"This year has been a huge step forward for Desktop Linux users.
First, Fedora Core 5 was released and featured the new Gnome 2.14.
Then SUSE 10.1 showed us how well applications could be integrated
to make a desktop look great. Now it was time for Ubuntu to release
their latest version: 'Dapper Drake.'
"Since its first release, Ubuntu has been extraordinarily
successful. A lot of users began to use it and very few went back
to their old distribution. It also participated greatly in
attracting new people to GNU/Linux..."