What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

[Les Mikesell]

Arch Willingham wrote:
> I first started dabbling with Linux about three years ago. The way I 
> ended up using Fedora was it was the first link I clicked on that worked 
> (I think it was FC3). Since that time, I have around fifteen machines 
> running it. All of them run FC8 except my laptop which, as of yesterday, 
> is running the beta of FC9.
> 
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> 
> With that said, I have never seen any other version of Linux running 
> except Fedora. What’s all the hype around Ubuntu? I realize I could 
> download an install a copy but I never really saw any reason to since 
> FCx seems to work great.
> 
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> 
> I’m not trying to start a battle of which is better…just trying to get 
> an idea of why its seems so popular.

Usability is a priority for them and they have a budget to make some 
improvements.  But, they haven't been through a really hard upgrade 
transition (like a major kernel number) yet so it's hard to make a long 
term comparison as to whether it is really easier to keep things running.

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   Les Mikesell
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