Saturday, November 25, 2006

Ubuntu grows and grows....

The Ubuntu linux distribution has become the most downloaded, most used and most liked linux distributuion of all.

With the first relaease in October 2004, it has gone to the top of distrowatch and remained there.

It is certainly the friendliest linux distro around. It is also the best distro to run on notebooks. The Thinkpads are specialy supported, as the team in Canonical UK, mostly use them.

The brown, clean, Gnome desktop and its simple toolbars, the ability to add/remove a vast number of programs, ease of use, good hardware detection, ease of installation from the desktop of a live CD, are adding together.

The futuristic Beryl desktop 3D enhancements, look great already.

Meanwhile the new Ubuntu server offes a LTSP-5(Linux Terminal Server Project). LTSP-5 is designed to offer thin clients a lower TCO (total cost of ownership), simpler installation, and easier maintenance than typical office desktop deployments.

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