From: ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com   
      
   On 2026-01-27, CrudeSausage  wrote:   
   > On 27 Jan 2026 01:30:45 GMT, rbowman wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 27 Jan 2026 00:30:19 GMT, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Admittedly, Linux seemed like a dying fad until Ubuntu released its   
   >>> first edition. Once that happened, every distribution improved   
   >>> significantly.   
   >>   
   >> Give me a break. For whatever reason Shuttleworth decided to take the   
   >> windfall from the sale of his company to Verisgin to create a distro   
   >> based on Debian and started mailing out CDs faster than AOL.   
   >>   
   >> Slackware, Debian, SUSE, Red Hat, Mandrake, and others. Mandrake had   
   >> already gotten a reputation for being easy to install for new users 6   
   >> years before Ubunutu. In fact they'd lost the trademark suit to Hearst a   
   >> couple of month's before the Ubunutu brainstorm session.   
   >>   
   >> It's interesting Ubunut was and is based on Debian. Debian gores back to   
   >> '93. Stallman's Free Software Foundation sponsored Debian for one year   
   >> before the inclusion of optional 'non-free' software pissed off   
   >> Stallman.   
   >>   
   >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/   
   >> The_Open_Source_Definition#Debian_Free_Software_Guidelines   
   >   
   > The problem with the distributions you cited above as being "easy to   
   > install" is that they were also easy to hate. In most cases, they were   
   > utter slop that broke if you turned your head to sneeze. Ubuntu was both   
   > easy to install and easy to use.   
      
   That was my impression as well.   
      
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