Ubuntu
Aug 8th, 2006 by jeffmcneill
I buntu, you buntu, y’all buntu…
Yes, on the open source front, Ubuntu is getting press about how wonderful it is as a desktop… and that it is the threat to RedHat (that SUSE is not).
Plus I really like the desktop choices that Ubuntu provides.
The 1-click installs and easier-of-use are real advantages to those who are considering migrating to linux because of all the open-source apps that are now available. Yes, that is the reason I trot out when people wonder why I use windows. Apps. Gets the job done. (And I do know how to use the windows command line.)
Wow! Someone else knows how to use the Windows Command Line?
Ubuntu may be getting the press at the moment, but I think Suse will lead the charge into the corporate desktop environment. What would be beneficial to K/Ubuntu, Mepis, and Debian would be to take off with Yast, since Novell has put it under the GPL. Suse was the first Linux distro that I used, and would have still been using it right now if they didn’t screw up the 10.1 version of it. So, I switched to Mepis. (I’m a bit of a KDE fan. I don’t have anything against Gnome, it’s just that KDE was the first environment I was exposed to on Linux, and I know most of the ins and outs of it to get it to do what I want. As long as the command line and Bash are there, though, I don’t see why I wouldn’t be able to work in Gnome…)
Anyway, have to agree with you that apt-get is an awesome utility! I wonder why it took Mark Shuttleworth to create Ubuntu for people to realize what an awesome distribution Debian was?