NewsForge: My Workstation OS: Ubuntu

"I've found a Linux distribution that meets my criteria for an ideal system. Ubuntu Linux is fast. It has simple software updating and installation through Debian's Synaptic package manager. All of my removable media works automagically. It detected all of my hardware. And above all, it has a simple, clean, elegant interface that I love.

"I've been using Linux since 1997. Over the years I've tried various versions of Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake, Caldera, Knoppix, Mepis, PCLinuxOS, Gentoo, SUSE, Fedora, and Debian. All of them had good points, but all of them left me wanting something--not necessarily something better, but something more suited to the way I work..."

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