Re: What's all the hype over Ubuntu?

[Alan Cox <alan lxorguk ukuu org uk>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:18:58 -0400
Arch Willingham <arch tuparks com> 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.

I guess because it has a less technical focus - try it. One nice thing
about Linux is you don't have to buy different hardware and new software
licences to try a few and see what suits you best.

Alan