What do you like best about Ubuntu?

[Tim Schmidt]

I agree about the application selection...  One app each for the
general types of work most people use computers for.  Great.  Also:

Hal Hal Hal, Dbus Dbus Dbus

Can't say it enough.  All the integration and ease-of-use provided by
hal and dbus and the apps built on top of them is phenominal.  I can
only wish for more apps and deeper integration.  In other words, more
of what Ubuntu and Gnome are already doing!

I wish Warty had X.org as I've had great success with 6.7 and 6.8 in
other distributions, however, I have to say that my experiences so far
with Warty's XF86 4.3 w/ added drivers (amongst other patches I'm
sure) has been quite good.  Certainly better than any other XF86 using
distro.

Basically, keep up the good work.  Increment the apps (OpenOffice 2.0
would be nice in Hoary) and keep a sharp eye out for nice Dbus / HAL
apps.  Nothing you guys weren't already doing.  Thanks for the amazing
work!


--tim


On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:49:16 -0700, Jonathan Byrne
<jbyrne at frontbridge.com> wrote:
> It just struck me  as I sit here, last one in my office, that I have
> never before encountered a Debian-based distro being used by so many
> beginners.  And not just used, but successfully installed.  Usually on
> the first try.
> 
> That, perhaps more than anything else, speaks very well of Ubuntu. To be
> new to Debian and get a fully successful install on your first try is a
> bit uncommon.  To do so as a Linux beginner is pretty much unheard
> of :-)
> 
> Like most Debian users I know, I have over five years of *nix
> experience, some of it as a professional sysadmin.  Most started, as I
> did, on some other distro and later moved to Debian.  The few I know
> who started on Debian did so with previous proprietary Unix experience.
> 
> For Ubuntu to have made a Debian-based distro which is easy to deal with
> for people who don't come from the sort of background I describe above,
> while simultaneously acting and feeling very "Debianish" for those of
> us who are coming from mainline Debian and like the way it works, is a
> truly great accomplishment.
> 
> My hat is off to the entire Ubuntu team. Congratulations on the official
> release of Warty!
> 
> Jonathan
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