Paolo Donadeo — LifeLOG/Linux

Thanks Mr. Ritchie

p.donadeo@gmail.com (Paolo Donadeo) — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 21:46:52 +0000

Today Unix, or some other operating system deeply inspired by Unix, is pervasive: servers, embedded devices (notably Android, but it's only one) and the “revolutionary” Mac OSX is itself an incarnation of the ideas and works of Dennis Ritchie.

Dennis Ritchie worked on Unix more than 40 years ago, and my questions is: what will we use in forty years? Probably something Dennis Ritchie was working some months ago.

Thanks Mr. Ritchie.

Afterthought (about Unity)

p.donadeo@gmail.com (Paolo Donadeo) — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:18:00 +0000

In my previous post I expressed a strong opinion about Unity, the new graphic shell included in the latest release of Ubuntu, branding it as unusable.

Actually, I was wrong. My bad feeling was due to the novelty of ideas developed in Unity, and my the superficiality in testing it.

I don't know how Gnome Shell 3 compares with Unity, simply because I didn't tested the new Gnome Shell yet, but for sure Unity is a good project and represents a very interesting approach.

Unity

p.donadeo@gmail.com (Paolo Donadeo) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:05:00 +0000

My checklist for today:

try the new Ubuntu shell, Unity: done. Verdict: unusable.
try Gnome Shell 3: done. Verdict: unstable.

This time I pass, let's see the next Ubuntu release if it will be more stable and usable.