I have played around with ubuntu 4.1 - based on gnome 2.8 and have been very impressed. They have created a great linux distro for newbie linux users. Removing a lot of the complexity that linux typically has. Everything just works - usb, windows drive mapping, etc. And it is based on debian - which means that if you don't like it the escape is fairly easy.
The only flaws I could find is were
1) Wine support is missing by default. Personally I think that users have windows applications that they will want to run.
2) default colours are a bit drab
I'll have to download and compare it with the latest suse.... Linux is getting "good enough" for even home users. What's lagging is only OpenOffice. Hopefully abiword/kword will catch up.
Posted by Anthony at October 25, 2004 12:45 PM | TrackBack