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Once upon a time the claim of “meritocracy” trumped everything, and too bad for anyone who couldn’t take the heat or develop magnificent skills on their own. It’s a fascinating report that is worth reading to see how far Linux and FOSS have come in terms of community and community values. The study asked the question why such a difference? Answer: Hostile environment.

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(And old-timers, and random passers-by.) The famous 2006 FLOSSPOLs study (see D16 – Gender: Integrated Report of Findings) claimed that 98.5% of FOSS contributors were men, while the proprietary software world had 28% participation by women.

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It was rough-and-tumble, allegedly ruled by meritocracy with the best code rising to the top, but in reality sizable swaths of it were personality-driven, cliquish, and hostile to newcomers. These were radical concepts in the Linux world, which was rather different back then. Ubuntu is a word from the Nguni language with a complex meaning that doesn’t translate well into English: we are all connected, correct behavior that flows from our connectedness, humanity to others, I am what I am because of who we all are. Mark Shuttleworth founded Canonical and Ubuntu with $10 million of his own money. Take a look at the Distribution Timeline for Debian its largest descendants, Knoppix and Ubuntu, have sizable family trees of their own. Debian supports several times more packages than any other distribution, and its family tree is by far the largest. Ubuntu is based on Debian Linux, which is the #1 Linux distribution in size and influence. Desktop Ubuntu has been front and center from the beginning. RHEL and SUSE soft-pedal their desktop editions. One of the primary differentiators between Ubuntu, RHEL, and SUSE is Ubuntu unashamedly and boldly promotes their desktop version. In its short life Ubuntu has generated considerable controversy, supporters, detractors, excitement, and given the Linux world a much-needed injection of energy. Its first release was in 2004 the other two enterprise Linux distributions in this series, SUSE and Red Hat, were born in 19. guess this is all about just 'doing business' for Canonical anyway.Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux is the newcomer in the enterprise Linux space.

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but I'm one of those guys who always feels a bit threatened by the idea of 'storing' your 'data' in someone else 'property' even after considering all those 'benefits' that they claim you get.Īnyway, it is a good thing to see that free CDs from Ubuntu are still available (even with limited 'versions'), but not quite sure the percentage of money Canonical receives from the average users, but using that money to fund something that is not directly beneficial for most of the 'average users' seems a bit disrespectful.

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I have said this before and will say it again, still, average PC users do not benefit hugely from these type of technologies but as the time goes on, in the near future of course this would seriously fasten computer based processing.

Interestingly though, larger portion of the money which was used for the 'ShipIt' program will be used to promote Ubuntu Cloud network. So, no, the 'project' isn't quite lost or dead. then you can apply directly using a form and if chosen by Canonical, your 'community' or LoCo will receive free CDs from Ubuntu!. We will also continue to make the packs available through the store which are sold more or less at cost price (plus shipping) Well, there are these local Ubuntu communities (LoCos) that operates within countries and Canonical says they'll be 'helping' them to distribute Ubuntu CD within there domains.

Sadly, yesterday they announced that the free CD shipping program known as the 'ShipIt' is no longer active and there won't be any available starting with the Ubuntu 11.04. Then after few years Canonical limited the shipping of CDs and brought few restrictions (makes sense), still they continued 'shipping'. One of my cousins had ordered like 12 or 14 pack of CDs (if I remember correctly) and for his 'surprise', he actually received them!. This was the strength of not Ubuntu (at that time nor these days either) but of Canonical (owned by the millionaire Mark Shuttleworth).Īt first, they were like crazy to ship CDs. 5-6 years ago because of a friend who 'had seen' a GNU Linux distribution that ships free CDs all around the world! called Ubuntu.