Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 10th Nov 2008 19:08 UTC
Last week, during Ubuntu's OpenWeek, Mark Shuttleworth joined in for a two hour Q&A session, where he answered a wide range of questions regarding Ubuntu and its parent company, Canonical. They ranged from questions regarding Canonical's relationship with Dell, all the way up to Shuttleworth's response to Greg Kroah-Hartman's criticism of Canonical.
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2005-07-08
We might get some clues about Ubuntu's success reflecting why its users choose it over other options.
I have used Ubuntu for the last few years after having tried many distributions and used a range of others since 1999. Firstly, I really like working with deb, more than rpm, having extensively used both emerge and portage as well. This limits my choice of distribution already somewhat. I like Debian (and prefer it on servers for its reliablility and predictability), but on the desktop Ubuntu I quite like the default configuration. Another major factor in my preference is that I don't like to use KDE (haven't tried 4 though), and use Gnome as my daily environment. I find this also works well when I set up desktops for non-geeks. Other important factors for me are the large number of packages and the large userbase, both in user contributions and in third parties providing (packages) for Ubuntu, just very convenient.
Apart from Mint and Eeebuntu, I haven't tried many derivatives much, but I like the idea of staying with the (much larger) 'mothership'. And, not so important, I like Mark :-).