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Ubuntu wins “Best Desktop Solution” at Linux World Expo 2008

fabianrodriguez.com — I just wanted to extended a huge “thank you!” to all of the Ubuntu community. Today Ubuntu won the “Best Desktop Solution” Product Excellence Award at LinuxWorld Conference and Expo 2008 in San Francisco, California for a second consecutive year.

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  • trollick, on 08/06/2008, -2/+70Odds against Ubuntu winning something at Linux expo were astronomical.
  • Vadi0, on 08/06/2008, -7/+43Congrats to Ubuntu for achieving this!
  • tripzero, on 08/06/2008, -3/+35millions? billions? you are definitely selling Ubuntu short. It's not hard to see this happen if you take into consideration the worldwide effort that all has to come together to form something like Ubuntu. Take into consideration the wealth of community support and upstream application development including GNOME, Debian, the Linux Kernel and thousands of other applications. Ubuntu is where the best of open source comes together. The effort is unparalleled in the proprietary world. Although Ubuntu isn't unique in this, they have done a great job at putting it all together.

    Congrats Ubuntu team and community and to the entire open source community.
  • leerayIG88, on 08/06/2008, -7/+36I'll have sex with a penguin just for linux.
  • ALink2ThePast, on 08/06/2008, -0/+24It took way too many comments for someone to point this out
  • inactive, on 08/06/2008, -8/+31In other news, Vista wins "Best Desktop Solution" at Microsoft World Expo 2008.

    But seriously, I'm all for Linux but is this really news?
  • stmiller, on 08/06/2008, -1/+18Best Security Solution
    • Astaro Internet Security: Astaro Security Gateway 7.2

    Hmm Leo and Steve were right...
  • gueritabonita, on 08/06/2008, -4/+20Congrats, Ubuntu! As someone who had gone Windows-free for two years and having to return to using it (for school), I am being reminded of how great the user experience for Ubuntu really is.

    Thank goodness for dual-booting.
  • keeganspeck, on 08/06/2008, -1/+16Didn't you hear? It's free, you don't have to do that anymore!
  • lijamez, on 08/06/2008, -2/+17"It seems like it is used mostly only by those who have no knowledge and are simply looking for a Windows replacement, and really that is the only crowd that it is really designed to support."

    You mean the vast majority of computer users?
  • seaners, on 08/06/2008, -8/+21In other news...

    Mac OS X Leopard wins 'best desktop solution' at Macworld
  • apikoros, on 08/06/2008, -4/+17In other news, Jesus wins "Best Overall Messiah" in Christian Expo 2008.
  • DivineMonkey, on 08/06/2008, -1/+12And i'll watch.................Just for linux of course.
  • anshuman, on 08/06/2008, -3/+14Distro with most rabid users not wasting time to troll on the internets.
  • inactive, on 08/06/2008, -0/+9New and improved Linux, now with Free Penguin Sex?
  • danwallace, on 08/06/2008, -2/+11Yay. I understood a nerdy reference. Can I have a cookie?
  • LittleLORDevil, on 08/06/2008, -2/+10Make way to the front page.
  • Zaetha, on 08/06/2008, -0/+7No more penguin sex? Ok, that's it! I'm moving to BSD!
  • TheZorch, on 08/06/2008, -7/+14Wow, I expected way more Linux bashing trolls than I see here. Its so sad that they can't accept the reality that Linux will never go away and it will one day become mainstream. Saying that it will never become mainstream only shows how ignorant you are. Given time and more Microsoft ***** ups and Linux will expand. And from the looks of it Windows 7 is going to be just as huge a ***** up as Vista. They never learn.
  • frostedflakes, on 08/06/2008, -2/+9Duh.
  • HonestAbe, on 08/07/2008, -1/+8Ubuntu noobs do not install things from source. Please.
  • ModernDayDarwin, on 08/06/2008, -0/+6I could probably ramble off examples of times I'm forced to open a command line and type something, but I'm sure someone would gladly point out to me a not-so-obvious way of doing what I was intending to do. I will however use one of my favorite quotes from the great-ubunut-girlfriend-experiment.

    "She tried double-clicking the file, and Ubuntu just asked her what she’d like to do with it. The option “run” results in it crashing. No clue was given to her that she should open up a terminal and type ‘./flashplayer-installer’. To be fair, there are links to installation instructions, but the average person acclimatised to Windows is not expecting to have to read complex information before installing a program – all they need to do is double click it."

  • diggmaddy, on 08/06/2008, -1/+7Guys, guys! Ubuntu is doing exactly what it's supposed to do. Offer the general masses an option other than Windows or Mac. Most non-techie computer users don't even understand what an Operating system is, let alone know if there are any options other than Windows.

    Ubuntu is doing a great job in spreading awareness of a free, open source, operating system. Now tell me, how many of these non-techie computer users out there would EVER need to compile a C++ program on their computers? Yes, those are the people Ubuntu caters to the needs of. If there is no chance that it might be used by the Average Joe, it's not necessary to be included by default.

    And, for somebody who needs gcc on a linux box, it's just a few words in bash to install it. I don't understand why do you feel Ubuntu is overrated. There are no mandatory guidelines that every Linux distro has to be geared and tailored to the programmers/geeks/techies.

    That being said, Fedora is awesome :)
  • UncleTimmy, on 08/06/2008, -2/+8I haven't been using linux for all that long, around 6-7 months, but I was first told to use Ubuntu and it's seemed to have paid off. I've used a few more of the other popular distros (Mandriva for instance), but I could easily tell Ubuntu was a cut above the rest.

    and yeah, what mizike said is right on.
  • captZEEbo, on 08/06/2008, -0/+6can you explain some uses for GCC to a ubuntu noob?
  • HonestAbe, on 08/06/2008, -1/+7You're not funny anymore. Sorry bro.
  • ModernDayDarwin, on 08/06/2008, -1/+6My first thought when I read this was: "Were there any other options." I'm all for stuff getting props, especially in the field of usability and interaction design (guess what I do for a living..), but there isn't much competition unless you look outside Linux. The only thing that keeps Ubuntu from becoming a really truly awesome user experience is the command line. When your users are forced to open a terminal for the command line, your usability automatically fails.
  • twigboy, on 08/06/2008, -0/+5Preaching to the converted.
  • Reformer81, on 08/06/2008, -0/+5Bleh... that argument is getting old... and inaccurate.
  • TiberiusDRAIG, on 08/06/2008, -2/+7I love how you pointed out the lack of anti-Linux trolls here and then went on to have a go at 'them' (presumably the imaginary trolls in your head) anyway. Thanks, made me smile. For that, I'll digg you up =P

    Oh and Ubuntu deserves all the credit it gets. I've given Ubuntu to my friends at universities, colleges, I've given it to my mother, my girlfriend and every single person loved it and was able to get to grips with it pretty quickly. Well played.
  • Reformer81, on 08/06/2008, -0/+5Uhm, actually, sir... Linux is just a kernel. Ubuntu is an operating system BASED ON the Linux kernel. Now that is interesting.
  • damonic, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4that explains why dead penguins are washing up on the coast of Brazil. http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824 ...

  • depro9, on 08/06/2008, -1/+5Bet they keep winning for a long time. ;)
  • grungegbunny, on 08/06/2008, -13/+17WORST GAME EVER!1!!
  • LucasVB, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4That's great and all, but can we please drop this annoying business-euphemism usage of the word "solution"? It's an operating system, for ***** sake.
  • Chris_F, on 08/06/2008, -1/+5no no no. bad seaners. there are plenty of other distributions that could and should have won. Ubuntu is GNU/Linux. Linux isn't a product made by Ubuntu. You got to get out of that bad Microsoft/Apple mindset.
  • ejhdigdug, on 08/06/2008, -0/+4Sure, there's great games that are every bit as good as the mainstream games and not at all rip offs, like:

    Cuake, Blocky Puzzle Fall, and Dread
  • GMorgan, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Nethack FTW!
  • bratterscain, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3I have pretty much every popular FPS that came out in the past two years and still my favorite, regardless of Linux compatibility is Quake Wars: ET, then second, Enemy Territory. Quake Wars has been considered meh, but I love it and I can switch to my Kubuntu partition and play it as well. Also, UT 2004 is Linux compatible and another favorite.
  • javaroast, on 08/06/2008, -1/+4Oh damn somebody forgot to send the memo to seaners that Ubuntu won at Macworld too! Get that taken care of ASAP.
  • FranMichaels, on 08/07/2008, -1/+4That's an easy one. People who don't compile software and stick with packages from the repos or plain ol' .debs.

    I love compiling, so I do a
    sudo apt-get install build-essential

    Getting one meta package should not be a deterrent to using a distro. If so, one might as well complain about getting build dependencies the first time you build xyz app... ;)
  • Chris_F, on 08/06/2008, -11/+14Ubuntu is more like OpenWindows. Besides the fact that I think it one of the worst distros (any distribution of GNULinux that doesn't include GCC and other CORE applications by default is a total failure) but the fact that it seems to attract the wrong crowd. Most of the people who use Ubuntu think that Ubuntu = Linux and Linux = Ubuntu. It seems like it is used mostly only by those who have no knowledge and are simply looking for a Windows replacement, and really that is the only crowd that it is really designed to support. If you know anything you'll be pulling your head out and cursing at Ubuntu.

    For the more technically inclined or those looking for something more robust I suggest Fedora Core 9. FC has come a long way and is getting better every day. The latest version 9 is actually quite astonishing in my opinion. If they keep it up I see FC becoming the most dominant distribution. The amount off support is great, the package handler is the best I've used, driver and package support is probably #1, and it's built very robustly for people of any skill level.

    For a live CD environment I suggest SLAX. I dont think I've ever seen a more powerful fully featured LIVE distro that could fit on a pocket sized CD.

    This is all just my opinion. If you don't agree with it then continue to use what gets along with you.
  • TiberiusDRAIG, on 08/06/2008, -1/+4...but you've not actually used Ubuntu, right?
  • HonestAbe, on 08/07/2008, -1/+4Ubuntu is a shining example of what Linux can be, the leading example of a real OS based on Linux. "Traditional Linux" is useless to the average human being, and will continue to be the playground of developers writing for other developers, with a corresponding 0.1% market share.

    Please, guys, stick to Gentoo or Slackware or something and stop polluting Ubuntu with your command-line worshiping idiocy. We want to create a distro that real people can actually use to get real-life things done. If you don't like the way Ubuntu works, IGNORE IT and use something else.
  • dougle, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3Congrats to Ubuntu, keep the standard high for Ibex.
  • inactive, on 08/06/2008, -5/+8I agree with the first part. Ubuntu is really overrated and the fact that it doesnt include GCC by default is retarded. Debian does this too I think. Who the hell doesn't want GCC and make as part of a base install?
  • Reformer81, on 08/06/2008, -0/+3Thank goodness indeed... I'm a gamer :) (but I only boot into Windows for Camfrog and gaming)
  • m0deth, on 08/07/2008, -0/+3Amen brother, on my lappy, the only reason I use VirtualBox with XP vdi is I can't take Pidgin's interface and lack of features much longer, somehow, I've fallen for digsby... but I couldn't wait til they finished Linux support+the ubuntu wait time til in rep., so I have XP just for that and whatever may not run in WINE.
    XP on my desktop is mostly only used for DirectX only games, most other tasks have migrated to ubuntu 64 as it just runs like 'budda'.
  • likwidfuzion, on 08/06/2008, -0/+2Manguin pandemic?
  • ModernDayDarwin, on 08/07/2008, -1/+3So basically what you're saying is they like to make things hard on purpose? They don't make it hard on Mac OS, and it's even Unix based.
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