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Ubuntu Turns 10

Posted by timothy on from the ten-years-is-a-long-time dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Unity is rubbish. Systemd is rubbish by NotDrWho · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Linux advocates say they want Linux to take over the desktop and become more supported and accepted, but anytime some distro gets even close to breaking into the mainstream, they all turn against it.

    Discuss

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    SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
  2. Re:Unity is rubbish. Systemd is rubbish by i.r.id10t · · Score: 5, Insightful

    In my case, Ubuntu was very close and 10.04 was working great for some very non-technical people who wanted to check facebook and gmail and write the occasional paper.

    Then the gnome3/unity crap started....

    Now they are very happy with Mint and the MATE desktop.

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    Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos
  3. Happy Birthday by zoward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Between Unity and Mir, it's considered cool to Bash Ubuntu these days, but even their most stalwart detractors have to admit they raised the bar for desktop Linux from the first day of their release. There's a reason it's become both a popular distro and a popular base for derivatives.

    Thank you, Ubuntu, and Happy Birthday.

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    "Can't you see that everyone is buying station wagons?"
  4. The OS that wasn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Yep, everybody hates Ubuntu these days, the only linux distro that had a chance gets hated into oblivion. Open source is anti success. They did everything to stop them from ever getting market share.