Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 2nd Feb 2008 22:29 UTC, submitted by Nemilar
"Its official release is just under three months away, and Ubuntu 8.04, or Hardy Heron, promises some great improvements over the already user-friendly Ubuntu 7.10 (also known as Gusty Gibbon). This is a look at the fourth Alpha release of Hardy; including many of the applications that are now included by default and the major changes that will improve stability and usability. Among these are the addition of Firefox 3 and Remote Desktop on the applications side, and a new method for systems control known as Policy Kit, which enables the administrator to unlock certain functions for normal users."
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2005-11-11
Ubuntu does very little. Most of the job of Ubuntu is packaging the work done by the community, by Red Hat/Fedora, by Novell, etc.
But that's exactly how it is supposed to work ! The job of a distribution IS packing and making everything work together. And most of the softwares included by RH or Novel are not theirs either, so this remark does not make much sense anyway.
Many people try linux for the first time with Ubuntu, which is a good thing overall for the linux environment. They succeeded in providing a debian based distribution that many people want to use, where everybody failed before. Is marketing one of the reason ? Of course, but that's certainly not the only one. Making the distribution a one CD thing, the super easy installation from the live CD are things which may seem small for the geek-inclined guy, but as far as I know, they were the first ones to make it available.
IOW, they managed to make the entry bar extremely low, like nobody else before.
Edited 2008-02-03 05:18 UTC