Comments on: Thank you to the Ubuntu Technical Board http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/ rebel without a pause Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:20:21 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jethro10 http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2968 Jethro10 Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:27:10 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2968 Ah, this is not 'quite' right though is it. A bit misleading too. J Ah,
this is not ‘quite’ right though is it.
A bit misleading too.
J

]]> By: cpu - somdaj.com » Clarification on Feisty’s proprietary drivers http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2967 cpu - somdaj.com » Clarification on Feisty’s proprietary drivers Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:27:09 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2967 [...] Jonathan, I’m afraid you’ve misread the announcement that proprietary video drivers will not be switched on by default in Feisty. This was the result of a long telephone call including the entire TB and CC. During the discussion, we re-affirmed the Ubuntu policy of including proprietary drivers were these are required to enable essential hardware functionality. [...] [...] Jonathan, I’m afraid you’ve misread the announcement that proprietary video drivers will not be switched on by default in Feisty. This was the result of a long telephone call including the entire TB and CC. During the discussion, we re-affirmed the Ubuntu policy of including proprietary drivers were these are required to enable essential hardware functionality. [...]

]]> By: Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Clarification on Feisty’s proprietary drivers http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2963 Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Clarification on Feisty’s proprietary drivers Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:56:30 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2963 [...] Jonathan, I’m afraid you’ve misread the announcement that proprietary video drivers will not be switched on by default in Feisty. This was the result of a long telephone call including the entire TB and CC. During the discussion, we re-affirmed the Ubuntu policy of including proprietary drivers were these are required to enable essential hardware functionality. [...] [...] Jonathan, I’m afraid you’ve misread the announcement that proprietary video drivers will not be switched on by default in Feisty. This was the result of a long telephone call including the entire TB and CC. During the discussion, we re-affirmed the Ubuntu policy of including proprietary drivers were these are required to enable essential hardware functionality. [...]

]]> By: jonathan http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2959 jonathan Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:00:36 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2959 Yes, this does apply to 7.04, what's important though, is the reasons for reaching the decision, it will make it easier to convince th TB to keep excluding proprietary drivers by default in the future. Perhaps even more importantly, is the decisions made based on their reasoning. It will now be easier for anyone to install the proprietary drivers, if they need them. Since the earliest versions of Ubuntu, installing certain drivers have been a pain, making it easier than in Windows will certainly aid the adoption rate. I just hope that the same people who make the push for the proprietary drivers give some attention to the free drivers as well, there are open source drivers for some widely used cards that are not packaged in Ubuntu yet, such as the VIA S3 Unichrome chipset, for example. Yes, this does apply to 7.04, what’s important though, is the reasons for reaching the decision, it will make it easier to convince th TB to keep excluding proprietary drivers by default in the future. Perhaps even more importantly, is the decisions made based on their reasoning. It will now be easier for anyone to install the proprietary drivers, if they need them. Since the earliest versions of Ubuntu, installing certain drivers have been a pain, making it easier than in Windows will certainly aid the adoption rate.

I just hope that the same people who make the push for the proprietary drivers give some attention to the free drivers as well, there are open source drivers for some widely used cards that are not packaged in Ubuntu yet, such as the VIA S3 Unichrome chipset, for example.

]]> By: Adrian Moisey http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2949 Adrian Moisey Wed, 14 Feb 2007 05:14:17 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2949 After reading the announcement it looks like this decision is only for 7.04 After reading the announcement it looks like this decision is only for 7.04

]]> By: aguafuertes http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2931 aguafuertes Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:26:18 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2931 That is great news! Thanks for your effort, it is good to see that the exchange between developers/decision makers and (core) community members still works. That is great news! Thanks for your effort, it is good to see that the exchange between developers/decision makers and (core) community members still works.

]]> By: Matthew East http://jonathancarter.org/2007/02/13/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board/comment-page-1/#comment-2929 Matthew East Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:16:42 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/a-big-thank-you-to-the-ubuntu-technical-board#comment-2929 Careful! My reading of the decision (and what I've heard from general irc chat) is that the main justification is based on compiz not being mature enough; that doesn't mean that the specification won't be implemented at a later date if that situation improves. Careful! My reading of the decision (and what I’ve heard from general irc chat) is that the main justification is based on compiz not being mature enough; that doesn’t mean that the specification won’t be implemented at a later date if that situation improves.

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