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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