Why I love contributing to Ubuntu
Posted by Adi | Filed under English, Free Software, Planet Ubuntu
The main thing that keeps me contributing to Ubuntu is it’s community. Is not the technology, is not the brown color it’s not the restricted driver manager, just people.
I love working with other Ubuntu contributors to improve Ubuntu and free software in general.
In the past I was a RedHat Desktop, Slackware and Gentoo user. I skipped the Debian phase and get straight to Ubuntu.
I have contributed with some Slackware “packages” but as I can see Slackware people are much more like lonely wolves. I also enjoyed the Romanian Gentoo community, and contributed with support on the local forum and translating some documentation. In general the Gentoo community was not so newbie friendly and I got bored of compiling and recompiling every piece of software.
I was using Red Hat Desktop, a version before they have switch the community to Fedora and I was not happy with the idea that RedHat does not want people to use Red Hat Desktop and switch to Fedora. Now I think that Fedora has a pretty good community and their artwork and also technical parts are sometimes more “advance” than Ubuntu, but I still hear anti-Ubuntu jokes inside the Fedora community.
I think that now Fedora has also one of the beautiful communities, but there are still many businessmen wearing red hats inside the Fedora community.
I seldom hear anti-Windows or anti-OtherDistribution jokes inside my close circle of Ubuntu developers, both international or from Romania. And I hope to hear such jokes less and less.
I will use this post to thanks some of the Ubuntu developers for being so nice and making my Ubuntu contribution a pleasant activity: Stas, Doru, Jani, Alin, Alex, Milo, Danilo, Lucian
Tags: Ubuntu
February 5th, 2009 at 11:51
As long as there are people like Aaaron Toponce in your “community”, who spread FUD and claim that Canonical does the “real stuff” while Debian is merely only packaging the work of others [0], your “community” is simply as sick as Fedora’s!
[0] http://pthree.org/2008/12/21/debian-what-it-means-to-me/
February 5th, 2009 at 19:11
I am sorry to hear that.
From that article I understood that he was saying the RedHat, Novel and Canonical are creating “innovation”.
So it is not just about Canonical
In the same artichel, he was writing:
* Debian means Ubuntu will be successful. Ubuntu just can’t exist without Debian.
* Debian means being the universal distribution. I don’t know of another operating system that is compiled for four kernels and fifteen CPU architectures.
Cheers!
February 6th, 2009 at 11:30
With me being guilty for a large part of those jokes…
February 6th, 2009 at 16:52
Not realy. On the Romanian Linux forums I found many Fedora users comming with false argument why Ubuntu is such a bad OS.
You jokes are explicitly markes as such, while other people are serious about them