Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th Feb 2007 23:04 UTC, submitted by Dolores Parker
Yesterday, Linspire and Canonical issued a joint announcement that Linspire would begin to base its distributions on Ubuntu rather than Debian, and that Ubuntu users would be able to use CNR to install proprietary applications and drivers, starting with the Fiesty Fawn release. Linspire is just the latest distro to switch from Debian to Ubuntu, though it may be the highest-profile distribution to do so. Are other distros in talks with Canonical? Steve George, Canonical's director of support and services, says that Canonical is in talks with other vendors, and says, "I think you'll see some announcements next week about other people using us as a platform."
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"Switching because you found something that really helps you better is one thing."
That is is certainly the case.
"Switching just because you want to be "cool" and not use what others are using is another."
It has nothing to do with being "cool". I don't like Ubuntu, what can I do. So in the extremely unlikely case that all Linux distributions become *buntu based, at least I know that I have a good alternative.
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"But this "Any Linux you want, as long as it's ubuntu" movement is leaving a really bad taste in my mouth."
Absolutely. Just in case Ubuntu takes over, I have already OS X as an alternative (and very good) solution.