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diff --git a/2015-review.txt b/2015-review.txt index 3b800a7..6e4e33c 100644 --- a/2015-review.txt +++ b/2015-review.txt @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ And Ubuntu Mobile didn't fare a whole lot better. While there are a couple devic Ubuntu also fell well short of its stated goal to have 200 million users by the end of the year. Speaking at a developer summit back in May 2011, Ubuntu creator Mark Shuttleworth said "[Our] goal is 200 million users of Ubuntu in four years." Alas the stats currently on Canonical's <a href="https://insights.ubuntu.com/about">website</a> currently claim a mere 40 million users. -Still, if you time travelled back to 1993 and told early Debian users that eventually 40 million people would be using a downstream project, to say nothing of Debian itself, no one would believe you and you'd probably be laughed right off the mailing list. Which is to say, Ubuntu might have missed its goal, but it's efforts are impressive nonetheless. +Still, if you time travelled back to 1993 and told early Debian users that eventually 40 million people would be using a downstream project, to say nothing of Debian itself, no one would believe you and you'd probably be laughed right off the mailing list. Which is to say, Ubuntu might have missed its goal, but its efforts are impressive nonetheless. Luckily for users outside the Ubuntu ecosystem 2015 had an embarrassment of riches. @@ -18,9 +18,9 @@ Fedora found its groove again with Fedora Next and turned out its most impressiv OpenSUSE had a similarly exciting year with its new Leap project. The core of Leap is SUSE Enterprise Linux, but the userland applications are maintained by openSUSE. In other words, Leap delivers the best of both worlds -- the stable underpinnings of an enterprise distro with the up-to-date packages of openSUSE. It also means that the openSUSE project doesn't have to develop all that low level stuff and can focus on the things that make openSUSE different than SUSE. -Linux Mint put out of series of impressive releases this year and, thanks in part to its decision to stick with Ubuntu 14.04 throughout it's release cycle has been able to focus on its Cinnamon desktop without worrying about whatever changes Ubuntu was making under the hood (notice a theme here?). In fact Cinnamon is arguably the best desktop available right now, an impressive feat considering the size of its development team and that Cinnamon is not yet four years old. +Linux Mint put out of series of impressive releases this year and, thanks in part to its decision to stick with Ubuntu 14.04 throughout its release cycle has been able to focus on its Cinnamon desktop without worrying about whatever changes Ubuntu was making under the hood (notice a theme here?). In fact Cinnamon is arguably the best desktop available right now, an impressive feat considering the size of its development team and that Cinnamon is not yet four years old. -Distros weren't the only exciting things happening in Linux this year. Linux desktops had a banner year as well. The KDE project release a major update and introduced Plasma 5 and the new Breeze UI. With its flat, "modern" look, Plasma 5's Breeze gives much of KDE a refreshing new feel that makes it look significantly less like a desktop that just crawled out of 1995. Under the hood there's been a lot of effort devoted to speeding things up with OpenGL-based graphics as well. +Distros weren't the only exciting things happening in Linux this year. Linux desktops had a banner year as well. The KDE project released a major update and introduced Plasma 5 and the new Breeze UI. With its flat, "modern" look, Plasma 5's Breeze gives much of KDE a refreshing new feel that makes it look significantly less like a desktop that just crawled out of 1995. Under the hood there's been a lot of effort devoted to speeding things up with OpenGL-based graphics as well. The GNOME project did not have such an exciting year, but it did continuing to roll out its suite of integrated core applications, with a couple new ones like Calendar and Maps. |