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| = Testo inglese = My Story by Robert Boudreau I should preface this by saying that I’ve been using Linux for a long, long time. I also should note that, in all that time, I’ve never learned to program, develop or hack anything. I can write basic scripts if I have to, tinker with config files when necessary, and work when needed with the command line; that’s about it. I’m a user, not a developer, hacker or guru. I first came to Linux in 1995, after repeated headaches with the then new Windows 95. I’d heard about this Unix-like operating system that a college student had created and was giving away for free, and it piqued my curiosity. I’d like to say I just found a distro and installed it and life was grand, but it didn’t work that way back then. I instead had to download the source code, get a GCC compiler and all the other necessities running under DOS, and do it the hard way. But I was hooked. I started with TWM as a window manager, compiled a few apps I downloaded from a BBS, and I was off and running. Within a year or so, I’d found you could buy packaged versions at the local office supply, and my first was Red Hat, though now I can’t remember what version it was. Later came Debian, Mandrake, then SuSE. Debian and SuSE – now openSuSE – I’ve bounced back and forth with over the years, and for perhaps the last five or so I’ve pretty much settled on openSuSE. Until just recently. Anyone who keeps up with with Linux news in recent years can’t avoid running across things about Ubuntu. The trolls may say what they will, but Ubuntu has made great progress in putting Linux into the mainstream, and today you can’t find many applications that, if they have a Linux version at all, aren’t packaged for Ubuntu. Many computer manufacturers, like System76, if they use Linux, it’s Ubuntu. It’s in schools, institutions, government offices, it’s just about everywhere. Even Google now has its own version of Ubuntu for its employees. What is so special about it? Why has one distribution become almost synonymous with Linux? It piqued my curiosity. About two years ago, I actually tried Ubuntu – I think it was version 10.04 or 10.10, and frankly wasn’t that impressed. It was Gnome-centric for one, and I’m a KDE user. I read about Kubuntu being a KDE spin of Ubuntu, so I gave that a try. Sorry to say, compared to openSuSE or Debian it was too slow and bloated for my taste, so it too didn’t last long on my computer. In the time between then and now, though, Ubuntu has continued to become the port of first call for anyone looking into or trying Linux. Even one of my favorite video podcasts, the Linux Action Show, has become very Ubuntu-centric, Ubuntu gaining converts of the two hosts. So, recently, I decided to use the example of one of the hosts and give the latest Ubuntu a 30-day tryout, basically force myself to use it for 30 days and see how it felt after that. About two months ago I started on this experiment, and, well, here’s what happened. At first, I was quite impressed with Unity, it was different than the Gnome 2 I remembered, but more impressive to me were the speed improvements since my last foray with Ubuntu two years ago. However, after just a week of using only Unity, I started to feel that, while I’d learned my way around it and most of its way of doing things, I saw it as more eye-candy than as a better way of working. While I liked some of the lenses and the way they integrated the web into the desktop, I felt overall the HUD was too slow, took up too much screen real estate, and, in particular with the menu integration, it was just too hard to find what you’re looking for. I know it’s a work in progress, in time it will get much better and more refined, but, as it stands now, it just doesn’t work for me and the way I like to do things. But, I was going to be fair, and stuck to my plan of using it for thirty days. Then I dumped it and installed openSuSE 12.1. Something happened, though. There was an unexpected side-effect. I’d never even given it a thought while I was experimenting with Ubuntu, but it was there nonetheless, and, when I went back to openSuSE, it suddenly dawned on me. I knew why Ubuntu and its spin-offs are always at the top of the distro heap, why they’re so popular, and why they’re achieving what so many others have failed to: it all has to do with packages. For those unfamiliar with openSuSE, it’s a great Linux distribution, one of the best. They have huge software repositories with just about anything you could want in them. But they have one serious drawback: you have to be real careful if you install software from any but the default repositories. If you do want to get a newer version of something, or to try some software from another repository, it’s often going to lead to dependency problems. Then there’s the problem of trying to find and install proprietary drivers or software that doesn’t fit the “100% Open Source” model, like the VLC media player. OpenSuSE has a great software search system on its web site, and you can almost surely find what you want, but it requires adding another repository that in all likelihood will cause conflicts. I, of course, had learned to deal with these problems years ago, and could generally work around them to get the system I wanted, but it’s still a bit annoying. And, very often when it came time for a program upgrade, I was left having to repeat the whole dependency fixing all over again. After I did this last install of 12.1, and went through all the fixes that I needed to do in order to get my computer where I wanted it, it hit me. I didn’t remember having any need to do that in Ubuntu. Even when I added and pulled software from PPAs, there weren’t any conflicts. No dependencies to hunt down, nothing that worked before and then got broken. It all just worked. That’s Ubuntu’s greatest advantage, why I believe it has gotten to be the default choice of not only new Linux users, but also many seasoned veterans. The Ubuntu packaging system is second to none. I doubt this is easy to do, but it seems to be a core duty of the packagers and those who oversee the repositories, that things are gotten right. It’s obviously why so many Ubuntu variants and spin-offs still use the Ubuntu repositories, they can count on that stability. In my opinion, it’s a major achievement what will keep Ubuntu in the forefront. Not the snazzy desktops, the coming web integration, or the constant pro and con media hype that surrounds it. It’ll be that rock-solid packaging system that will keep Ubuntu at the top. When I realized this, what did I do? Installed Kubuntu. I did mention I was a KDE guy, didn’t I? What a difference from just two years ago! The latest Kubuntu (12.04.1) is as solid, fast and well-done as any KDE distro out there, and... it has those great Ubuntu repositories behind it. What more can anyone ask for? |
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| Elizabeth Krumbach: Dicci qualcosa di te. Flavia Weisghizzi: Sono Flavia Weisghizzi, ho 34 anni e vivo in quel meraviglioso melting pot chiamato Roma, Italia, dove sono nata e da dove un giorno, forse, me ne andrò. Sono una scrittrice, scrivo poesie e saggi critici di letteratura. Lavoro anche come giornalista freelance e speaker radiofonica. Recentemente, grazie ad Ubuntu, sono diventata anche una speaker alle conferenze. |
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| Detto questo, si può sostenere che la storia del mio coinvolgimento con Ubuntu e FLOSS è molto originale. È iniziato tutto nel 2001, la prima volta che ho scritto per un giornale online. Mi hanno chiesto di scrivere un pezzo per IT su un office suite alternativo chiamato StarOffice (si, era prima dell'era di OpenOffice.org). Lì ho imparato la filosofia FLOSS, e sono rimasta del tutto afascinata dal suo senso di libertà. EK: Cosa ti ha spinta ad essere coinvolta nella comunità Ubuntu? FW: Al mio primo tentativo, ho provato ad approcciarmi a Linux OS come ad un normale software da usare, ma è molto difficile per una ragazza che ha studiato letteratura italiana come cosa principale installarlo senza aiuto. Ho continuato comunque a leggere pezzi sull'open source e su Linux. Il 2007 ha segnato il giro di vite della mia esistenza: il mio Windows XP ha deciso che era il momento "di tirare le cuoia".. portando via con sè un mese intero del mio lavoro. Il mio ragazzo mi ha portato un CD Live di Ubuntu 7.04, e così un Feisty Fawn ha iniziato a girare lentamente sul mio PC, permettendomi di accedere a tutto il mio lavoro e a tutti i miei documenti! È stato amore a prima vista! Dopo l'installazione di Ubuntu, mi è sembrato naturale guardare alla comunità italiana e muovere i primi passi nei canali IRC. Mi sono sentita a casa. Dopo qualche settimana ho pensato che sarebbe stato carino dare una mano alla community, così ho chiesto di partecipare al gruppo traduzioni. In quel periodo ci fu anche l'uscita della prima pubblicazione di Full Circle Magazine. Ho collaborato anche al suo gruppo di traduzione. Venendo dal mondo delle pubblicazioni, ho potuto condividere le mie abilità e le mie esperienze lavorative. Inizialmente pensavo che avere semplicemente delle abilità nel campo della comunicazione fosse inutile in una software-oriented community, ma mi sbagliavo. Durante il rilascio di Ubuntu 8.04 sono diventata la Cordinatrice delle Relazioni Media del LoCo team italiano e ho cordinato il progetto Relazioni Media, con lo scopo di diffondere lo spirito di Ubuntu nel settore dei magazine in Italia. È stato un successo. Infatti la nostra community è stata ospitata diverse volte da programmi nazionali. Raccontare la mia storia è importante perchè credo che molto persone siano solo timide e sottostimino il contributo che potrebbero dare alla community. EK: Qual'è il tuo ruolo nella community Ubuntu? FW: Al momento sono un membro del Italian LoCo Team Community Council. Certo, mi occupo ancora di relazioni Media e recentemente ho iniziato a promuovere, insieme a Silvia Bindelli, una branca italiana del progetto Ubuntu Women. Quando sono sbarcata in Ubuntu (si, proprio sbarcata) avevo sentito parlare di questo progetto, ma non esisteva ancora una branca locale. A quel tempo c'erano due modi principali per ottenere aiuto con i miei problemi collegati all'OS: connettersi al canale IRC o il forum. Dovevo poi scegliere tra chiedere sul canale di supporto dell'Italian LoCo Team nella mia lingua, ma in un ambiente dominato da uomini, o chiedere in un canale dedicato alle donne, ma in una lingua "aliena" (non semplicemente Inglese, ma Inglese applicato all'informatica). Qui in Italia abbiamo dei problemi sul modo in cui le donne sono accolte in molti ambienti di lavoro e, sfortunatamente, questo include anche l'open source. Ci sono troppo pregiudizi nei confronti delle donne, non solo secondo gli uomini, ma anche secondo molte donne. Con in mente questo fatto, spero di essere capace di innalzare lo status delle donne nel campo del software open-source. So scrivere e mi sento a mio agio a parlare in pubblico. Ho pubbliacato (con Luca Ferretti, un membro dello GNOME Release Team) un paio di libri su Ubuntu e mi viene spesso richiesto di parlare in conferenze o tavole rotonde su Ubuntu e FLOSS. EK: C'è qualcosa che ancora non hai fatto, ma in cui ti piacerebbe essere coinvolta in futuro per ciò che riguarda la community Ubuntu? FW: Oh, molte, molte cose! Ma, prima di tutto, mi piacerebbe partecipare a un UDS! Vorrei trovarmi faccia a faccia con le persone che hanno costruito Ubuntu e di cui conosco adesso solo il nome o il nickname. Come Cordinatrice delle Relazioni Media, penso che sarebbe molto più utile lanciare un solo comunicato stampa tra i diversi gruppi locali e la Canonical. Darebbe molta più efficacia alle notizie. Infine... vorrei fare un package! Soltanto uno, per poter dire di avere fatto per una volta il lavoro sporco! EK: Cos'altro ti ineressa, fuori dall'open source a da Ubuntu? FW: Mi piace la poesia. Insegno scrittura creativa, e amo leggere e scrivere poesie. Sono una donna curiosa, attratta da tutto ciò che è inusuale e nuovo. Mi piace osservare le piccole cose cose del mondo, perchè sono convinta che è dalle piccole cose che possono venire grandi cambiamenti. Amo il teatro. Di recente ho studiato la filosofia Yoga. Potete trovare di più sulle mie idee e le mie poesie in italiano sul mio blog di lungo corso all'indirizzo http:/weisghizzi.ilcannocchiale.it, oppure in inglese sul neonato Code is Poetry all'indirizzo http:/deindre.wordpress.com/ Vignetta Sembri così carino in questo nuovo completo. Ti riconosco a stento. |
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Testo inglese
My Story by Robert Boudreau
I should preface this by saying that I’ve been using Linux for a long, long time. I also should note that, in all that time, I’ve never learned to program, develop or hack anything. I can write basic scripts if I have to, tinker with config files when necessary, and work when needed with the command line; that’s about it. I’m a user, not a developer, hacker or guru.
I first came to Linux in 1995, after repeated headaches with the then new Windows 95. I’d heard about this Unix-like operating system that a college student had created and was giving away for free, and it piqued my curiosity. I’d like to say I just found a distro and installed it and life was grand, but it didn’t work that way back then. I instead had to download the source code, get a GCC compiler and all the other necessities running under DOS, and do it the hard way. But I was hooked. I started with TWM as a window manager, compiled a few apps I downloaded from a BBS, and I was off and running. Within a year or so, I’d found you could buy packaged versions at the local office supply, and my first was Red Hat, though now I can’t remember what version it was. Later came Debian, Mandrake, then SuSE. Debian and SuSE – now openSuSE – I’ve bounced back and forth with over the years, and for perhaps the last five or so I’ve pretty much settled on openSuSE. Until just recently.
Anyone who keeps up with with Linux news in recent years can’t avoid running across things about Ubuntu. The trolls may say what they will, but Ubuntu has made great progress in putting Linux into the mainstream, and today you can’t find many applications that, if they have a Linux version at all, aren’t packaged for Ubuntu. Many computer manufacturers, like System76, if they use Linux, it’s Ubuntu. It’s in schools, institutions, government offices, it’s just about everywhere. Even Google now has its own version of Ubuntu for its employees. What is so special about it? Why has one distribution become almost synonymous with Linux? It piqued my curiosity.
About two years ago, I actually tried Ubuntu – I think it was version 10.04 or 10.10, and frankly wasn’t that impressed. It was Gnome-centric for one, and I’m a KDE user. I read about Kubuntu being a KDE spin of Ubuntu, so I gave that a try. Sorry to say, compared to openSuSE or Debian it was too slow and bloated for my taste, so it too didn’t last long on my computer. In the time between then and now, though, Ubuntu has continued to become the port of first call for anyone looking into or trying Linux. Even one of my favorite video podcasts, the Linux Action Show, has become very Ubuntu-centric, Ubuntu gaining converts of the two hosts. So, recently, I decided to use the example of one of the hosts and give the latest Ubuntu a 30-day tryout, basically force myself to use it for 30 days and see how it felt after that. About two months ago I started on this experiment, and, well, here’s what happened.
At first, I was quite impressed with Unity, it was different than the Gnome 2 I remembered, but more impressive to me were the speed improvements since my last foray with Ubuntu two years ago. However, after just a week of using only Unity, I started to feel that, while I’d learned my way around it and most of its way of doing things, I saw it as more eye-candy than as a better way of working. While I liked some of the lenses and the way they integrated the web into the desktop, I felt overall the HUD was too slow, took up too much screen real estate, and, in particular with the menu integration, it was just too hard to find what you’re looking for. I know it’s a work in progress, in time it will get much better and more refined, but, as it stands now, it just doesn’t work for me and the way I like to do things. But, I was going to be fair, and stuck to my plan of using it for thirty days. Then I dumped it and installed openSuSE 12.1.
Something happened, though. There was an unexpected side-effect. I’d never even given it a thought while I was experimenting with Ubuntu, but it was there nonetheless, and, when I went back to openSuSE, it suddenly dawned on me. I knew why Ubuntu and its spin-offs are always at the top of the distro heap, why they’re so popular, and why they’re achieving what so many others have failed to: it all has to do with packages.
For those unfamiliar with openSuSE, it’s a great Linux distribution, one of the best. They have huge software repositories with just about anything you could want in them. But they have one serious drawback: you have to be real careful if you install software from any but the default repositories. If you do want to get a newer version of something, or to try some software from another repository, it’s often going to lead to dependency problems. Then there’s the problem of trying to find and install proprietary drivers or software that doesn’t fit the “100% Open Source” model, like the VLC media player. OpenSuSE has a great software search system on its web site, and you can almost surely find what you want, but it requires adding another repository that in all likelihood will cause conflicts.
I, of course, had learned to deal with these problems years ago, and could generally work around them to get the system I wanted, but it’s still a bit annoying. And, very often when it came time for a program upgrade, I was left having to repeat the whole dependency fixing all over again. After I did this last install of 12.1, and went through all the fixes that I needed to do in order to get my computer where I wanted it, it hit me. I didn’t remember having any need to do that in Ubuntu. Even when I added and pulled software from PPAs, there weren’t any conflicts. No dependencies to hunt down, nothing that worked before and then got broken. It all just worked.
That’s Ubuntu’s greatest advantage, why I believe it has gotten to be the default choice of not only new Linux users, but also many seasoned veterans. The Ubuntu packaging system is second to none. I doubt this is easy to do, but it seems to be a core duty of the packagers and those who oversee the repositories, that things are gotten right. It’s obviously why so many Ubuntu variants and spin-offs still use the Ubuntu repositories, they can count on that stability. In my opinion, it’s a major achievement what will keep Ubuntu in the forefront. Not the snazzy desktops, the coming web integration, or the constant pro and con media hype that surrounds it. It’ll be that rock-solid packaging system that will keep Ubuntu at the top.
When I realized this, what did I do? Installed Kubuntu. I did mention I was a KDE guy, didn’t I? What a difference from just two years ago! The latest Kubuntu (12.04.1) is as solid, fast and well-done as any KDE distro out there, and... it has those great Ubuntu repositories behind it. What more can anyone ask for?
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