arstechnica.com — Today is the fifth anniversary of the Ubuntu Linux distribution. To celebrate the past five years of brown, we decided to have a look at five ways that Ubuntu has helped make the open source Linux operating system more human.
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javaroastOct 21, 2009
@zip00 please don't start with the obscurity mythology. It is simply inaccurate. With the number of servers running linux there is a huge incentive to hack linux. And it is being hacked. Put a linux system unsecured on the internet and you will see the hack attempts rolling in.You are correct that no OS is perfectly secure, but completely inaccurate in the rest of your comment.
rpgmasterOct 22, 2009
"Now we're closing out the first decade of the 2000s, and Linux's desktop marketshare is still measured in less than 1%."Actually, we're at 4%Also, that dude was crazy to say Linux was doing that good back then, now its actually possible!
ibuprofaneOct 22, 2009
Until Ubuntu (or any flavor of *nix) can create a build that requires absolutely no use of the terminal window whatsoever, then it's not ready for average users.It seems that every year or so I end up installing Ubuntu for one reason or another (most recently last week) and inevitably something always gets messed up where the only solution is a fix through terminal. I'm not a novice; I know Linux and use it when I need to, but asking an average consumer to make manual edits to .conf files isn't acceptable IMO.Last week I installed the latest Ubuntu UNR 9.04 image on a fresh netbook. Once a user uses the GUI interface to switch to Desktop mode, all hell breaks loose and the next time the user reboots, they will have no taskbars or titlebars. If the user is knowledgeable enough to finally get to the terminal, and has a second computer with which to look up the workaround to the bug (not easy to find), and hasn't given up already, then they can finally start doing stuff.This kind of stuff is enough for most users to just give up and go back to what they were using.
phate8263Oct 22, 2009
@taibo"and realized it can't do anything windows can" The faq is about misinformation spread about Ubuntu by trolls. Not genuine concerns.
mreloadsOct 23, 2009
Although mine is Fedora 11, it also looks very well.<a class="user" href="http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6765/sh1u.png" rel="nofollow">http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/6765/sh1u.png</a>
jv2kOct 23, 2009
True but by comparison XP is a very dated OS. Yea you can find work arounds to make it look prettier and thanks to netbooks and vista's reputation it'll be updated for more years to come, but those themes are a pain in the ass to install and ubuntu is a current OS.Honestly you could make the argument that XP is better than Windows7 and Snow Leopard based on the same criteria.