The news of the moment: Canonical presented in the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) from Las Vegas his brand new version of Ubuntu for televisions, anticipating what perhaps Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), I had in mind.
On the one hand, it seems like something really great. Ubuntu is a distribution of GNU / Linux that at the rate it is going, and with such ambitious plans, we will soon be able to find in any type of device (phones, tablets, cars, planes, etc.) but that's exactly what worries me. Can they handle everything?
I just get the following account: If sometimes due to lack of time in the development cycle, they have released several versions loaded with bugs, how will they manage to maintain so many projects at the same time? I accept it, I am not an expert in technology or new trends, and maybe someone in a comment shows me that I am wrong, but I think they are covering too much.
Still Ubuntu it does not dominate the computer market and already wants to dominate the television market. A change in strategy? And where does the existing competition stay? I don't think Canonical prestige precedes it to try to convince TV manufacturers to use their OS, which, if we see the videos that are spread around the internet, is nothing more than Unity on a bigger screen.
In addition, it does not add anything new. Already Linux it's been on TV for a long time (ask Samsung and Sony) and on many other devices. But my intention is not to be a bird of ill omen. From the bottom I wish you the best of luck with this project, in the end, if you succeed, it will be one more battle won by the Open Source. I just hope, they have enough strength to continue improving their version for the PC, which until now, many users have stopped enchanting.
There is a saying that says "he who covers a lot does little squeeze", I sincerely hope that this is not the case.
Canonical will not be a saint of my devotion, but that is not why I am going to stop recognizing its greatest virtue: trying to bring Linux closer to the home user like no other distro, because with protects like this, it tries to stand up to the other masters of the market, Apple, Google and Microsoft, which is not little.
Hopefully and it will give good results, because unlike many users, I think that having a flagship distribution that develops these initiatives benefits the entire ecosystem, or is it that they did not start a lot, I was involved, in this world thanks to Ubuntu? Well that, such facts open new paths for the expansion and recognition of Linux beyond the usual clichés.
A greeting.
Well that's what I said at the end, I hope you are lucky, because in the end the biggest beneficiary will be GNU / Linux
Exactly, friend, that is the attitude that must be taken in the face of Canonical's work with this and other projects; fanboys of one side and another out.
By the way elav, by chance you will not know how to modify the user agent in qupZilla ... it is that seeing in my comments that it registers Safari is not that I like it very much ... xD
Have you ever wondered if this fails and is a failure ... do you think the criticism will stop only on Canonical and Ubuntu?
No, this will affect all Linux users, as the criticisms I do not think will make a difference between us and Ubuntu.
Gaara, if you look at what I said in my first comment, I am in favor of having a reference distro or a visible head, so I am aware of what that implies, that is, that both the successes and failures of this one , will not be restricted solely to the product in question. It is part of the market game, the consequences of these moves are multiple, and in this case they involve us all, even more so when it is only Canonical that within the entire Linux ecosystem confronts the other market monopolies with greater vehemence , with its strengths and weaknesses, of course.
I do not like the course that Ubuntu has taken for a long time, but if we must recognize a huge effort to spread Linux, and this is one more step, and a way to earn money with free software. Let's not forget that Canonical is a company, not an NGO.
If it fails, it will not be another of many projects of all kinds that do not work, but it will have spread Linux and I think that is good.
My fear is that it will be an extreme failure. Only then can it harm linuxeros, although here it says:
"Let them talk about me, even if it's good"
Well, I am amazed and pleased with the idea of Ubuntu entering another segment of the market, in my personal experience, Ubuntu was the first distro that took me "seriously", so to speak, my partner Elav knows it first hand, And I therefore believe that this incursion can pave the way for many others who, like me, did not use Linux assiduously.
Honor that you do us with your visit here my partner. Look at you, I thought that with the knowledge about technology you have, you would give me a talk about the other "professional" variants that exist in this sector. And I find that you support this Canonical initiative… o.0
Hahaha thanks for passing you my brother
Mmmmm I don't really know how much Gaara, apart from some teasing and botching towards us users.
In my view, if Cannonical and the world of Free Software do well, if they do well, the failure will fall mainly on Canonnical and Ubuntu, because in what way could this negatively affect the development of the Kernel, or the flow of resources to maintain distributions like Mint, Arch or Debian.
Hopefully they will do well because in this way the use of linux and by extension the SF is "legitimized" in the eyes of the common and wild and myths that still exist are beginning to be demolished. There is much more to gain than to lose.
Well, honestly when I read the title of this post I said to myself, this is the work of Courage (by the way I find it strange that it has not appeared here)
"Ubuntu still does not dominate the computer market" being optimistic this may happen in the distant future.
And I don't think the latest Ubuntu distros are loaded with bugs (being a Ubuntu 11.10 user), the notable exodus of Ubuntu users has a name and is called Unity and it is due to lack of habit because it is functional and simple and it is much faster and refined than Gnome 3.
I hope it goes well for them as you said and that it gives the world a better image of GNU / Linux.
Right now watching that image, even the cable TV menu, it looks prettier ...
Because I was in high school trying to get out of emo mode.
It cannot be my work because I never write or have written or will write anything about Ubuntu and based on it. The only time was this, the blog posers' favorite distro: http://theunixdynasty.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/liberadas-2-distros-para-descerebrados-integrales/ HAHAHA
Well, my unity does not convince me on a netbook, but it looks good on a smart tv.
The Canonical thing stands out to me, although at CES 2012 some companies, such as sony and samsung, already present devices with android (similar to usbs and kinects) to convert HDTVs into smart tvs. If android is generalized in this segment, the truth is that it is difficult for ubuntu. As a matter of course I hope I'm wrong.
That is another side of La Moneda: Android .. But nothing, let's wait and see what happens.
I prefer the Canonical-Ubuntu duet to Google-Android. Google is a money monster, cash cow, and on the path that Android takes, there is little left as legitimate Free Software. Moreover, I do not even think that the common user relates the words Android and GNU / Linux
To me, who uses mate in Mint12, the Unity lens seems like a great invention not because of the default installation, but because you can add viewers like the YouTube one from the task or that can play the videos with VLC.
Unity, in my opinion, lacks more customization options, but it is very normal that they are still working "in the fat" which is that it works better and better.
Unlike Android - where the drivers are not public, in Ubuntu they are, so we will not have those discussions of whether it is updated or not. As long as your hardware holds, it will update.
PS: I have made a request to Google to make the Android drivers / drivers public, you can improve it, amend it and share it as you like.
http://www.change.org/petitions/google-public-drivers-for-android-controladores-pblicos-para-android
A Media Center that all current users are experiencing. With their bread they eat it. On the other hand…. it's okay for a representative of the Linux world to move into these fields.
Well, I'll tell it to whom I know to find some of their countrymen to sell me some cocaine to drink before getting into a car or plane with Ubuntu, mostly so that when the purple screen of death or the beeps (with the consequent hostiazo) death hurts less
I don't know, I would focus on one thing and then move on to another, you can't do 20 things at the same time (tablets, TV, computers ...)
To get to the bottom of this question you just have to follow the money trail.
Does anyone believe that Canonical is an NGO?
Free software is the means and not the purpose, which on the other hand has nothing wrong.
I think nobody says it is bad, what is being discussed is whether they will be able to fulfill their commitments.
Speaking of Ubuntu, many people complain that it is unstable, nothing has happened to me to think otherwise, but it is everyone's experience.
Will the same happen with the other products? Unstable televisions? Oo imagine.
I agree, it is a company and its purpose is to make money, but as such, they must take care of the product, and based on the criticisms that are many, I think they are not going well as far as the "finished product" is concerned .
But anything can happen.
regards
I like it, I wish you the best of luck and I don't know if the ubuntu versions can add this TV function, it would be great genial
According to some post if you can, for a sample or button:
http://www.google.com.mx/#hl=es&cp=28&gs_id=2&xhr=t&q=Instalar+Ubuntu+TV+desde+PPA&pf=p&sclient=psy-ab&site=&source=hp&pbx=1&oq=Instalar+Ubuntu+TV+desde+PPA&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=&gs_upl=&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&fp=4bae4dd755812109&biw=1600&bih=785
You have a lot of reason, you have made me think about what I had not taken into account. And not only is that what you point out well, but one thing is to get an Ubuntu loaded with failures that one thing is «the community» that puts on a blindfold and forgives everything and they will invent a justification for themselves and another thing is the real world where both the company and the client expect things to work and failures are not so easy to forgive because they are paid dearly with money.
And make no mistake, if Ubuntu succeeds at that then Ubuntu succeeded; but if Ubuntu fails do not doubt that it will be dragged to entire Linux and the one that says will not be missing "This Linux is shit" as in fact they already say it when you give them an Ubuntu and it hits something.
I am not saying this in terms of "we must help Ubuntu" since for me if that happens it happens (I am neither Ubuntu nor Linux nor OpenSource nor nonsense; I am me and my family), I say it so that we are clear that it is well and nothing else and if it happens we will see it coming from the bank without surprises.