[ale] NanoPC

[Edward Holcroft]

lol ... some professionals view ALL Linux distros as hobby market only.

ed


On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> general orneriness and curmudgeonly character :-)
>
> Some of us "professionals" view certain distros as "hobby market only".
> Ubuntu (even LTS) fits that for me. Too much stuff that was fixed over a
> decade ago in other "professional class distros" is still wonky in Ubuntu.
>
> And then there's the funky, not so cool, not really in the spirit of
> GNU/Linux/OpenSource shenanigans like the data pump to upstream sources of
> search data, the "let's just fork everything and do our way so we don't
> have to play well with others" mentality and some other stuff that has
> rubbed me personally the wrong way over time with Ubuntu leadership.
>
> So, yeah. I'm a distro curmudgeon. I've got 15+ years experience with "The
> RedHat Way" and while it's got it's share of warts, there's a core bunch of
> stuff that just always works on an install and they keep spending money
> buying closed source stuff and open sourcing it, pushing it to Fedora
> upstream and funding rewrites to get rid of the last bits of code that
> can't be open sourced due to license issues. If Debian had any money, they
> would do that as well, I suspect.
>
> No real flame intended from me. Just poking a bit of fun.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Edward Holcroft <eholcroft at mkainc.com>wrote:
>
>> On what basis do you deem it not Linux?
>>
>> Edward Holcroft | Madsen Kneppers & Associates Inc.
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>> On Mar 5, 2014 5:45 PM, "James Taylor" <James.Taylor at eastcobbgroup.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I've never considered Ubuntu to be linux....
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> James Taylor
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>>>
>>>
>>> >>> Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> 3/5/2014 4:14 PM >>>
>>> It supports Android/Ubuntu/Linux ???? I thought Ubuntu was Linux???? Did
>>> I
>>> miss something in the news about Ubuntu?????
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 7:36 AM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > http://nanopc.org/NanoPC-T1_Feature.html
>>> >
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