Ubuntu: Taking Over the Linux World

This just in: it’s an Ubuntu future. Think I’m nuts? Take a cold, hard look around. Even though I’m a fan of other delightful distros like Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux, there are other honorable mentions, such as Fedora (a fine distro) and OpenSuSE. At the end of the day, however, Ubuntu has won the hearts of common users. And that is not my opinion, this is simply a matter of numbers.

Now, for the biggest question: do high numbers mean that Ubuntu is the best distribution out there? Some will argue that this is an impossible point to make, as each person has different needs from their distribution. But for the sake of this article, we will be considering the average user, not the Slackware crowd, who is obviously much more comfortable within a command line environment than mainstream users.

Stable, Reliable, But Are They Moving Forward Quickly Enough? The three closest competitors to Ubuntu would have to be Debian (obviously, look at the development tree), Fedora (has a strong community) and SuSE (strong backing from Novell).

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