issue100:notre_grand_ancetre
Différences
Ci-dessous, les différences entre deux révisions de la page.
Les deux révisions précédentesRévision précédente | |||
issue100:notre_grand_ancetre [2015/09/03 18:35] – [Utiliser l'environnement du bureau] auntiee | issue100:notre_grand_ancetre [2015/09/03 18:50] (Version actuelle) – [Conclusions] auntiee | ||
---|---|---|---|
Ligne 196: | Ligne 196: | ||
La disponibilité d'une connection WiFi est quelque peu aléatoire. Si vous avez la chance d' | La disponibilité d'une connection WiFi est quelque peu aléatoire. Si vous avez la chance d' | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | **Conclusions | ||
+ | |||
+ | This trip back in time made me realize three things. The first is that -despite the incident with Unity- there is actually quite a lot of coherence between Ubuntu versions all along the now eleven-year-long timeline of the distribution. The main objectives -such as ease of use for most users- have not really changed. A large offering catering for the non-English-speaking users has been there since day 1, and has only been improved over time. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The second point is that some things have changed on the hardware side. And, although GNU/Linux distributions such as Ubuntu have at times lent a hand towards hardware support, at the end of the day both the distributions and the user are tributaries to one main project: the Linux kernel itself. To this I would add the various device drivers available as source code, and the utilities needed to use them and for specific hardware-related tasks (such as ntfs-3g to use Windows' | ||
===== Conclusions ===== | ===== Conclusions ===== | ||
- | Ce voyage | + | Ce retour |
- | Le deuxième point est que certaines choses ont changé par rapport au matériel physique. Bien que les distributions GNU/Linux telles qu' | + | Le deuxième point est que certaines choses ont changé par rapport au matériel physique. Bien que les distributions GNU/Linux telles qu' |
- | ***Finally, I also came to realize our dependency on the Internet. This may seem a platitude, but consider: a US $150 Chromebook can be considered a viable option to work with (via Google Drive or Microsoft Office 365) or for entertainment. But a $1000+ computer without a viable Web browser capable of handling JavaScript, Flash and CSS will not. We depend on access to Web services to the point that having a modern browser is something of a game maker or breaker. | + | **Finally, I also came to realize our dependency on the Internet. This may seem a platitude, but consider: a US $150 Chromebook can be considered a viable option to work with (via Google Drive or Microsoft Office 365) or for entertainment. But a $1000+ computer without a viable Web browser capable of handling JavaScript, Flash and CSS will not. We depend on access to Web services to the point that having a modern browser is something of a game maker or breaker. |
- | In retrospect, most of the ways in which Warty could be a found lacking for the modern world had been addressed and solved, quite quickly, by Canonical and the GNU/Linux ecosystem as a whole. To take an example, Karmic Koala (9.10) had the USB stick problem entirely solved. A Karmic desktop can be installed directly from USB, and once installed, can recognize and work with USBs in different formats. Speaking of formats, the upgraded ext4 filesystem was available in 2009. Wifi support had been much improved in the five years since Warty, and the C library also went up to version 6.*** | + | In retrospect, most of the ways in which Warty could be a found lacking for the modern world had been addressed and solved, quite quickly, by Canonical and the GNU/Linux ecosystem as a whole. To take an example, Karmic Koala (9.10) had the USB stick problem entirely solved. A Karmic desktop can be installed directly from USB, and once installed, can recognize and work with USBs in different formats. Speaking of formats, the upgraded ext4 filesystem was available in 2009. Wifi support had been much improved in the five years since Warty, and the C library also went up to version 6.** |
- | Finalement, j'ai remarqué | + | Enfin, je me suis rendu compte de notre dépendance |
- | Rétrospectivement, | + | Rétrospectivement, |
***This means that even though Karmic still used the version 3 series of the Firefox browser, a more modern browser can easily be downloaded from the Mozilla web page and used as a direct replacement. Note the Firefox version number and the live WiFi signal indicator in the following screen capture. Also note that Youtube works through HTML 5, without installing supplementary Flash software. | ***This means that even though Karmic still used the version 3 series of the Firefox browser, a more modern browser can easily be downloaded from the Mozilla web page and used as a direct replacement. Note the Firefox version number and the live WiFi signal indicator in the following screen capture. Also note that Youtube works through HTML 5, without installing supplementary Flash software. | ||
Ligne 217: | Ligne 224: | ||
It shows us how much Ubuntu had evolved by 2009, in aspects that directly impact the user experience. Karmic could eventually still be used as a daily driver if you are not too worried about security or being on the bleeding edge of technology. Warty could not.*** | It shows us how much Ubuntu had evolved by 2009, in aspects that directly impact the user experience. Karmic could eventually still be used as a daily driver if you are not too worried about security or being on the bleeding edge of technology. Warty could not.*** | ||
- | Cela veut dire que, bien que Karmic | + | Cela veut dire que, bien que Karmic |
Ligne 224: | Ligne 231: | ||
***Author biography: Alan teaches computer science at Escola Andorrana de Batxillerat (high-school). He has previously given GNU/Linux courses at the University of Andorra and taught GNU/Linux systems administration at the Open University of Catalunya (UOC).*** | ***Author biography: Alan teaches computer science at Escola Andorrana de Batxillerat (high-school). He has previously given GNU/Linux courses at the University of Andorra and taught GNU/Linux systems administration at the Open University of Catalunya (UOC).*** | ||
- | Biographie de l' | + | Biographie de l' |
issue100/notre_grand_ancetre.1441298111.txt.gz · Dernière modification : 2015/09/03 18:35 de auntiee