[PLUG] Natty is here

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/The best thing about Linux. If you don't like one flavor, there are 50 
others. Whereas with Windows, the user is stuck with whatever Steven 
Ballmer deems they should have. Linux has about a dozen desktops, Unity, 
Gnome Shell, KDE, lxde, xfce and more, two package management systems, 
several display managers and countless variations and themes for all. 
Whatever one's opinion of Ubuntu Natty, one need never resort to Redmond 
to find a useful alternative. /



On 05/02/2011 09:14 PM, Mike Connors wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 9:12 PM, Mike Connors<mconnors1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> If there's any truth to what's in this article than Unity and Linux
>> consumer-oriented desktop is the direction Shuttleworth plans to take
>> Ubuntu.
>>
>> =>  Shuttleworth opened by saying that the main point of Ubuntu 11.04
>> with Unity was “to bring the joys and freedoms and innovation and
>> performance and security that have always been part of the Linux
>> =>  platform, to a consumer audience.”
>>
>> It also says that Ubuntu did do R&D with real users, they borrowed
>> what worked from MS Win and Mac OS and then added "bold innovative"
>> evolutionary developments of their own.
>>
>> =>  How did Canonical do it? Shuttleworth explained that it was a
>> combination of user design testing with professional design work. “We
>> committed to test and iterate Unity’s design with real users, and
>> =>evolve it based on those findings.
>> =>  Humble, because we have borrowed consciously from the work of other
>> successful platforms, like Windows and Mac OS. We borrowed what worked
>> best, but then we took advantage of the fact that we =>  are
>> unconstrained by legacy and can innovate faster than they can, and
>> took some bold leaps forward.
>>
>> Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
>>
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