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Ubuntu’s growth in India
The recent announcement by Jane Silber, chief executive officer, Canonical that, “India is one of the countries where Ubuntu is most successful and well received. We see significant growth in Ubuntu adoption in India.
Over the last year we saw 160 per cent growth. So, we believe that there is real potential and demand here. I would like to make special mention of our partners because this is done with them. So we can go to the market through our OEMs.” For the open source community, adoption of FOSS in India indeed bodes well for the growth of this platform.
Commenting on Ubuntu’s growth in the country, Silber said that though clear statistical numbers are unavailable “as Canonical does need its users to register,” inference drawn from the security updates, downloads and other such analytical. Besides, Canonical OEM partners in India recommend that Ubuntu’s growth can become larger “with proper marketing and education.”
In anticipation of reaching out to Indian users who are looking for easy to use software and technology, Silber said that, “We want to reach out to people who want a simple, easy-to-use, secure computing experience. Frankly, we want to reach out to people who don’t care much about operating systems. We are pretty strong already among the people who care about operating systems. In the big scheme of the world, people who go to a website and download an operating system and install that on their computers form a relatively small number. This makes our initiative particularly significant because we want to reach out to a whole new audience … the mass consumer audience … and it’s important for Ubuntu to sustain our growth and it’s important for companies like Dell and other OEMs as well. We work with others besides Dell because it helps them bring an open solution to a larger number of people.”
Recognizing that Indian user’s currently adopting Ubuntu look for seamless and cost-free technology that also gives them a cutting-edge when they are using competitive software, Canonical with OEMs is crashing in on the retail space with their Ubuntu pre-loaded machines. The high-participation of the Ubuntu community in the country too has contributed significantly to propel Ubuntu to its present high adoption status in the country.
India is already a global hub in software technology services and Ubuntu as much as the open source platform has been a core-competency of developers from the times of UNIX and its predecessors. The increasing growth of Ubuntu has first of all been because of the encouragement from regional as well as federal government in India, in implementing open source technologies, for the delivery of their services.
With right software environment, newer generations of users are becoming familiar with Ubuntu as much as with proprietary software and are willing to look beyond limited licensing software towards open licensed software to develop. Therefore, Canonical with its bevy of OEMs is poised rightly, in India, to break the glass-ceiling as such, and penetrate common use – as much as at home as at office.
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Larry Page is not being completely honest! The manner in which the PRISM program/project works does not need access from company administrators or owners, so called “direct access”; the access to the information is already there. These tech company CEOs take for granted the actual intelligence of most end users of their products. All it takes is a little digging and reading to go from ignorant to informed on these things especially on exactly how the internet works/functions in the U.S.A. I find Larry Page’s remarks just as laughable as Al Gore’s claim to “inventing” the internet/world wide web!
If you, as an end user, are reading this post; I challenge you to research these matters yourself. It really is quite simple with all the “information sites” that exist on the web today ie Wikipedia, & other online encyclopedias that actually list source material, as well as highly respected tech sites and blogs that also list their source material. Be warned: this is only the tip of the iceberg and these tech CEOs know and understand this; they are scrambling in attempt to perform DAMAGE CONTROL to save the company and what little trust thay have left from their products end users/consumers.
Am I a skeptic? I believe someone has to be or needs to be at this point in time! If your not just a little skeptical of the government, tech companies, and the people that are in charge of these agencies and companies; you need to be, even if just a little skeptic. For your own personal protection and security! I know I was a part of this community for over 14 years!
Anders Jackson
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As I understand it so do VLC use same encoders as ffmpeg. And yes, there are less code that can break when you use command line instead of a graphical UI.
And may I ask what mono has to do with VLC? *facepalm*
Anders Jackson
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Just some thoughts about Java.
OpenJDK7 are now THE Java implementation and Oracles are just one more of the reimplementations. So you should not need to install Oracles version.
And you really don’t need to remove the OpenJDK7 installation to also have Sun Java JDK 7. Just run
sudo update-java-alternatives –list
and select which java you want to have as default java of all that is installed.
And if you want to run a program with one special version, check manpage for java-wrappers how to do that.
man java-wrappers
so you can run java program rasterizer like this:
JAVA_FLAVOR=openjdk rasterizer
JAVA_ARGS=-Xmx80m rasterizer
JAVA_BINDIR=/usr/share/
etc
Anders Jackson
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Yes, it is. If you are a “5 years old schizophrenic kid” who can’t restrict what effects to use and what to not use. It’s actually usefull, if you can restrain yourself.
Anders Jackson
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Agree with BA. You should teach how to remove telnetd from your servers, and tell them to use SSH instead.
And explain that telnet is not secured. It’s easy for anyone to see what you type in clear text or MIM-attacks.
Or you might want to add a kerberos version of telnetd and se to it that it denies any try without kerberos authorization.
The tool telnet is usefull, for example to explain how SMTP protocoll or HTTP-protocoll works by making the user be the client (mail client or web client).
But you do not need to install telnetd for that.