Perhaps GNOME has lost its way trying to be everything to everyone. Perhaps it’s just having a mid-life crisis. TheVarGuy pegs it right. GNOME should stick to what it does best if it is to remain relevant, provide a great GUI for desktop/notebook PCs. There’s no need to derail the users who have come to know and love a simple windowed user-interface. There’s nothing wrong with providing a GUI for other devices but why scuttle something that works? Fork or start a new GUI, GNOME. Don’t kill what works.
“GNOME Shell wants to be an interface for smartphones, tablets and other fancy devices on which Linux currently rarely runs, and that endeavor — despite the best efforts of GNOME designers — makes it less useful as an interface for the PCs on which most people are actually running Linux today. You can’t be everything at once, no matter how much you might like to be — or how much proprietary competitors, like Windows, think they can be as well.”
A small city in Hungary is shifting most of its clients and servers to GNU/Linux and saving a bundle. They still need a few copies of that other OS because people keep sending them old file formats.
“The main problem we have is with the documents we receive from the national government, companies and other institutions. They send us Microsoft Word and Excel files containing special macros, causing compatibility problems with our open source office software. So in one to two per cent of cases we have to open the documents using a Microsoft Office program.”
who may have got it from the Ancients… and they probably rounded the corners to keep them from breaking.
“A recent court filing by Samsung reveals that in 2006 Apple industrial designer Shin Nishibori was directed to design an iPhone prototype inspired by Sony’s aesthetics after Tony Fadell internally circulated an interview with a designer from the company. An assortment of renders reveal his design, complete with a Sony logo — save for one where the logo has been modified to read "Jony," presumably in honor of Apple’s Jony Ive.”
However you think of statistics, these are some from this site, displayed at the lower right corner of the starting page:
2012-07-29
Facts from these data that please me are
that other OS has a proper share and no more,
FireFox, a FLOSS web-browser rules, even though I am partial to Chrome,
there are a lot of comments per post, thanks to readers, and
Internet Exploder has a tiny share, probably still more than a tool of anti-competition deserves.
Of course it would please me more if thousands of visitors would light on the site, see the light and find Debian GNU/Linux was a better way to do IT, but it’s a start. In any event, every few months we get a new high in page-views. This month should be the first or second highest number of page-views ever. It helps that it’s a month with 31 days in spite of so much summer-fun happening.
Another incident involving a person attempting to recycle a used barrel results in death… How many times do we have to read such things before everyone knows to leave that to experts or at least combine some facts into reasonable actions?
an “empty” barrel may contain a few drops of some flammable liquid and a lot of air,
most liquids evaporate and come into equilibrium with a vapour in the space above the liquid,
because the bung of the barrel is a restriction, such fumes may not dissipate even after years,
the concentration of fumes in air may coincide with concentration required to combust,
any welding, cutting or illumination operation may ignite the fumes causing an explosion of a large volume of a flammable mixture, and
a barrel being orders of magnitude larger than a balloon may not contain an explosion within, and
the human body is frail being subject to death by blood loss, cessation of circulation by impact, or damage to the central nervous system to say nothing of other serious injuries resulting from burns, cuts and penetrating wounds.
Still, it keeps happening. People think of the resource a discarded barrel provides but neglect obvious dangers resulting from former contents and welding and cutting operations. Sometimes even accumulation of welding gasses in a barrel can be fatal if a cutting torch sneezes.
The solution is simple. Fill the damned thing with inert gasses, water, sand, etc. before cutting into it. What’s a life worth compared to the few minutes of time it takes to do any of these things?
My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.
My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.
I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.
and they probably rounded the corners to keep them from breaking.
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