Comments on: S04E11 – The Trooper

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 14:19:00 +0000

I would like to say that I prefer Ubuntu’s Unity to the interface on OSX Lion.
They are doing a good. Looking forward to Ubuntu 11.10. Keep the podcasts coming.

By: Alan Pope

Alan Pope — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:54:00 +0000

Ok! Done. We’re uupc@joindiaspora.com

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:26:00 +0000

You should really try Diaspora again. It has evolved a lot.
Distributed social networking adresses a lot of problems that Facebook, Google+ and most other networks have. It it gets a wider user base, it could make social networking a solid and trustworthy technology, just like eMail is. But in oder to get more people on Diaspora, we have to get more early adopters and more advocacy.
Why don’t you set up a UUPC Diaspora page similarly to your UUPC identi.ca account. It doesn’t mean you shouldn’t use Facebook at all but it raises awareness among users that there is an alternative (that is not once again controlled by one company)?

By: Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 07:28:00 +0000

I think part of the problem is users who *aren’t* linux savvy, and just want their webcam/dongle/whatever to work. You know that due to the speed FOSS moves, something posted in 2005 probably isn’t still applicable, but to someone who’s new to Linux, they might not know that or even realise there’s a date they should be checking. How long has Windows XP been out, for instance?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:57:00 +0000

I was slightly unsettled by Jorge’s comments about deleting content pertaining to older versions of Ubuntu – are Linux users not savvy enough to filter their searches to recent results? If I search for something and see that all the results come from 2005 and 2006, I know I’ll only use them as a last resort. What about people who are using older versions of Ubuntu due to something like hardware limitations? Or other distributions which are using older versions of the same packages, so old workarounds for Ubuntu might work in a newer release of another distro. Just my two pennies worth…