On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:22 -0500, Dana Olson wrote: > Just as an FYI to those of you who might be interested in this... > > I have it on good authority that Mark Shuttleworth has been working > towards hosting a multimedia-oriented derivative of Ubuntu, set for > Dapper+1 release time. > > I should know more on Monday, after his conference call. > > My own speculation is that it will be called "Mubuntu" given this: > > Domain name: MUBUNTU.COM > > Administrative Contact: > Troup, James hostmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Dana Arrrgh.... why? Why not just make regular Ubuntu usable for multimedia? This fragmentation is idiotic and will destroy Linux. Linux as an audio platform will be a joke as long as a customized distro is required to use it. OSX and Windows don't need a "Multimedia edition" why should Linux? Lee
