Quality has a new name
Monday, April 23rd, 2012This quirky scheme of adjectives and animals presents a pretty puzzle every six months. What mix of characteristics do we want to celebrate in the next release? Here we are, busily finalizing the precise pangolin (which was a rather perfect product placement for a scaly anteater, all things considered) and before one realises it’s time to talk turkey, so to speak, about Q! Our code names may raise a quizzical eyebrow here and there, but they capture the zeitgeist of a cycle and shape our discussions in surprising ways. The quest for a name has no quick answer unless, of course, you jump to the last paragraph 
12.04 being an LTS we’ve been minding our P’s and Q’s, but many of our quality-oriented practices from 12.04 LTS will continue into Q territory. We’ll keep the platform usable throughout the cycle, because that helped hugely to encourage daily use of the release, which in turn gives us much better feedback on questions of quality. And we’ll ratchet up the continuous integration, smoke testing and automated benchmarking of the release, since we can do it all in the cloud. We have, so to speak, stacks and stacks of cloud to use. So quality is quotidian rather than quarterly. And it is both qualitative and quantitative, with user research and testing continuing to shape our design decisions. The effort we put into polishing Unity and the rest of the platform in 12.04 seem to have paid off handsomely, with many quondam quarrelsome suddenly quiescent in the face of a surge in support for the work.
But the finest quality is that without a name, so support for “quality” as a codename would at best be qualified. Every release has quality first these days – they all get used, on the server, on devices, and while the term of maintenance might vary, our commitment to interim releases is just as important as that to an LTS.
Our focus on quality permeates from the platform up to the code we write upstream, and our choices of upstream components too. We require tests and gated trunks for all Canonical codebases, and prefer upstreams that share the same values. Quality starts at the source, it’s not something that can be patched in after the fact. And I’m delighted that we have many upstreams using our tools to improve their quality too! We have awesome tools for daily builds from branches, continuous integration support in Launchpad, the ability to provide a gated trunk with tests run in the cloud for projects that really care about quality. Rumours and allegations of a move from Upstart to systemd are unfounded: Upstart has a huge battery of tests, the competition has virtually none. Upstart knows everything it wants to be, the competition wants to be everything. Quality comes from focus and clarity of purpose, it comes from careful design and rigorous practices. After a review by the Ubuntu Foundations team our course is clear: we’re committed to Upstart, it’s the better choice for a modern init, innit. For our future on cloud and client, Upstart is crisp, clean and correct. It will be a pleasure to share all the Upstart-enablement patches we carry with other family friends as soon as their release is ready and they can take a breath, so to speak.
From a styling point of view, we think in terms of quadruples: this next release starts a cycle of four, which will culminate in 14.04 LTS. So there’s an opportunity to refresh the look. That will kick off with a project on typography to make sure we are expressing ourselves with crystal clarity – making the most of Ubuntu’s Light and Medium font weights for a start. And a project on iconography, with the University of Reading, to refine the look of apps and interfaces throughout the platform. It’s amazing how quaint the early releases of Ubuntu look compared to the current style. And we’re only just getting started! In our artistic explorations we want to embrace tessellation as an expression of the part-digital, part-organic nature of Ubuntu. We love the way tessellated art expresses both the precision and reliability of our foundations, and the freedom and collaboration of a project driven by people making stuff for people. There’s nothing quixotic in our desire to make Ubuntu the easiest, steadiest, and most beautiful way to live digitally.
On the fauna front, the quotable campaign for the Queer Quokka is quorate but, it must sometimes be said, this is not a democracy. One man’s favourite furball is another’s mangy marsupial. No, the quintessential stories of Q will be all about style on the client, with a refresh of our theme and typography, a start on new iconography and perhaps even a new form factor taking flight. So brown is out and something colourful and light is called for. On the cloud front, the new virtualized network madness called Quantum will make its appearance. Being a first cut, it’s more likely to be Folsom than wholesome, but it’s going to be worth calling out, and the name is reminiscent of our package-oriented practices, where goodness is delivered one piece at a time. And so the stage is set for a decision: I give you the Quantal Quetzal, soon to be dressed in tessellated technicolour, now open for toolchains, kernels and other pressing preparatory packages.
April 23rd, 2012 at 1:43 pm
I was hoping Quetzal was short for Quetzalcoatlus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatlus
Here’s to hoping for something prehistoric for R!
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:00 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 2:01 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 2:03 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 2:09 pm
[...] Quantal QuetzalPostado em 23 de abril de 2012O criador do Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth, acabou de anunciar em seu blog o codinome da versão 12.10 do sistema operacional: Quantal Quetzal.De acordo com [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Green, red, blue, black, even a yellow beak… is it a coincidence that this bird has the colors of the South African flag?
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:25 pm
It does in a way, since the dinosaur is named after the Aztec diety, which itself is ‘Bird Snake’ – Quetzal being the bird and Coatl being the snake.
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:30 pm
Love the name! Love the bird! Can’t wait till October.
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:42 pm
I’ve found a really great use for systemd. If you want to know if someone is sane you can ask them their opinion on it, if they say that they love systemd and that everyone should use it, then you know that something is very wrong with them.
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:44 pm
[...] operasi generasi akan datang mereka, iaitu Ubuntu 12.10. Melalui blog beliau, Mark Shuttleworth mengumumkan Ubuntu 12.10 bakal dikenali sebagai Quantal [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:44 pm
[...] è stato dato dallo stesso Mark Shuttleworth tramite il suo blog. Vi ricordo che l’uscita di Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal Quetzal è prevista per il 18 Ottobre 2012 [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:46 pm
[...] Quantal Quetzal. Así fue anunciado por el CEO (en la sombra) de Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth en su blog. Según Wikipedia: El Quetzal es un ave perteneciente a la familia Trogonidae, que se encuentra en [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 2:56 pm
[...] a recent blog post, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu, announces the naming schema for Ubuntu 14.04LTS. This new [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:00 pm
Considering the very first page on the systemd wiki (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd) says this:
Spelling:
Yes, it is written systemd, not system D or System D, or even SystemD. And it isn’t system d either.
And yet you manage to spell it wrong. That gives me a lot of confidence regarding the rigour and thoroughness of your research when making such decisions.
Considering the groundswell of support from all the major Linux vendors with the exception of yourself and from the embedded community, this just looks like another case of your pride getting in the way of better judgement. I very much hope you reconsider.
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:04 pm
As nice as the name sounds, in quantum mechanics a quantum leap is typically the smallest possible step a system can do.
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:09 pm
that’s was so awesome!!!
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:10 pm
A little fun with 2012, eh Mark!? The Quetzal(coatl), is the feathered serpent as depicted in the (Maya) Codex Telleriano; and 2012 being the date of his return. Hence, the Maya Calendar countdown to “A New Beginning”. The Naming of 12.10 and the Timing could not be more “Precise”.
By the way, Ubuntu Rocks, and Unity has certainly grown on me… loving the Lens!
Thank you for your amazing effort, you are certainly a harbinger of change.
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:26 pm
[...] de los nombres de pasadas ediciones de Ubuntu, pero Mark Shuttleworth lo ha vuelto a conseguir al anunciar el nombre de la futura edición otoñal de la distro de Canonical, que se llamará Ubuntu 12.10 [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:42 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 3:48 pm
Awesome bird! It exists because nature never is democratic. Art can’t be democratic otherwise the vision would get blurred. Keep on with your “…artistic explorations”. Your clear, fresh, colourful statements are very much apprecitated.
April 23rd, 2012 at 3:49 pm
Yes, bringing in people at an earlier stage is very important. If we can get BtrFS by default and an ability to easily revert upgrades, I think it’ll be easier to convince people to jump in from the very start with this one. If an upgrade completely messes up everything, then just file bugs and reboot to the time when everything was good. No big deal. That does require some tools though. It’s not currently as friendly as it should be.
Very cool name!
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:08 pm
[...] (responsável pelo desenvolvimento das distribuições Ubuntu…) como título estava: “A qualidade tem um novo nome” e ao início a surpresa: “E assim, o palco está montado para uma decisão: eu lhe dou [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:09 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 4:16 pm
There was a brief moment of hope that the naming thing would be put to rest. Oh well, it’s still 12.04 LTS to me.
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:20 pm
[...] Shuttleworth affirmed that in or starting with Ubuntu 12.10 is to be adopted “a project on iconography, with the [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:37 pm
The Quetzal, although is present in all “Mesoamerica” (part of Mexico and Central America) is not really typical of the mexican culture. It is Guatemala’s national bird and it also plays an important role in the culture of Costa Rica.
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:55 pm
Looking forward to check it out!!!
April 23rd, 2012 at 4:57 pm
As somebody who ends up typing the Ubuntu codenames a few hundred times each release, I wish you’d pick easier to type names. Oneiric was hard enough (it’s not an everyday sequence of letters) but this one has multiple outlier keys.
Le sigh.
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:01 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 5:01 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 5:01 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 5:09 pm
Brilliant! I was rooting for Quetzal, albeit of the Qizzical persuasion to try to fit a record braking number of ‘z’s in the name. We’ll need some very colourful Q t-shirts!
Also of note, the quetzal is the national bird of Guatemala and gives its name to their currency. It was a sacred bird of the Maya, who were great mathematicians and astronomers who used a base 20 counting system. It is a species that is not on the endangered list yet but is at risk to be; and so is the Maya language. The Maya also had an amazing calendar that comes to the end of a great cycle and the beginning of a new one in December 2012 so just in time for 12.10. Not bad coordination when you consider that a Maya great cycle is roughly 5000 years! I’ll stop ranting now but I’m sure some of this can be used to position and promote the release.
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:32 pm
I am a guatemalan ubuntu user since 5.04, I feel really glad that our national bird will be featured on 12.10. A fact about the Quetzal is that for us it represents freedom sin it is told that Quetzal cannot live in captivity, so what a great name for Ubuntu since it gives us the freedom of using GNU/Linux.
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:36 pm
Seriously, the misspellings will kill us all… how about “quirky quail”
just a suggestion
*~8-)
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:49 pm
[...] effet, le PDG de Canonical a expliqué dans le billet d’annonce de son blog que de gros changements d’interface allaient être opérés mais le tout étalé [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:52 pm
[...] ComentáriosUbuntu 12.10 poderá ganhar novos ícones e tipografiaPostado em 23 de abril de 2012No mesmo post onde foi anunciado o nome do Ubuntu 12.10, Mark Shuttleworth deu a entender que teremos um novo [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:54 pm
[...] Shuttleworth announced on his blog today the codename for Ubuntu, following 12.04 Precise Pangolin. The official codename for Ubuntu [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 5:56 pm
[...] on new iconography, and perhaps even a new form factor taking flight,” wrote Shuttleworth in a blog post on Monday. “So brown is out and something colorful and light is called [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:02 pm
[...] Ubuntu 12.10 trägt den Namen des farbenprächtigen Vogels Quetzal. Marc Shuttleworth kündigte in seinem Blogpo neben Namen und Termin noch Änderungen am Design von Ubuntu an. Weitere technische Details stehen [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:08 pm
[...] telah mengeluarkan beberapa pelan perancangan untuk sistem operasi generasi baru itu kelak. Melalui blog rasmi beliau, Mark mengatakan yang mana Ubuntu 12.10 bakal diberikan nafas baru, bukan sahaja daripada tema, [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:22 pm
[...] his official blog, Mark Shuttleworth stated (related to paths and objectives that are to be adopted for Ubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal): [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:29 pm
[...] on new iconography, and perhaps even a new form factor taking flight,” wrote Shuttleworth in a blog post on Monday. “So brown is out and something colorful and light is called [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:30 pm
QUIXOTIC.
As a Latin American person, with Spainiard heritage I fell specially GOOD about you USED the term QUIXOTIC today.
Precisely today is the international day of the Book in honour to Cervantes the DON QUIXOTE’s Author..and in honour to Shakeaspeare and another autors. It is perfect that JUST TODAY..(Cervantes died on April 22 of 1616)
It just a NICE coincidence. NOTE: For any hispanic person the QUIXOTE has a lot o meaning.
April 23rd, 2012 at 6:49 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 7:06 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 8:03 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 8:19 pm
[...] Shuttleworth has announced just now the name of Ubuntu 12.10: Quantal Quetzal, “soon to be dressed in tessellated [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:05 pm
I think it is a good choice for the next cycle because, after all, Ubuntu *is* a very resplendently developed operating system. Gnome 3 and Unity 3D have this effervessence already built in and so it is exciting to imagine what Quantal will bring to the table.
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:14 pm
Gracias por escoger el Quetzal, saludos desde Guatemala.
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:17 pm
[...] nieuwe codenaam voor Ubuntu 12.10 is vrijgegeven door Canonical-oprichter Mark Shuttleworth. Traditioneel worden diersoorten gebruikt in de [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:20 pm
Thank you Mark…
new look will keep all critics mum and turns more users to ubuntu..
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:23 pm
[...] | Mark Shuttleworth | Email this | Comments View article: Ubuntu 12.10 gets christened Quantal Quetzal ahead of [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:25 pm
[...] adjetivo mais um animal em ordem alfabética para cada release, Mark Shuttleworth anunciou em seu blog pessoal que o Ubuntu 12.10 se chamará Quantal [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:38 pm
[...] Quality has a new name (Mark [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:53 pm
[...] Mark Shuttleworth represent his blog post title for announcing the codename for Ubuntu 12.10 with “Quality has a new name”. The 12.10 code name has been chosen in perspective of focusing on the quality of this release [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:56 pm
[...] Quality has a new name (Mark [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 9:58 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 10:00 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 10:03 pm
[...] pour la sortie proche de la nouvelle LTS, la version Ubuntu 12.04 alias Precise Pangolin, Mark annonce que le nom de code de la prochaine version Ubuntu 12.10 est Quantal Quetzal. En plus de la [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 10:13 pm
[...] adjetivo mais um animal em ordem alfabética para cada release, Mark Shuttleworth anunciou em seu blog pessoal que o Ubuntu 12.10 se chamará Quantal [...]
April 23rd, 2012 at 10:24 pm
@Vladimir: that’s a *great* coincidence!
April 23rd, 2012 at 10:27 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 10:33 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 11:00 pm
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April 23rd, 2012 at 11:11 pm
My Dad had 12 bee hives when he was younger, bees no problem,
April 23rd, 2012 at 11:20 pm
I wonder what it means for Ubuntu now that udev has been merged with systemd. A udev fork?
It seems that most distros are switching to systemd. And RHEL 7 will probably be systemd.
sys admins aren’t going to like switching between systemd and upstart as they manage multiple systems.
If only all distros could agree.
April 24th, 2012 at 12:00 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:15 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:23 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:45 am
I’d like to know if this cycle will solve the problem of non-touch-optimised apps? Is there something that can be done at toolkit level, or will you be looking at patching or writing new tablet/phone/TV apps?
April 24th, 2012 at 12:55 am
[...] foi anunciado o codenome do Ubuntu 12.10 QQ: Quantal Quetzal. E no mesmo post, Mark Shuttleworth dá dicas que nesta versão, finalmente, terá [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 1:07 am
[...] Linux operating system (version 12.04 – codenamed Precise Pangolin), Canonical’s founder Mark Shuttleworth announced on his blog the codename of the next version of Ubuntu to be released in October of this year. Version 12.10, [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 1:17 am
[...] Quality has a new name (Mark [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 2:01 am
[...] trata de Ubuntu 12.10, Quantal Quetzal, que llegará el 18 de octubre de este año al mercado. En esta ocasión Ubuntu abandonará el [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 2:04 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetzalcoatl
April 24th, 2012 at 3:20 am
[...] on new iconography, and perhaps even a new form factor taking flight,” wrote Shuttleworth in a blog post on Monday. “So brown is out and something colorful and light is called [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 4:12 am
Hi Mark…
I know what a Quetzal is.. is our national bird and also our currency… also is in our countrys crest of arms… So my question to you is… Where do you got the idea of the Quetzal..
thanks bud.
April 24th, 2012 at 4:17 am
[...] Mark Shuttleworth, um dos líderes do projeto e fundador da Canonical, seguiu uma tradição e anunciou em seu blog o codinome da versão seguinte, baseado como sempre em um adjetivo e o nome de um animal. O Ubuntu [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 4:30 am
[...] Mark Shuttleworth, um dos líderes do projeto e fundador da Canonical, seguiu uma tradição e anunciou em seu blog o codinome da versão seguinte, baseado como sempre em um adjetivo e o nome de um animal. O Ubuntu [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 5:10 am
[...] da beginnt Canonical bereits mit den Planungen für die folgende Version 11.10 12.10. In seinem Blog hat Ubuntu-Mäzen Mark Shuttleworth das neue Release getauft: Ubuntu 12.10 wird ein Quantal Quetzal [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 5:58 am
[...] Shuttleworth has announced the name of Ubuntu 12.10 which will be released in this October. It will be called as Quantal [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 7:03 am
[...] Shuttleworth ha annunciato il nome del prossimo rilascio della distribuzione di Canonical: Ubuntu 12.10 sarà Quantal Quetzal — una specie di [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 7:09 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 7:41 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 7:42 am
Cool. And a great read with different qualified uses of words starting with the letter q.
April 24th, 2012 at 8:02 am
[...] Shuttleworth ha annunciato il nome del prossimo rilascio della distribuzione di Canonical: Ubuntu 12.10 sarà Quantal Quetzal — una specie di [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 8:05 am
[...] pour la sortie proche de la nouvelle LTS, la version Ubuntu 12.04 alias Precise Pangolin, Mark annonce que le nom de code de la prochaine version Ubuntu 12.10 est Quantal Quetzal. En plus de la [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 8:06 am
[...] CEO of Canonical, Mark Shuttleworth writes in his blog talking about how 12.10 will prove it’s Quality. It is expected that Quantal Quetzal would [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 8:20 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 9:16 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 9:48 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 10:31 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 11:28 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 11:41 am
So humm, you claim that systemd had no tests and upstart had a “huge battery”. If I check systemd git vs. upstart bzr I see that systemd got 20 test programs and Upstart only 17. How do you explain this difference to what you say? This seems to be in crass opposition to what you say.
April 24th, 2012 at 11:52 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 11:56 am
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:31 pm
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:43 pm
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April 24th, 2012 at 12:57 pm
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April 24th, 2012 at 1:05 pm
[...] un aggettivo più un animale, in ordine alfabetico, per ogni release, Mark Shuttleworth ha annunciato sul suo blog personale che Ubuntu 12,10 sarà chiamato Quantal [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 2:03 pm
Last time I tried Upstart, it couldn’t start my script reliably. It would basically lock up. After much swearing, it wasn’t immediately obvious why upstart would be the culprit, I turned to the bug tracker to find out a bug had been reported long time ago:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/upstart/+bug/406397
Upstart can’t track the forks going on inside the started process reliably. As one commenter notes: “I’m wondering why this bug has a importance of “low”, as it renders using upstart for many daemons (including apache, postfix and others) as impossible.”
Maybe things have changed, but if they haven’t, Upstart isn’t ready for handling a native server boot. I had a look at the apache2 package for precise, and lo and behold, there’s a sysvinit file, but no upstart job.
Meanwhile, systemd has gone from idea to working implementation. It clearly makes sense for Ubuntu to stick with upstart for the time being, but if there’s little traction in it compared to the alternative, is it really a good long term strategy? Perhaps it would be wiser to wait and see.
April 24th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
[...] 12.10 se llamará Quantal Quetzal Ayer Mark Shuttleworth anunció en su blog que la versión 12.10 de Ubuntu se llamará Quantal Quetzal.Según la wikipedia“El Quetzal [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 2:29 pm
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April 24th, 2012 at 2:48 pm
I am unable to find the discussion of the Ubuntu Foundations Team on the upstart/systemd case. Presumably it would be in meeting logs or on Launchpad, but I could not find anything on https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-foundations-team or https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam
Could anyone point me in the right direction?
April 24th, 2012 at 2:52 pm
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April 24th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
Hello Mark,
An interesting take on the future direction of Ubuntu. May I just inquire to the pursuit of consistency amongst the prose you espouse for the Quetzal release? Will there be an emphasis to make the desktop act and behave as much as possible in a consistent manner as mentioned, for example will overlay scroll bars be used throughout the desktop? It is a glaring difference using Firefox after using GTK applications. Would you commit to also fixing the bugs that stop Libre Office (perhaps your most notable shipped application) looking so out of place in Ubuntu by not integrating in to the global menu and the HUD and having different print dialogues?
Little points make all the difference, the last 10% is the hardest to reach. Other inconsistencies such as gedit being the default application selection choice for a calendar, when one has not shipped for a year because of the removal of Evolution, which by the way was supposed to be brought back (calendar)with Thunderbird by integrating lightning. This bug has been known for over six months with no fix on the horizon. This shows little emphasis on being precise, which I thought was the driving force behind 12.04.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/841409
I applaud the work Canonical is doing but glaring inconsistencies bring the experience of using Ubuntu down. Lets hope this emphasis on quality continues Mark.
Please, if you have an opportunity take a look also at this bug report, it is crucial for Ubuntu adoption I believe:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578045
Best regards and thank you.
April 24th, 2012 at 3:45 pm
[...] Quantal Quetzal announcement. is all over the web, sort [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 3:55 pm
[...] So, as the next LTS (long term support) version of Ubuntu 12.04 is on the verge of its release (scheduled on 26th April), few hours ago Mark announced the code name of the 12.10 called “Quantal Quetzalu”. [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 4:17 pm
Great. Now will you PLEASE dump Unity and start making Ubuntu usable again?
April 24th, 2012 at 4:25 pm
[...] Mark Shuttleworth, acaba de anunciar el nombre en codigo de Ubuntu 12.10. [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 5:27 pm
Don’t forget to update the audio theme if you update the visual theme. They go together and create the whole experience. You dropped the ball on this the last time you moved to a new theme (the “Light” theme).
April 24th, 2012 at 5:37 pm
[...] Quality has a new name (Mark [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 6:43 pm
[...] Quality has a new name (Mark [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 6:54 pm
[...] Fuente: http://www.markshuttleworth.com [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 7:07 pm
[...] auf Barbapapa gestoßen. Hach. Ubuntu Übermorgen kommt der Precise Pangolin und dann im Herbst der Quantal Quetzal. Mit Ubuntu lerne ich vielleicht doch noch die Tierwelt kennen. Ich finde das luschtig. Hilarious [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 7:16 pm
[...] Le post de Mark Shuttleworth Distributions, News ← Boot-to-Gecko : les premiers Smartphones fin 2012 au Brésil Linus Torvalds adore son MacBook Air → Voulez-vous laisser un commentaire?0 Commentaires. /* */ [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 7:59 pm
[...] announcing the new name for 12.10. “Quantal Quetzal” is the name announced in a blog postingby Shuttleworth, who writes that it would be redundant to use “Quality” as part of the [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 8:01 pm
[...] adjetivo mais um animal em ordem alfabética para cada release, Mark Shuttleworth anunciou em seu blog pessoal que o Ubuntu 12.10 se chamará Quantal Quetzal. E o que diabos é um Quetzal? Segundo a Wikipédia, [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 8:54 pm
[...] ha desvelado Mark Shuttleworth en su blog, ya se ha dado a conocer el nombre que llevará Ubuntu 12.10, la nueva distribución de Canonical. [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 8:56 pm
systemd is actively developed, but upstart has a slowed its development.
systemd is used in many big distributions, e.g.: Fedora 15+ (which used Upstart), openSUSE 12.1+, Mandriva 2011+, Mageia 2+ (beta); and is available in many repositories across different distributions.
But Upstart is only used by default (in popular distributions) in Ubuntu and Chrome OS.
Only because you made a good product (invest money) in the past, when there was nothing open and better, it doesn’t mean you can not use systemd.
systemd is getting more and more relevant. Remember the udev merge, some days ago?
April 24th, 2012 at 10:04 pm
[...] Yesterday Mark Shuttleworth Announced Ubuntu next version name in his blog. [...]
April 24th, 2012 at 10:05 pm
Excited to see what the design team comes up with — especially the typography part.
Does this by any chance mean that, one day, Ubuntu will also have a light+dark theme like Gnome Shell (i.e. light theme for reading, dark for watching)? Or that Ubuntu will stop discriminating against all colors that aren’t orange or violet and take advantage of the whole color spectrum? Or that it will use a slightly flatter, more accessible theme?
April 24th, 2012 at 10:25 pm
What’s the deal with the spelling complaints? Doesn’t your editor allow you to create abbreviations for oft typed or tricky spellings? In Vim:
:abbr QQ Quantal Quetzal
of course, instead of QQ you could use 12.04 or UQQ or U1204 or… go hard.
April 25th, 2012 at 12:12 am
[...] to Shuttleworth’s blog post, one of the goals for the release is to refresh Ubuntu’s desktop theme. The last major visual [...]
April 25th, 2012 at 1:02 am
[...] Шаттлворт [Mark Shuttleworth] назвал кодовое имя преемника Ubuntu 12.04 LTS «Precise Pangolin». Ubuntu 12.10, выход которого [...]
April 25th, 2012 at 1:31 am
Would love to hear more about the collaboration with the Department of Typography at Reading!
April 25th, 2012 at 2:39 am
I believe quality, security, stability and techinical superiority or whatever of internal ubuntu is already acceptable (at minimum) and really appreciate the amount of work you and your team invested in.
But, is it too much if I ask for a pretty desktop without any tweaking?
I use other commercial OS(not linux) with default theme and never had a problem with that.
And, I think I am not the person with highest standard of beauty.
But whenever I see default ubuntu desktop, it doesn’t take much time to urged to tweak.
Is it strategic decision to force average John Doe to personalize their desktop?
If you want expand market share, treat average John Doe better could be better strategy.
Thank you.
April 25th, 2012 at 3:30 am
An enjoyable read. You’re a good writer Mark. Looking forward to the P shortly, then the Q.
Keep up the great work.
April 25th, 2012 at 5:31 am
[...] adjetivo mais um animal em ordem alfabética para cada release, Mark Shuttleworth anunciou em seu blog pessoal que o Ubuntu 12.10 se chamará Quantal [...]
April 25th, 2012 at 5:33 am
Mark, I have 2 machines, a Vista (I’m currently writing on) and Ubuntu. I’ve got still 10.04 installed since the usability has gone with Unity. Sorry, I can’t see any advantage in this new system to eliminate the desktop. All the Gnome3 (also Metro) idea isn’t mine.
April 25th, 2012 at 7:50 am
24V Inverter Hosa…
[...]Mark Shuttleworth » Blog Archive » Quality has a new name[...]…
April 25th, 2012 at 8:14 am
This post makes rather strong claims about the quality and approach of systemd based on a Ubuntu Foundations team review. Can you please share the review itself? The Ubuntu Foundations wiki page appears to have stopped linking to meeting notes in 2010.
April 25th, 2012 at 9:01 am
[...] quello che possiamo evincere dal lungo post scritto da Mark Shuttleworth, patron di Canonical, in occasione dell’annuncio del nuovo [...]
April 25th, 2012 at 9:06 am
[...] quello che possiamo evincere dal lungo post scritto da Mark Shuttleworth, patron di Canonical, in occasione dell’annuncio del nuovo [...]
April 25th, 2012 at 10:35 am
I love this directive:)
April 25th, 2012 at 11:10 am
Maybe something for ubuntu to look for in later releases
http://ethanschoonover.com/solarized
Not sure if this is 100% the right way to go, but revolution rather than evolution of console colours might be due.
Problem is, many applications rely on ANSI colour blue to be blue and so forth, trying to just change your terminal to solarized colours and many programs look just silly. You’d need each application to be tinkered to fit it. And there isn’t really way you can package this without violating policy, as you cannot change config of bunch of random software when adding new package. So distribution itself would need to have some sort of guideline on colours of terminals applications.
April 25th, 2012 at 12:19 pm
If you are going to focus on typography could you please somehow get gamma corrected compositing implemented in the X.Org server?
Font’s will NEVER look correct in Linux until this (quite serious) problem is fixed.
April 25th, 2012 at 2:10 pm
Exciting stuff – iconography, typography, colour – all things i love!
Looking forward to it.
April 25th, 2012 at 3:01 pm
[...] Quality has a new name [...]
April 25th, 2012 at 3:56 pm
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April 25th, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Please Mark, don’t change the fonts type! Lots of windows users love it when they see it in my laptop! But a few more themes and icons would be awessome! You and the all devs, keep up the awessome work!
Best regards,
Celso
April 25th, 2012 at 10:18 pm
[...] | Mark Shuttleworth | Email [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 2:25 am
I just new you were going to pick “Quickly Queer”…
April 26th, 2012 at 4:42 am
Sounds like a great pun. “Quantal Quetzal”? ¿Cuánto cuesta?
Looking forward to additional refinements in usability. (And a colorful T shirt.)
April 26th, 2012 at 4:56 am
[...] the founder and benevolent dictator of Canonical, has indicated that in the next release, devs will be refreshing and updating the user [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 7:00 am
[...] quello che possiamo evincere dal lungo post scritto da Mark Shuttleworth, patron di Canonical, in occasione dell’annuncio del nuovo [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 8:02 am
[...] Ubuntu 12.10 se llamará Quantal Quetzal [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 8:38 am
[...] versione di Ubuntu, quella siglata come 12.10, ha già un nome in codice ed una data, così come annunciato nel corso delle ultime ore da Mark Shuttleworth, il boss di Canonical, su cui, però, al momento le [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 9:04 am
[...] Ubuntu 14.10 to be named ‘Unpronounceable Unheard-of’ [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 9:30 am
[...] مارک در مورد ۱۲.۱۰ نوشته: [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 10:22 am
UK Metro 26/04/12 page 17. ‘Extinct bee is to make a comeback. A BUMBLEBEE extint in Britain for nearly 25 years is making a comeback. The short-haired Bombus subterraneus was last recorded in Kent in 1988. But with large numbers found in Skane, southern Sweden, conservationists plan to move some queens here and ‘restore a lost piece of the jigsaw for our countryside wildlife.’
April 26th, 2012 at 12:02 pm
[...] Leemos el anuncio en la web del máximo representante de la distribución, Mark Shuttleworth (http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1121). [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 6:00 pm
Thanks for all the work. I am very happy with the current state of ubuntu and thank you and the ubuntu team for all the very great work you are doing.
April 26th, 2012 at 7:24 pm
[...] Quetzal“. Anunțul a fost făcut prin intermediul unei postări pe blogul lui Mark Shuttleworth (creatorul [...]
April 26th, 2012 at 8:16 pm
[...] Quetzal“. Anunțul a fost făcut prin intermediul unei postări pe blogul lui Mark Shuttleworth (creatorul [...]
April 27th, 2012 at 1:49 am
SO excited about Ubuntu 12.10! Precise is awesome, now what is in store for 12.10? “For God so loved the world in this way: He gave His one and only Son, so that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” – John 3:16 HCSB
April 27th, 2012 at 1:56 am
[...] After researching this a little further, I found a blog entry that suggests that my thoughts about Linux are shared by people who influence [...]
April 27th, 2012 at 5:10 am
[...] founder Mark Shuttleworth revealed in a blog post that 12.10 has been handed the tongue-twisting moniker Quantal Quetzal, with the latter moniker [...]
April 27th, 2012 at 7:00 am
[...] quello che possiamo evincere dal lungo post scritto da Mark Shuttleworth, patron di Canonical, in occasione dell’annuncio del nuovo [...]
April 27th, 2012 at 12:26 pm
Awesome bird! Art can’t be democratic otherwise the vision would become blurred. Thanks again for clear statements – and congrats to Precise.
btw. watching this video about the status of the *nix-world proves that Ubuntu is on the right track to make it a better place. I’ve started with Hoary and never regret it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukd-Am2bbDo&feature=related
April 27th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
[...] deje atrás el estándar marrón por “algo más colorido y luminoso”. El directivo sudafricano también explica que habría sido redundante recurrir a la palabra “calidad” (escrito “quality” en inglés), [...]
April 27th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
What happens after “Zany Zebra” or whatever we get for zed?
I’ve been running Pangolin since beta2, apart from losing a few Perl packages and screwing up my replacement of MySQL with MariaDB it’s been rock solid. When I pulled todays updates there was a new kernel that needed a reboot – so I’m now up to date with the official release.
April 28th, 2012 at 3:33 pm
@waldi
The number of test programs and the number of tests are totally unrelated. Dig a little further.
April 28th, 2012 at 3:49 pm
@Colin
Ah yes, thank you for correcting me, I’ve fixed the post to use the preferred capitalization for systemd. Of course, I was more concerned about the megalomaniac ambition to absorb a vast array of functionality into process 1 (which nukes the system if it ever crashes), and the spaghetti code, combined with the absence of any significant test suite, but I’m delighted to hear that the systemd crowd at least are pedantic about capitalization. Great things may come of that, and we’ll review the decision after 14.04 LTS in the spirit of always staying open to goodness regardless of pedigree.
Mark