What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

[max bianco]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>
I know Ubuntu keeps one long term release and then at least one short term.
The next major long term release is due out soon.


Max
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