Re 2.5.3 release - Ubuntu

[Chris Good]

Hi John,

 

Thanks for letting me know about this. I appreciate you taking the time.

I've seen all the good work you do in this forum so respect your opinion
very much.

 

I've just spent many hours reading about Unity & Mir. I hadn't previously
heard about the Mir issue.

I only been using Ubuntu for about a year and a half, so I'm not qualified
to comment on Ubuntu development directions.

 

>From what I've read, it seems opinion on Unity/Mir is divided.

 

I haven't seen before anything saying Ubuntu was unreliable.

I can say from my experience that 12.04 LTS (Long Term Support) seems to be
reliable.

The whole idea of LTS is you only get updates that should not compromise
reliability.

If you want the latest & greatest, then you elect to install non LTS
updates, and take the documented risks.

 

Will Ubuntu going to Mir mean that GnuCash will no longer run in Ubuntu?

 

Although I'm a big fan of FOSS, I run GnuCash under Windows, rather than
Ubuntu anyway.

Primarily because I started off with GncCash in Windows as I use my own MS
Access app to control my Investments (smalltime) and comparing that to
GnuCash helps ensure I'm not making data entry errors.

 

I have also found a couple of things that meant using GnuCash in Ubuntu
wasn't as nice as Windows:

1)      Occasionally the window title bar and menubar disappear - rebooting
fixes. I'm not sure if this is a Unity problem.

2)      Small toolbar icons with no help text always visible

 

Regards, Chris

 

 

From: John Ralls [mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us] 
Sent: Wednesday, 10 July 2013 12:06 AM
To: Chris Good
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org
Subject: Re: Re 2.5.3 release - Ubuntu

 

 

On Jul 9, 2013, at 1:21 AM, Chris Good <chris.good at ozemail.com.au> wrote:






Hi John Ralls,


Congratulations & thanks to all that contributed! It looks like a very nice
set of changes.

I'm wondering why you describe Ubuntu as 'aggressive'?
Do you perhaps mean progressive? Or has some Ubuntu person hit you?

 

I call Ubuntu aggressive because even though they are a mass-market distro
they're effectively shipping Debian Unstable. Users get the latest releases,
but lose reliability. 

 

The rest of the Linux community considers them aggressive because of Unity
and Mir, where they're going their own way instead of working with the rest
of the Linux community.

 

My Mac's dictionary provides two definitions for "aggressive":

"ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by orresulting from
aggression: he's very uncooperative and aggressive |aggressive behavior.

.    "pursuing one's aims and interests forcefully, sometimes unduly so: an
aggressive businessman."



I have the second in mind for Ubuntu's packaging policies and the first for
their development of Unity and especially Mir.

 

Regards,

John Ralls

 


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