Being a Geek Dad
I have been sitting on writing about what I feel about being a geeky dad for quite some time. My daughter turned three not too long ago and she has begun to find interest in what both me and her mother do on computers and other things as well.
As a father, I want my kid to take interest in things that I like. I think all parents want to do it so they have some common ground with their kids. I see that with how I am raising my daughter so far.
Ubuntu Default Desktop for 11.04 Fails Users
There is a lot of buzz going on about the upcoming Natty release.
Mark Shuttleworth announced that they will be using Unity instead of Gnome 3 as the default desktop interface for Ubuntu 11.04. I have voiced my opinion about it while testing out the Alpha release of Natty. I've tried the latest Beta release this weekend and my opinion is the same. Unity to me is a step backwards, it's very convoluted to navigate and personally I would like to be able to at least be able to customize it somewhat.
No word on if they will return to Gnome default for future releases as far as I can tell, but this really interests me that maybe Canonical should look into what the developers found about their flagship product's upcoming release. The following was a report on the tests performed by Matthew Paul Thomas and Charline Poirier with a variety of users. Read on for the report: