Computex 2009:關於Ubuntu的消息

在6月4日的時候,Canonical邀請十多家媒體來聊聊關於Ubuntu。老實說,像這樣的場合,筆者通常都不會很想去,一來大約知道現場會談到什麼,畢竟Ubuntu我們還算是滿關心的;二來談的都會高來高去,講的是全球,再不然是亞洲,很難談到只有台灣的部分。
總之,不外是下定決心要好好經營。固的,這個決心很好,但如果可以告訴我們之後關於ARM有什麼具體的做法,合作對象是誰等等訊息,我會更感激Canonical人員的。不過呢,廠商到最後還是沒有說出來。
老實說,我還比較希望技術人員,來我們癮科技這邊坐坐,談談在工作上的甘苦談,或是廠商其他人員,談談在台灣要發展Ubuntu等等類似在公開的會議上不會談到的東西。
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<Computex 2009: Some News about Ubuntu>
On the 4th of June, Canonical invited more than a dozen of press media for something about Ubuntu. Quite frankly, it's the kind of occasion that we would be eager to attend. For starter, we pretty much knew what will be said, since we care about Ubuntu and constantly monitor for its latest development. On top of that, we knew that in most cases, what will be said usually set from global or Asia perspectives; rarely will there be anything Taiwan specific content that might interest us.
In short, nothing other than expressing the determination of trying to run and manage, which is good. However, if someone can tell us something about any tangible plans about dealing with ARM, who might be the future business partners and etc., then we will feel grateful to the helpful staffs at Canonical. However, in the end, still nothing.
Quite frankly we would rather hope for the chance to invite the technical staffs to our HQ to talk about their stories at work, or someone from the vendor to talk about the issues with promoting Ubuntu in Taiwan, something they wouldn't be talking about in the press conference.








嗯,我知道灌測試版OS會有一定的風險,但天真的我一直以為「可能會損害你的硬體」這個警告只是隨手寫上去的。Ubuntu的8.10 alpha版已證實可能會將某些硬體─特別是Intel的網路卡弄成殘廢,原因則是系統可能無意間改寫了網卡上的NVRAM,讓網卡因此失憶而再起不能。他們說這個bug應該只會影響筆電,對於桌電則不會有所影響。請想嘗鮮的人一定要注意,或著靜待理應較穩定的Beta版來臨(Linux的Alpha版可不是開玩笑的)




