“With Ubuntu 8.04 now on the streets, it’s time to catch a
breather and reflect on just why Ubuntu gets all the hype. Why is
Ubuntu the hottest brand in Linuxdom at this time? Why is it the
distro most frequently advocated? I posed these questions to
readers and LUG members; here’s the feedback from real-life Linux
users.“First some very brief notes on my own Linux journey. Actually,
my first involvement with UNIX was on a Gould Electronics
superminicomputer at University. We used the GNU C
compiler–gcc–for software development…”