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Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations
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kdawson
on Sat Apr 26, 2008 02:00 PM
from the singing-the-unsung dept.
from the singing-the-unsung dept.
chromatic writes "Google and O'Reilly have published the Call For Open Source Awards 2008 Nominations. These awards, given at OSCON 2008, recognize individual contributors who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, creativity, and collaboration in the development of open source software. The nomination process is open to the entire open source community, and nominations close on May 15. Here's your chance to sing the praises of previously unsung hackers."
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The corporate overlords at SourceForge asked me to name a Slashdot category for their upcoming
Community Choice Awards and to let you guys select the winner. I have named my category "Most Likely to be Shut Down by a Government Agency." We're going to run this like we do an Ask Slashdot call for questions — post your nominations into the comments here. Use moderation to send up good ideas. In the upcoming days we'll post another story where you can vote on the actual winner. Nominations need to include the project name, a link to some sort of official website, and a paragraph of why you think they deserve to win. The project that wins will gain fame, notoriety, and maybe a cease and desist order that they could print out and frame if they had that kind of time.
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Requested Category (Score:5, Funny)
Balmer and Gates (Score:5, Interesting)
No discussion... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:No discussion... (Score:5, Insightful)
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It didn't bring me to linux, but it did kill my dual booting days.
Mark Shuttleworth (Score:4, Insightful)
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firefox & compiz
mark, may have made a great distro that got alot of limelight, but the fast is that he just happens to have jumped on bo
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Re:Mark Shuttleworth (Score:5, Interesting)
Out of the box there were no codecs and all that, which I wasn't shocked by, but I was routinely assaulted on the forums and chat room for even asking about them. How dare you install non-free software! Convert your 20 gig library of mp3's to ogg!
She had an ATI Card in her laptop, and I wanted to show her compiz. There isn't a free driver that provides 3D acceleration for her card. The instructions I found via Google said to use a restricted modules manager that didn't exist. I found later you can install it seperately, but that module doesn't ship with the distro. Again, I was routinely assaulted for even asking how to install the ATI driver. The traditional install methods work on every other distro, but fail on *buntu. I got it working after pulling out much hair.
Next, several software programs that shipped by default with the distro were just broken. Kicker and Konqui crashed all the time. I submitted bug reports and was informed I either didn't know how to use the apps (clearly, I don't know how to use kicker, though I have zero issues with in on Gentoo) or that my problem was using a x86_64 build which weren't "officially" supported, despite the fact that they are official releases, and you can get LTS support for x86_64 releases. I wonder what Mark would say about his mods saying x86_64 isn't official.
To boot, we never got wireless working on her laptop, not once. I wanted to install madwifi, and try a different kernel. I downloaded the mm source, but there were no build tools. I was searching for the right packages, and again was assualted for asking. "You should never attempt to compile anything! That is only for devs! Never touch the kernel! What are you thinking!" There was no nice meta-package I found that pulled in a complete toolchain. But I got all the packages I needed eventually. But when I booted my -mm kernel, it wouldn't load synaptics, ati driver, etc. because I lacked a restricted modules package specific for my kernel uname. I googled and asked repeatedly, and no one would help with how to produce this package myself.
I installed Suse, and wireless worked out of the box. I tried a few distros, and my wife eventually settled on Sabayon, where everything worked out of the box.
However, not only did Kubuntu have horrible packages that were broken, it had by far the worse default KDE desktop I saw. It also lacked the standard features that Mark was currently pimping for the Ubuntu release, because they are quite slow trying to work those features in Kubuntu.
Fedora, Suse and all the other big boys have custom theming for both their Gnome and KDE desktops. Suse has been providing some great patches, backporting stuff from KDE 4.1 trunk, etc.
Ubuntu says, this is what you're getting. Don't think about installing anything non-free, don't mess with packages, don't touch the kernel, live with the default, and like it!
I actually had a mod suggest to me that I should divorce my wife because she bought a laptop that wasn't 100% supported by free drivers. That's a great community.
However, if you'd like I can really go into some lengthy rants about 1,000 things wrong with Ubuntu.
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Apart from trying kde4 when it was experimental ive never come across a broken package
Installing mp3 support was simply sudo apt-get install kubuntu-restricted-something, which google ans
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Almost everything in my post is easily verifiable.
For the record, I don't take kindly to being called a liar by someone who is not only full of shit themselves, but also unwilling to post under their own name.
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I said, "well, I try to buy hardware with Linux in mind, but my wife bought this laptop before she decided to switch to Lin
Nominations (Score:4, Interesting)
Best Project Leader - Aaron Sergio (KDE 4)
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Did it load? Was it horribly broken?
Most of the core stuff was there and working fairly well for such a large refactoring. Obviou
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What might be more fun (Score:5, Funny)
I'm too polite to nominate anyone though.
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Apple may have gotten more popular because of Vista, but I've not seen any figures to suggest OSS is ma
Not reading your messages? (Score:3, Interesting)
If you have read your messages I know you've seen these figures:
Windows sinks 24% [bloomberg.com]
Keep twisting those numbers (Score:2)
Mac sales are up true, in the US mainly [nytimes.com] and this has slightly dented Vista sales.
Now, i'm not going to be disin
nonsense (Score:2, Informative)
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