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OSNews: Review of Ubuntu “Warty”

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 8, 2005

“For over six years I have been hunting for a Linux distro that
would allow me to replace my Windows installation. I’ve tried many
versions of RedHat and Mandrake, and more recently, Gnoppix,
Kanotix, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Knoppix. In my evaluations, I would
start with high hopes that the latest and greatest distro would
install smoothly, support my hardware, and create a genuinely
usable system, but none of them really worked–until now. I
recently came across the first distro that satisfied all my
requirements: Ubuntu.

“Ubuntu is a recent distribution that is based on Debian
unstable. From reading many online posts, it appears that a large
number of Debian developers are Ubuntu users. From most
perspectives, Ubuntu is Debian, but with added improvements and
more testing…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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