How did you hear about ubuntu?

[UbuntuPerre]

I read about it in an article, visited the homepage, ordered 3 CD's and forgot the thing. About a month later the CD's arrived! Thanks guys! Now I've unistalled Windows totally! Miss Half-life / CounterStrike a bit though... Maybe I'll try Cedega.

Ubuntu is the most user-friendly and not-so-totally-full-of-different-applications Linux distro I've tried (I've tried Mandrake 10.0, SuSe 9.3, Fedora Core 3 and Xandros). I especially love the support possibilities!! The forums, the Wiki and all that!!! Thanks again guys! I also like the artwork and style of it all

Btw this is my first post.
UbuntuPerre

[Muhammad]

Recommended by a friend.

Same here.

[Ubunted]

I really cant remember when I first heard about it - might have been when I was looking over the Gnoppix project's website. From then it was just little hints until the PR of 5.04 came out and I tried the LiveCD.

[kostkon]

I read about Ubuntu in the UK Linux magazine Linux Format, where they had a review of Warty (or maybe Hoary, I don't remember).

Anyway, I had a Mandrake Community Edition on my PC (installed from 3 CDs provided by the same magazine) but I wasn't satisfied and I wanted something better.

So, I started searching for the replacement, I was thinking of Installing Slackware but then I suddenly remembered Ubuntu and all the nice words that Linux Format had said about this distro. I visited the website, I read more reviews, I saw screenshots and I was very impressed! I, then , downloaded the Live and Install ISOs without second thought, and installed it. And that's it, I am a very happy user of Ubuntu!

And yes the poll could had more Options like "Magazine" as that it was my case...

[Kyral]

One of the CS TAs at my school overheard me bitching about Gentoo one day while in the Linux Lab and suggested Ubuntu. The rest as they say, is history

[jyank]

I found out about it in a weird way.

Some friends and I were in a chatroom bored one night, we all were using either Debian or Gentoo and we were trying to convince the only one still running Windows to try it out. He said he wanted to but since he had 56k and was cheap he didn't want to download it/buy a cd.

Then one other friend, who was the most experienced with linux at the time, said why don't you just get Ubuntu, they'll send it to you for free.

I was using Debian, and after reformatting, the next distro I tried was Ubuntu.

[GreyFox503]

Saw it running on a friend's PC in my dorm, before I ever used linux. I asked him what it was, and after he told me, I said "Uboo-what?"

The name was unique enough that it stuck in my head, so later I decided to download it.

[kahping]

saw a review on Slashdot.org n decided to give it a try. been satisfied with it ever since

kahping

[heimo]

I read about Ubuntu in Arstechnica or LinuxJournal and my initial thoughts were 'yet another distro, yawn'. Then I heard it was based on Debian and it's winning all the prizes on Earth - so I decided it was worth a look some day. And that day I immediately felt like home.

[autocrosser]

I found Ubuntu on a reference in the Garnome mailing list--I was using YellowDog Linux & wanted a more modern desktop (YD 4.01 uses Gnome 2.6!), so I was testing the new (at that time) 2.10--I thought to myself---Ubuntu??--that's a strange name for a distro????--maybe I ought to take a look............And here I am