All About Linux: Is the Word Ubuntu in "Ubuntu Linux" Over-Hyped? Decide for Yourselves. | Linux Today

All About Linux: Is the Word Ubuntu in “Ubuntu Linux” Over-Hyped? Decide for Yourselves.

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 19, 2006

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“Recently I read an article lambasting or rather dissecting the
role that Ubuntu has played in the Linux community and according to
the author of the article titled –Ubuntu vs. Debian: What
Canonical Doesn’t Want You To Know, it boils down to clever
marketing on the part of Ubuntu folks or in other words marketing
gimmicks. In fact I see this growing dissent towards this
distribution in different quarters–mind you, not from the actual
users of Ubuntu who love this distribution but from people who are
affiliated with or use other Linux distributions.

“So as a long time Ubuntu user, I asked myself this very
important question. Is the Ubuntu word over-hyped…?”


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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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