Which will essentially cause nothing more than. (Score 1) 283

by Anzhr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:15PM (#34582736) Attached to: Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel

Everybody Loves Eric Raymond.

Comment Re:Completely free kernel? (Score 2) 283

by Anzhr on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:09PM (#34582684) Attached to: Debian 6.0 To Feature a Completely Free Kernel

Linux Mint Debian Edition