“While the eyes of the IT world have spent years squinting to
see Microsoft’s slowly unfolding vistas, the companies and
individuals that drive open source have been steadily building a
case for broader adoption of Linux-based operating systems.“Two of the best all-around Linux distributions to emerge from
this process are OpenSUSE 10.2 and Ubuntu 6.10, both of which
bundle together the best of what open source has to offer into
operating systems that merit consideration for desktop and (some)
server workloads…”