"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
1566587.W5WQefoMUG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 2/17/08 7:48 AM:
>>> Ubuntu 7.10 - The Best Version.
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>>> | Even when you're not the follow-the-crowd type of Linux user, who can
>>> | resist the plethora of new features on this new incarnation of Ubuntu
>>> | 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon.
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>>> http://www.linuxseekers.com/content/view/203/1/
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>> While Ubuntu is a very solid distribution, I think its excellent
>> marketing is the thing that has put it out front.
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> I've always thought it was the free CDs (and shipping) that gave it momentum.
While that helps in some cases it also deters - not because the idea is bad
but the implementation... it takes forever and, all too often, the CDs never
show up. I had a class where a number of kids ordered them... months later
most had not received there. I did hand out free copies but they wanted the
"official" ones with the labels.
--
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of
limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and
great nations. - David Friedman
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