Gday,
I went to the monthly SAGE meet last week and learnt about a new debian distro with commerical support callled Ubuntu linux. Always interested in something new I have since installed it about three times and its pretty nice. It’s a single CD package. Aimed squarly at the desktop user it asks about 3 questions for a complete install. Autoconfiguring X Windows, using latest Gnome and all the major apps, OpenOffice, Firefox, Evolution etc.
The interesting part is its pedigree. The supporting company is called Canonical software. One of whos founders paid for a space flight. They have 40 developers, up from 3 in March. A number of well known debian developers have been retained. There is a large userbase, growing faster than I can count. The ubuntu-users mailing list is sending me 10 digests on average in one day. And they will ship you CD's of each release for free, anywhre in the world. In fact they encourage you to order more than one CD to give to your friends.
Strange but all true. Take a look for yourself.
Regards
Kevin Davies
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