On the success of Ubuntu

Courtesy Ubuntu-News.net  Thu, 05/22/2008 - 14:10

I'm writing this as I'm wrapping up the Gentoo installation on my thinkpad that replaced the horrible mess that was Ubuntu 8.04 ("Hardy") and it kinda got me thinking about how it came to be that Ubuntu dominated the mindshare.


 

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