Has Ubuntu Replaced Windows on Your Box?

[Kristian Rink]

Am Mon, 21 Aug 2006 17:23:19 +0100
schrieb UncleOwl <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>:

> 
> No Windows in my computers since 2000. Before Ubuntu, there were
> Mandrake/Mandriva, Fedora, CentOS, Debian... But Windows is a distant
> past.
> 

Made the "jump" from Windows 95 to GNU/Linux in late 1996, started out
with SuSE, been using several distributions the last years (Stampede,
RedHat, Slackware) and ended up using Debian for about five years now.
Right now, I'm using "off-the-shelf" Ubuntu on my workstation and
a customized Debian "sid" installation on my laptop. As a system
administrator, I have chosen Ubuntu Dapper Drake LTS as the platform
for new GNU/Linux servers to be based upon - this is a place where I
don't that much need "new" features, and so the idea of having a
"long-term support" platform perfectly fits the needs.


Besides that, on the desktop: The Ubuntu crowd has done an outstanding
job indeed creating a GNU/Linux distribution for "human beings", easy
to use, easy to get started with, having a learning-curve less steep
than "native" Debian and still being built upon its reliable
technology. This is what I would have started with if it had been
around ten years ago. ;)

Cheers & best,
Kristian

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