This week we got a fun update from our traveling team member Ivanka! While passing through Dawson City in northern Canada Ivanka and Nick met Chalsie Warren and she recognised the Ubuntu stickers on their bike! This got me wondering whether we can track down the most extreme users starting with the most northerly Ubuntu user.
Do you know that person?
Are you that person?
Get in touch and let’s fill up this map! :D
The link at the top is broken :)
Thank you. Fixed the link!
I take your Dawson City, Canada (64° North) and raise you Jussi Schultink in Oulu, Finland (65° North).
Do I hear 66° anyone? Going, going…
There’s a couple thousand habitants at Svalbard that is located between 74° and 81°. It’s a decent guess that someone there could be using Ubuntu.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard
Please do a blog post about the changes/improvements planned for Unity in 11.10.
In hazelton, B.C. (55N 127.6W). You’ll be passing through here if you’re going south via highway 37. If, not – you should. If you come through Moricetown (20 miles east of hazelton) July 22, there will be a salmon bbq at the roadside to celebrate the return of the salmon (noonish). No cost – just bring your bib
I won’t use unity though.
Hello Walter, I’ve emailed the text from your post above to Ivanka and Nick (contact details are on the Boots, Boats & Bikes blog itself). Hopefully they’ll be in touch if passing nearby on their honeymoon.
Regarding Unity. How long did you try Unity for? Was it Unity-2D or Unity-3D? Was there any specific item, or action that you didn’t find pleasant? Would you like help filing a bug against Unity so that it can be looked into (and hopefully improved)?
Santaji: To the best of my knowledge, a lot of the Unity-specific focus for Ubuntu 11.10 is around making Unity rock-solid at the moment during the build-up to the next release (I’m looking at the list of the top bugs in Unity at the moment).
I agree that it’s an interesting subject though, and it may be possible to get write-up done in the next couple of months. Are there areas of Unity or the Unity design process that you’re specifically interested in?
I’m not sure if they will hang around till July 22, but if they do, the salmon fishing in this area is outstanding. In the late summer, the steelhead fishing is a major attraction for fishermen from around the world. Once you hook into a big spring salmon or steelhead, you’re hooked:]
As for unity, it just seems it’s designed for a tablet pc. I have a large monitor – and want a larger one yet, but unity is designed for tiny monitors. I consider gnome 2.32 the best de available, and unity isn’t anywhere close to that – especially in terms of stability (never mind being a totally different ui).
Perhaps canonical could have kept 2.32 for 11.04, and called unity a alpha version for feedback. By forcing users to use unity when it isn’t ready seems to be causing a major backlash against ubuntu. Canonical is abandoning gnome 2.32 users, and seems very blase about it. Perhaps some of the backlash against unity/ubuntu is over the top, but canonical seems to be mismanaging this issue. The ubuntu name now seems ironic, given the feelings many users have expressed against unity.
I’ll try unity again in 11.10, but for now it’s too unstable even for home use. I won’t use gnome 3 for the same reasons.
I feel the launcher and the dash need some more refinement. And I’m just curious about what changes/improvements will be made to the Unity user interface in the future. I think the Gnome 3 shell currently has a better user experience, And i hope Unity will be as good as it by the next LTS.
Well not necessarily a fan but we had visitors (2) this month from arrow Alaska which is 71 degrees north. Most northerly in the US
oh, and one from Svalbard. which is a minimum 74 degrees north!