Revisiting Linux Part 1: A Look at Ubuntu 8.04

“There are many places I could have started this article, but
the best place to start is why this article exists at all.
Obviously some consideration comes from the fact that this is my
job, but I have been wanting to seriously try a Linux distribution
for quite some time. The fact that so much time has transpired
between the last desktop Linux article here at AnandTech and my
desire to try Linux makes for an excellent opportunity to give it a
shot and do something about our Linux coverage at the same
time.

“After I threw this idea at Anand, the immediate question was
what distribution of Linux should we use. As Linux is just an
operating system kernel, and more colloquially it is the
combination of the Linux kernel and the GNU toolset (hence the less
common name GNU/Linux), this leaves a wide variation of actual
distributions out there. Each distribution is its own combination
of GNU/Linux, applications, window managers, and more, to get a
complete operating system.”

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