FW: Has Ubuntu Reached the End of the Line?

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Subject: Has Ubuntu Reached the End of the Line?
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Has Ubuntu Reached the End of the Line?  

by Keir Thomas, PC World  

Ubuntu 9.04 is so polished and refined that it may finally have caught up with 
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