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wolfen69
October 21st, 2011, 01:46 AM
For all of you nostalgia lovers, I have located Ubuntu's first time on distrowatch via archive.org. It was Sept. 29 2004. It started off at the #100 position, and the rest is history. I have included a couple cropped screenshots from that fateful day. Full link (http://web.archive.org/web/20040929104305/http://distrowatch.com/)

A challenge: who can be the first person to find when ubuntu became #1 for the very first time.
hansdown
October 21st, 2011, 01:56 AM
2010.

http://www.spreadia.com/Ubuntu_distro/158986279/Ubuntu_becomes_1_distro_on_DistroWatch

Good stuff, wolfen69.

Starting as #100, was a little challenging.
wolfen69
October 21st, 2011, 02:10 AM
2010.

http://www.spreadia.com/Ubuntu_distro/158986279/Ubuntu_becomes_1_distro_on_DistroWatch



You cheated! I meant at archive.org ;)
hansdown
October 21st, 2011, 02:17 AM
You cheated! I meant at archive.org ;)

I fail.

I do it well, though! ;)
cgroza
October 21st, 2011, 02:20 AM
I wonder what will DistroWatch show in another 7 years...
wolfen69
October 21st, 2011, 02:32 AM
I wonder what will DistroWatch show in another 7 years...

Yeah, it's interesting to see what was popular back then. Most of the distros aren't even around anymore.
Linuxratty
October 21st, 2011, 03:59 AM
Yeah, it's interesting to see what was popular back then. Most of the distros aren't even around anymore.

I noticed that. Already three I've used are gone...
wolfen69
October 21st, 2011, 05:27 AM
From one of the first real reviews about ubuntu on distrowatch that day:

http://web.archive.org/web/20041015172818/http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8407&page=6 (connection was very slow for me)

"Canonical Software is a veritable all star team of developers, mostly from the Gnome and Debian projects, and it shows in their design goals. Ubuntu is fast, yet feature rich. It's up to date, yet capable of being run on relatively old hardware. They take a traditionally bulky desktop environment which is near to their heart and prove that it's reputation was due to years of misimplementation."

It's a 6 part review that I actually remember reading. This review is partly responsible for me being an ubuntu user now. Ah, the good old days.
http://www.motifake.com/image/demotivational-poster/0902/glory-days-greybeards-demotivational-poster-1233518340.jpg