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Ubuntu has went from 0 to position #8 on distrowatch in the last month thats some news IMO... The mailing lists are crawling with users..
It's not as if Ubuntu is some major step forward, or different in such a way as to make it especially news worthy.
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Don't get me wrong, it's great it's free free, and that they'll send you a free CD, or so it says.
A formalised "Code of Conduct" sounds a good idea, but is that any different from the social contracts other distros have formalised?
The LDFLAGS they set which is the basis for the excellent start up times is a neat trick, and certainly unique in my limited experience of binary based distros, but if it's so great someone else will copy it.
How is another debian based distro going to change the face of GNU/Linux?
Perhaps I'm slightly biased, as a die-hard Gentoo user, I just don't get the point.
p.s. most of my apps now start as fast as lightning, thanks Ubuntu
Yes, it's that good. It's still growing but it's worth a try.
This is the first distro that has even come close to competing with Windows while still having the Linux feel/flavor. I don't know if that was their intention but usually the best stuff is so good that it far exeeds its original intention.
One of the main things I like about Ubuntu is that the base install doesn't include ten thousand various apps and fill the application menus with thousands of icons and other choices that I'll never use.
If you look at the Windows model, when you need some application, you realize you need it, install it, then it shows up in the menus. Too many Linux distros install too much crap all at once. I end up never using the GUI because all the menus are cluttered with crap I never use. Ubuntu provides a clean office-oriented base install without too much crap. I can then install the crap I want from Ubuntu/Debian's huge repository.
The ratio of people to cake is too big
They have only made a prerelease. Warty Warthog is going to be released on October 20th. http://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/WartyWarthog_2fRelease Schedule
Newsgroup:
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
Web interface:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
But distrowatch just measures how many times people visit the Ubuntu distrowatch page to find more information. Arguably, the many articles on Ubuntu would direct more people to find out information, thereby increasing the distrowatch position.
So if you do a news article about the ranking jump, you'd essentially be doing an article about the fact that there have been a lot of Ubuntu articles recently.
I've come for the woman, and your head.