Ubuntu - My New Home

[Kevin Carmony]

Hello all,

As some of you may know, I was the former CEO for Linspire, and resigned a few months back. I won't go into details as to why I resigned, but suffice it to say, it was the right decision for me, and I'm happy to have moved on.

Some of you may also remember me from posts I made here on your forum from time to time. It was here that I first bounced the idea off of making CNR available to Ubuntu users. I was always welcomed and enjoyed the interaction I had here.

Now that I'm no longer the CEO of Linspire, or under any obligation to use that particular distribution, I thought I should take some time and look around at all the distributions and decide which one was right for me and my PC. In addition to already being quite familiar with Linspire and Freespire, I also looked at Novell/Suse, Red Hat/Fedora, PC Linux, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu.

Well, after all my research, I have to tell you, it was an easy choice. Ubuntu! I'm excited for the new release in a few days, which I will use to replace the many Linux desktop and laptop PCs I own (five).

Canonical and Ubuntu have done so many things right. I was very proud of many of the things I was able to accomplish at Linspire, but it's no longer the distro for me.

I look forward to not only using Ubuntu on all my PCs, but also becoming an active member of your community here. (I have thousands of posts on the Linspire/Freespire forums, and I'm sure I'll run into many of my good friends from that community here.)

Some of my good friends and quality employees have also left Linspire and joined Canonical, and I get a sense from them of the excitement, commitment and expectations the Ubuntu team has to really make open source desktop Linux a reality. This is truly where it is at!

I'm excited to call Ubuntu my new home and look forward to helping out as part of the community here!

Kevin Carmony
www.kevincarmony.com

[kshane]

Hey Kevin!

Welcome to Ubuntu! I have been a Windows user since Win 3.1... I bought Vista earlier this year and was furious afterward, so I looked around for a while and settled on Ubuntu. Man, I am so glad I did. I love it! Been with Ubuntu since this past may...

Hey! Welcome again!

Kevin

[Mr. Psychopath]

Welcome to Ubuntu, Kevin!
Always good to see people moving in!

[siralphred]

first off good job with Linspire, and you are welcome, am sure u will be of great help. So whats next in the horizon for you now that you are no longer with linspire?

[p_quarles]

Welcome, Kevin. It's always great to see new users here, but it's especially cool to see experienced new users who want to participate in the community's forums.

[tehhaxorr]

Wow, this is certainly some kick *** Ubuntu marketing.

Kevin, glad you made the change, like a lot of people here i never liked the feel of the Linspire/Freespire distro, i can understand in part why you chose a new distro.

[aktiwers]

Welcome Kevin!
I hope you enjoy the boards as much as you enjoy Ubuntu.
Its really a great community here

[jrusso2]

Hi Kevin,

Its a shame Freespire held so much promise that was never realized.

This shows how important it is to listen to your users.

Anyway welcome to Ubuntu

[-grubby]

hello!

[SunnyRabbiera]

I dont know if its possible to trust you, from my standpoint your comments about linux a while back were rather rude.
It just seemed by your comments that distrobutions using microsofts codecs and junk was quite contriversial.
Also linspires position with microsoft is also troubling to me, I really dont trust Microsoft on a personal level.