[Ubuntu-be] Fwd: Linux World presentation

[Serge van Ginderachter]

Hi all,


Just to tell you that I will be giving a presentation on Linux World Brussels 2008 (http://www.linuxworldexpo.be/) on Ubuntu.
This is a talk for a business, non-tech public.

I was asked to provide a summary of my presentation, which I'm copying here:

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Ubuntu's primary focus is user-centric: give your users what they want. As such the most work has been done on desktop centric offerings, and they have been very successful at providing an easy to use and appealing desktop environment for new Linux users. They recently made deals with Dell to provide pre-installed systems. Only recently they started putting also more work on server offerings, but they already made a big name just with their Desktop offerings.

They obviously have a lot of catch-up work to do with other Distributions, such as Red Hat, but they already provide an infrastructure with certain advantages over the pure community based distributions, such as Debian, on which Ubuntu is based, by providing scheduled releases and a support path, and a separate long term support release (Ubuntu LTS). Third parties like Zimbra groupware already give more support on Ubuntu than on Debian. 
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I still need to work out the actual presentation, and I will write about *my* perception and experience, but off course all constructive remarks or ideas are welcome.



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        Serge

Serge van Ginderachter          http://www.vanginderachter.be/