Phrawm48
December 25th, 2007, 11:44 PM
There's a nice mention of Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular in this article from The Economist newspaper (the term The Economist prefers for itself over magazine).
The article is titled Technology in 2008 (http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912). Scroll down to the section of the article titled 3. Surfing—and everything else computer-related—will open.
For example:
That’s largely the doing of Gutsy Gibbon, the code-name for the Ubuntu 7.10 from Canonical. Along with distributions such as Linspire, Mint, Xandros, OpenSUSE and gOS, Ubuntu (and its siblings Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu) has smoothed most of Linux’s geeky edges while polishing it for the desktop.
No question, Gutsy Gibbon is the sleekest, best integrated and most user-friendly Linux distribution yet. It’s now simpler to set up and configure than Windows. A great deal of work has gone into making the graphics, and especially the fonts, as intuitive and attractive as the Mac’s.
Cheers & enjoy,
Ric
SFO
The article is titled Technology in 2008 (http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912). Scroll down to the section of the article titled 3. Surfing—and everything else computer-related—will open.
For example:
That’s largely the doing of Gutsy Gibbon, the code-name for the Ubuntu 7.10 from Canonical. Along with distributions such as Linspire, Mint, Xandros, OpenSUSE and gOS, Ubuntu (and its siblings Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Xubuntu) has smoothed most of Linux’s geeky edges while polishing it for the desktop.
No question, Gutsy Gibbon is the sleekest, best integrated and most user-friendly Linux distribution yet. It’s now simpler to set up and configure than Windows. A great deal of work has gone into making the graphics, and especially the fonts, as intuitive and attractive as the Mac’s.
Cheers & enjoy,
Ric
SFO