Linked by David Adams on Sun 9th Nov 2008 07:16 UTC, submitted by Vincent
As you have probably noticed, new versions have arrived of Ubuntu, Xubuntu and other derivatives. One of the most exciting new features has received far less publicity than it deserves - the ability to 'install' it onto your USB flash drive with just a few clicks. The advantages are obvious: just plug your flash drive into a computer and run your favourite operating system. What's more, everything you do - installing applications, saving documents, editing preferences - will be saved to your flash drive and will be available to you every time you run it! The best news is that it's astoundingly easy: all it takes is a few clicks.
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I think there have been lots of Fedora news on OSnews too. I remember some Fedora news where the main topic were the new Fedora desktop wallpapers and not much else...
Fedora and Ubuntu are just popular, therefore covered more in the news. OSnews publishes news - that simple. News stories just don't drop down from the sky but someone has to write them first.
If you do find interesting news about other distros or operating systems somewhere else, please, submit those news to OSnews too, we others might be interested in reading them too. Of course, even better would be to write news about interesting topics not covered elsewhere yet, although not everyone has the skills and means.
Anyway, I agree in the sense that I would like to read more news stories about other distributions too. There are many interesting specialized niche distros (source-based, mediabox distros etc.) inventing new things all the time. But as they are often small, there may just not be that many news about them.
Blehh.., go trolling elsewhere, please. Why are you talking in terms of closed commercial software development when talking about open source? Like already said above, you cannot call it plagiarizing if someone uses some opensource software elsewhere as to have many users and developers - everywhere, not just inside one company - is one main goal of open source.
Also, Microsoft has been inventing many things by themselves too.
And also, Ubuntu is far from Microsoft as the company behind Ubuntu is not even profitable yet and only employs a relatively small number of people still. Ubuntu also hasn't advertised itself much more than any other commercial distro has, the reasons for its popularity are elsewhere.
Well, sending free CD-ROMs like what Ubuntu has been doing, might be too expensive for other distro makers - lacking a millionaire as their sponsor - which has definitely been one reason, but only one, for Ubuntu's popularity. But other than that, nothing prevents other distros or operating systems from doing things better and becoming more popular than Ubuntu - but, whining and trolling is surely not the way to do it.
Edited 2008-11-09 11:43 UTC