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Ubuntu: Desktop Linux's Success Story
Johhny writes "What is it about Ubuntu that has enabled it to grow so much? This distribution has clearly built on Debian's success but it has more than a few other things going for it. Ubuntu has become one of the most popular versions of desktop Linux despite its many differences from some of the other popular versions out there, including its scheduled releases and its counterpart, Kubuntu. The article takes a look at this distribution and tries to find out how Ubuntu defied the odds. This article generated a really informative comments page at OSnews."
... two hunters meet to discuss their predicament:
Ubuntu: Did you hear that? They took my name and made a Linux distro out of it! It's time to sue!
Jumanji: Hell yeah! That's what I've been saying all along!
This article generated a really informative comments page at OSnews.
I mean, c'mon, user-friendly Debian variants are all over the place, but that hasn't happened before!
I think the real success story here is the presence of an informative comments page at OSnews
Okay, so a philosopher, a philologist, and a philatelist walk into a bar...
I've only been using linux for about two years and I recently switched over to Ubuntu (I used Fedora and Suse previously). At first the warm tones of the human theme and the gnome desktop threw me off, but now I quite like them, and even if I hadn't it's not hard to get around them. There are two reasons I prefer ubuntu:
1.It is well thought out. Not only did I find ubuntu easy to setup the way I wanted it, but it had a lot of nice added touches like sound effects. The ubuntu website makes it pretty easy to get any information you need.
2. What really appealed to me about linux in the first place was the idea of people freely helping and empowering one another, without being reliant, or not as directly reliant on corporate interests. Ubuntu seems to capture that spirit very nicely. I like the idea of a distro striving to be equally accessible to people of different regions and with differing physical abilities.
That said, if they shot the three happy hugging people in the togetherness logos I wouldn't get upset.
The first rule of Gentoo is you don't talk about Gentoo...
The second rule of Gentoo is you don't talk about Gentoo...
I see a lot of new faces here tonight, which means a lot of you have been breaking the first two rules of Gentoo...