Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 16th Sep 2004 00:28 UTC
The Debian-based Ubuntu Linux was unveiled today and a preview release is available for download. Ubuntu uses Gnome 2.8, kernel 2.6.8.1, OOo 1.1.2 and comes with a text-based, but dead-easy, installation procedure. Ubuntu has disabled the root user (sudo is used, same way as OSX does it) and it endorses the "less is more" philosophy. There are still bugs on the preview release, but the team welcomes feedback via their mailing list. Read more for an interview with team member Jeff Waugh (also of Debian and Gnome fame). Screenshots also included, and more are here to be found.
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How stable will it end up being? I seems Gnome always gets the second-rate treatment...but it looks so cool [I have a thing for underdogs!]
I like the comment about Small talk too...there's a lot more interesting stuff to do than copy MS right now. The coup de grace would be to build your whole distro around something like GNUSmalltalk scripting for EVERYTHING...that would give it the "spit-n-polish" people expect from a desktop OS sorta like how MS has Visual basic that let's you hook everything easily. Throw in really good template scripts to get users acquainted with Unix-style scripting, and then you'd be leveling the field. To do that level of integration requires making a cut to make some stuff BEST over just Good. Best part with OSS is that somebody else could do all their scripting in REX...and it would be just fine too!!! As long as you stick to the Debian sources, then your users have great data portability and migration!!