Thursday, 12 April 2007

Ubuntu's New Linux Sports Debugging Tool

"Feisty Fawn" version of Ubuntu Linux is going to be released on April 19. Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux supporter has made known the various facts that can come crumbling down when things don’t go as scheduled. Canonical Chief Executive Mark Richard Shuttleworth...

"Feisty Fawn" version of Ubuntu Linux is going to be released on April 19. Canonical, the Ubuntu Linux supporter has made known the various facts that can come crumbling down when things don’t go as scheduled.

Canonical Chief Executive Mark Richard Shuttleworth said, Feisty Fawn has software that sends debugging information. This aims to help developers to clamp dilemmas that are the reason behind applications crashes.

"There are potentially millions of users of an application on Ubuntu, but they don't have a relationship with us or upstream developers," Shuttleworth said. "If we can connect those two groups more effectively, it's good for both of them."

"We've built infrastructure which allows us to detect whenever an application crashes...gather detailed information like a stack trace and ask the user if he's willing to give it back to us," Shuttleworth, the second space tourist who spent eight days at International Space Station in 2002 said.

"I'd be betting on Feisty +2. That's about the right time frame," Shuttleworth said.

"This desktop bling stuff, while easy to trivialise, is an area where people can come up with fundamentally exciting new ideas," Shuttleworth, the first African national to fly to space said. "If we can turn that on for free software users, we can unleash that creative flood."

Canoniocal has also rolled out a beta version of its Launchpad service. This initiative is to make open-source programming methods a better match for Microsoft.

Launchpad is a web site that gives a base for Ubuntu's cooperative programming projects, with features for tracking bugs, managing source code repositories, and planning new features.

"Microsoft has an efficient core infrastructure that allows developers from one part of the company to connect with a developer on another," Shuttleworth said. "In a free software world, if we want to match that, we have to crank up the level of collaboration."