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What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:1, Informative)
There have been more Ubuntu stories over the past couple of months than every other distro put together, and it's only a relatively new distro. What gives? Has it already amassed the hundreds of thousands of users necessary to make an unofficial forum big news? Someone's just dumped a copy of phpbb on a new domain a couple of days ago. How is this "stuff that matters"?
Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:3, Insightful)
So if you do a news article about the ranking jump, you'd essentially be doing an article about the fact that there have been a lot of Ubuntu articles recently.
Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't get me wrong, it's great it's free free, and that they'll send you a free CD, or so it says.
A formalised "Code of Conduct" sounds a good idea, but is that any different from the social contracts other distros have formalised?
The LDFLAGS they set which is the basis for the excellent start up times is a neat trick, and certainly unique in my limited experience of binary based distros, but if
Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:2)
Big ass discussion here. [gentoo.org]
I tried it on zsh myself and didn't notice too much of a difference (perhaps a little faster), so take it all with a grain of salt. It's quite likely that people will 'see' speedups because they expect to see them instead of actual improvements.
But, it can't hurt (as long as you don't mind slower compilation), so you might as well give it a try.
Re:What's with all the Ubuntu stories? (Score:5, Informative)
This is the first distro that has even come close to competing with Windows while still having the Linux feel/flavor. I don't know if that was their intention but usually the best stuff is so good that it far exeeds its original intention.
One of the main things I like about Ubuntu is that the base install doesn't include ten thousand various apps and fill the application menus with thousands of icons and other choices that I'll never use.
If you look at the Windows model, when you need some application, you realize you need it, install it, then it shows up in the menus. Too many Linux distros install too much crap all at once. I end up never using the GUI because all the menus are cluttered with crap I never use. Ubuntu provides a clean office-oriented base install without too much crap. I can then install the crap I want from Ubuntu/Debian's huge repository.
Mailinglists, forums and.. (Score:2)
a nntp forum, or better webforum/mailinglist and news gateways.
Re:Mailinglists, forums and.. (Score:4, Informative)
nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
Web interface:
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ubuntu.user
Ubuntu Linux Comunity? (Score:2)