Dapper Drake spotted

On 10/26/05, Jonathan Carter <jonathan at shuttleworthfoundation.org> wrote:
> Having said that, if you look on the top 100 list for the last month,
> Kubuntu is #9 now, which means that Ubuntu has two places on the
> distrowatch top hits per day list, I think that's amazing. This also
> means that 7 out of the top 10 distro's are debian based! Way to go
> .deb! Edubuntu also climbed up to number 46, still in it's first month
> of release, exceeding Freeduc, EduKnoppix, Edulinux, Guadalinux, K12LTSP
> and OpenLab on Distrowatch.
>
> Never underestimate the power of UBUNTU :)
>
> I wonder how long it is before most of the top 10 distro's are all
> ubuntu based?

That would be a _bad_ thing. If Ubuntu becomes the defacto standard
across the board, I fear that the same sort of stagnation that is evident in
the world of Microsoft would become entrenched in the Ubuntiverse *.

Diversity may drive people nuts in the realm of Linux and BSD, but, I
think that it's the diversity that has also allowed these OSes to
evolve. Because of the contributions of all those programmers, each
working on their own pet projects, OSS OSes are now at the point where
they are viable desktop platforms, able to match or even outperform
what was on offer from commercial vendors a few years ago (Mac OS 7,
Windows 95 anyone) and can, for _some_ people and _some_ situations
match what is currently
on offer from Microsoft or Apple.

*Feel free to steal Ubuntiverse. It's cute & I can't find evidence for
its use yet :-).

Eric.