On 2/1/06, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: > > >Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to > >become the Linux distribution of choice? ... > > > > Money? Mark Shuttleworth's that is. Money alone does not buy success, plus I doubt he invested more money in his ububtu than say novell with SuSE. The idea of giving away free ubuntu disk sets was crazy and innovative that alone meant a lot of good publicity, people were talking about ubuntu even before trying it.(granted, you need funding to put that into practice but it's the same money you would have spent in publicity) add the ideas in my previous mail about a low entry barrier and you have some pixels of the big picture. there are other things to consider as well if we want an opensolaris with the effect ubuntu had: first there is linux' hardware support, solaris cant beat that right now second there is an easier migration path, people wont switch from say windows to ubuntu directly, they will very likely use both for a while (if you've been in an install fest open for everyone you should know that) and linux CAN read window's ntfs filesystems so users will have their legacy data available for free (don't give me the fat32 crap, people don´t use that with windows anymore) third, linux is easy to install, compare that to opensolaris where you have to deal with partitions, slices, etc. SuSE for example dealt with that automatically 5 years ago fourth: publicity.
this mail is long enough already so i guess that's it :) nacho > > (Sound's cynical, but big-time funding gives any project a huge advantage.) > > Eric > > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
