Ubuntu, was Re: [oclug] oclug traffic

Michael P. Soulier msoulier at digitaltorque.ca
Wed Nov 3 07:14:05 EST 2004


On 03/11/04 Mike Kelland said:

> I had a quick look at the website as I was reading this thread, and I
> gotta say that it looks very Debian (as well it should).  I can't
> personally see the value in switching myself over, but I can definitly
> see the value in leveraging the enormous power of Debian into an easy to
> use package for a huge percentage of the computing population.  
> 
> What I find particularily intriguing about this, however, is not the
> community and user base (which is, let's face it, table stakes for a
> Linux distro), but the fact that there will finally be a corporately
> supported version of Debian on the market.  I think that's really huge. 

According to the people who contacted us at OPAG, one of Ubuntu's main
selling features is huge Python support on the desktop, for extending it
in a very VB on winblows way. Lets hope they did it safely. I still need
to find a box to put it on, as I don't want to install over my existing
ones right now. Maybe my VAIO...

Mike

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