[Ubuntu-PH] Fwd: Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes

[Allan Registos]

Firefox:
I think it is still more safer/useful to use Firefox than IE. The slow 
startup is irrelevant, the real benefit is on the security and features 
offered.

Ubuntu:
My wishes:
I wish they could develop a way to make the default fonts prettier. 
Windows XP default fonts still stands supreme.
I wish the openoffice.org office suite will run faster or at least 
comparable to Microsoft Office 2000/2003.
I wish they could develop another UI for managing printers such as 
automatically detecting the level of inks found on most printers. (This 
is now available for Linux but obscure and proprietary)

Only my wishes...

Good Day...




"Yosif ali" Roque Morales wrote:
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> From: *Yosif ali Roque Morales* <queroph at gmail.com 
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> Date: Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 7:42 PM
> Subject: Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox 
> prove yes
> To: cpu at googlegroups.com <mailto:cpu at googlegroups.com>
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> March 2nd, 2009
> Are open source developers too dominant? Ubuntu, Firefox prove yes
>
> Posted by Andrew Nusca @ 9:59 am
>
> Categories: Browsers, Linux, Operating Systems
>
>
> ZDNet readers are excited about Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope. And who
> wouldn’t be? With each incarnation, the Linux-based operating system
> steps further from the shadow of its geekiness.
>
> But as more is revealed of “Jaunty Jackalope,” officially the upcoming
> Ubuntu 9.04 release, experts seem to be less and less impressed.
>
> Take ZDNet Hardware 2.0 blogger Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, who expresses
> his disappointment in the latest alpha 5 release of the Linux distro
> and its pending successor:
>
> There was very little to get excited about (OpenOffice.org 3.0 …
> woohoo … yawn). In fact, even the next release (9.10, or Karmic Koala)
> which is over six months away, has nothing that really gets my blood
> moving. Sure, there’s dedicated netbook support, but I don’t see
> myself getting all that enthusiastic about that.
>
> Has Ubuntu development plateaued? Is the best that we can expect
> the from now on evolutionary changes rather as opposed to
> revolutionary ones?
>
> Furthermore, PC World’s Keir Thomas says the most successful open
> source desktop projects — Mozilla Firefox and Ubuntu — have settled
> into complacency. First, Firefox:
>
> Do you remember why we all switched to Firefox back in 2003? One
> phrase popped-up constantly: “It’s small and light, yet has all the
> features I need.” [...] But the Firefox people seem to have forgotten
> this. Nowadays Firefox takes at least five seconds to start on any of
> my computers. [...] Most people’s favorite Firefox features aren’t
> part of Firefox at all, and are provided by plugins.
>
> The problem is that the Firefox developers have lots touch with
> what made Firefox so great. If Microsoft pulled itself together and
> introduced, say, an ultra-light browser that had a plug-in structure
> and guaranteed security, then I suspect many Windows users would
> switch at the drop of a hat (Google Chrome developers: take note).
>
> Second, Ubuntu:
>
> The most exciting thing is OpenOffice.org 3.0 and, well, that’s
> not actually very exciting. It’s the same with the recently-announced
> 9.10 release. This will bring a focus on netbooks, we’re told, which
> is very wise. But it appears that, apart from a snazzy graphical boot,
> the desktop experience will be left to stagnate once again. As with
> most Ubuntu releases, there will probably be furious tweaking under
> the hood, or in the backroom support services, but this means nothing
> if it isn’t visible, and if it doesn’t improve the end-user
> experience.
>
> Sobering words, indeed.
>
> In the case of Firefox, I am completely in accord. What was once a
> fast-and-light browser is no longer (and I don’t even run more than a
> couple of plugins!), and I’ve since given Google Chrome center stage
> on my desktop after a lengthy trial period, despite its own
> shortcomings.
>
> As for Ubuntu, well, that’s your call, readers.
>
> Are open source developers too dominant? It both of these cases, it
> seems each program’s developers were mindful of crossing their “T”s
> and dotting their “I”s but neglectful of the overall end-user
> experience. In both these cases, the result is an alternative to
> current offerings that isn’t as compelling as its predecessor was,
> then.
>
> Or, as Adrian put it, is the OS simply “slowly becoming irrelevant” in
> an application-focused world?
>
> What do you think?
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> Yosif Roque Santos Morales
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> -- 
> Yosif Roque Santos Morales
> ====================
> School Administrator
> Asian Academy of Business and Computers
> Professor, Sociology, Strategic Studies and Islamology
> Ubuntulinux user
> Linux machine # 365046.
> http://lamundofloss.blogspot.com/
> http://mafatihulhikmah.blogspot.com/
> http://strategicresearchinstitute.blogspot.com/
> Mobile number +639275642816