BSBlog: Is Ubuntu an Operating System? Oct 7, 2006, 00 :00 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (6866 reads)
"Is Ubuntu an operating system? Last week at EuroOSCON, Mark Shuttleworth gave the closing keynote outlining what he believes are the major struggles faced by the open-source/free-software community. During his talk, it became clear that Ubuntu is trying to achieve a radical shift in the software world. Ubuntu isn't trying to be a platform for mass-market application software: it is trying to be the primary provider of both the operating system and all the application software that a typical user would want to run on his machine. Most Linux distributions are like this, and I think it is a dangerous trend that will stifle innovation and usability, or even worse make the desktop irrelevant.
"Mr. Shuttleworth's initial point was one that few people disagree with: that software installers are bad for users and usability..."
