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Ubuntu Turns 10
Scott James Remnant, now Technical Lead on ChromeOS, was a Debian developer before that. That's how he became involved from the beginning (becoming Developer Manager, and then serving on the Technical Board) on the little derivative distribution that Mark Shuttleworth decided to make of Debian Unstable, and for which the name Ubuntu was eventually chosen. On this date in 2004, Ubuntu 4.10 -- aka Warty Warthog, or just Warty -- was released, and Remnant has shared a detailed, nostalgic look back at the early days of the project that has (whatever else you think of it ) become one of the most influential in the world of open source and Free software. I was excited that Canonical sent out disks that I could pass around to friends and family that looked acceptably polished to them in a way that Sharpie-marked Knoppix CD-ROMs didn't, and that the polish extended to the installer, the desktop, and the included constellation of software, too.
When you're down to calling those companies "mainstream," that's just sad. And the only reason they support Linux is because they make expert systems software designed to run on Linux server farms and workstations. If you think that's "mainstream," you're high.
"Hey kiddo, how did school go today?"
"Great mom, but I couldn't wait to get home and fire up Maya for some 3D animation rendering on the Linux workstation!"
"Sounds like fun."
"And later, I'm going over to Jimmy's house. He's running a worldwide gold futures analytic analysis in MATLAB on his server farm!"
"Well, have funny, sweetie."