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   From: arachnid    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:12:55 -0600   
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   On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:16:38 -0500, Laszlo Lebrun wrote:   
      
   > arachnid wrote:   
   >> On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 20:20:06 +0000, Chris Game wrote:   
   >>    
   >>> Come on, you would at the right price. A free system is a great   
   >>> incentive. 'Community spirit' is just a circular argument though, what   
   >>> has lead to this 'community' forming around Ubuntu?   
   >>    
   >> The same thing that's led to communities forming around other Linux   
   >> distributions.   
   >>    
   > What "same thing" made it more successful than anyone else?   
      
   IMO Ubuntu is so successful because of the great job Shuttleworth has   
   done of combining the responsiveness of a user-driven distro with the   
   heavy funding of a commercial distro.    
      
   >>> Are they really so shallow as to be attracted by an appeal to ideals   
   >>> and a hint of African symbology?   
   >>    
   >> Why do you feel a need to make insulting accusations? We're attracted   
   >> to Ubuntu for the same reason other people are attracted to other   
   >> distro's - because it best meets our particular needs.   
   >>    
   > ...because it best meets the particular needs of *more* people, by   
   > including "plain users" who don't want to fiddle with .conf files??   
      
   Yep. I'm somewhat amused by the way the Debian guys get all in a huff and   
   proclaim that there is no significant difference between Ubuntu and   
   Debian. Just ask any nontechnical user who is new to Linux, the   
   differences are *quite* substantial to them.    
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