Forever Geek: Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog Review

“Ubuntu Linux is still a young distro, and is currently one of
the most popular distros on today’s Linux scene. Ubuntu is based on
Debian, and makes use of its apt-get/dpkg package system. Although
many people have referred to Ubuntu as ‘lazy Debian,’ Ubuntu is
quickly heading in directions that are much different than
Debian’s. A standard Ubuntu installation includes GNOME 2.10 (you
can use Kubuntu, available at http://www.kubuntu.org.uk/ if you
prefer KDE to be installed by default, although its very easy to
set up KDE on top of a clean Ubuntu installation), the X.org X
server, the latest versions of Evolution and Firefox, a 2.6.10
kernel, and a whole lot more. Ubuntu’s package management team has
done a very decent job of keeping their software current. The new
release of Ubuntu also includes new frontends for apt-get, called
update-manager and update-notifier…”

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