How did you first hear of ubuntu?

[UbuntuniX]

How did you first find ubuntu?

I was told by a hacker :mrgreen:

Edit: Sorry I clicked the wrong forum on the dropdown ](*,)

[Rackerz]

I think this would be more appropriate in the Cafe, but I heard about Linux/Ubuntu from a guy I hosted.

[MetalMusicAddict]

Someone on IRC told me about it.

[T700]

From a coworker in the IT department.

Paul

[bruce89]

Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_linux_distributions).
I was looking for a free one, preferably a small number of disks. I saw Ubuntu, whereupon Firefox attracted me (no longer though).

[AlphaMack]

A Mac forum.

[Brunellus]

Distrowatch. I was looking for something to replace SuSE 9.1 personal.

[Christmas]

When I decided to try Linux I was reading a Romanian forum and there was a topic like "Ubuntu is not bad". After several days and reading the forums I decided to install it and see. It was Ubuntu Breezy the version I installed back then. Now I am Windows-free and very glad with Kubuntu.

[briguy]

I downloaded a gnome 2.10 beta livecd that was linked to by slashdot or something like it. It was an Ubuntu Hoary livecd in gnome colours. Blew Fedora Core 3 out of the water!

[codypumper]

I was searching for linux. I didn't know where to look, so I read forums about "the best linux distro". Ubuntu came up very often.

[Rhapsody]

From a forum I frequent. I wanted to switch to Linux, and asked them which distro would be best for me. They suggested Ubuntu. It was the first time I'd ever heard of it, but I decided the gung-ho approach would do me good. Seems it did.

[Rule]

I was looking on distrowatch and I noticd Ubuntu Warty Warthog and I was hooked then I got my family on it and soon more family will be using it :mrgreen:

[BigDave708]

Here:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/12/make_the_easy_switch_to_linux_uk/index.html

[GuitarHero]

I googled Easy Linux, or best linux, something like that. Saw mepis too, but didnt like the name. Ha, but since then ive looked at mepis and still like ubuntu better.

[Bloch]

I was in a sauna.
Really.

[BWF89]

I was on this forum for this open source news website called LinuxTimes (which nolonger exists) back in 2004 and this guy from Mumbai India mentioned he used Ubuntu.

[kop316]

My older brother used it, and suggested it to me.

[kop316]

My older brother uses it, and suggested it to me.

[ArizonaKid]

I did a Google search for the most popular distribution. Of course distro watch listed this strange sounding distro called Ubuntu near the top.

I tried Ubuntu, used Automatix, and was happy.

[basketcase]

Distrowatch...it was the most popular

[nalmeth]

I heard it from a linux guy who was saying they forked debian's code, and had a rich finacier behind it. Otherwise he thought it was probably a pretty good OS.

He urged me to install debian first, and I'm glad I did for the experience, but I'm quite settled into Ubuntu by now.

[mhancoc7]

My wifes old boss introduced me to Linux. He first showed me Suse which he was using at the time. He sent me a Suse DVD, but my old compaq laptop did not have a DVD ROM. About a week later he sent me the Warty Warthog discs. I set them up but I could not get Win4Lin working so I tried SimplyMepis for a while, but Ubuntu kept calling me back. I returned with the release of Hoary Hedgehog. I have not left since and have no plans of ever using anything other than Ubuntu.
Jereme

[ericesque]

My fiance's brother mentioned the distro while we were talking about linux. I'd tried a few live cds for various distros. He said Ubuntu was one of the most popular, so eventually I gave it a try. I think it took 3 installs before it finally stuck tho. meh.

[beercz]

Back in the Warty days a friend recommended it to me, stuck with Ubuntu ever since.

Thanks Michal :-)

[beercz]

Back in the Warty days a friend recommended it to me, stuck with Ubuntu ever since.

Thanks Michal :-)

[BuffaloX]

My wife has been trying different Linux distros from time to time.
When she was playing with Ubuntu, It seemed quite cool, so I had to try it too. Where she found it I don't know.

I had a small detour trying Suse, But I like Ubuntu better.
Now we both use Ubuntu. :p

[tkjacobsen]

distrowatch

[cbudden]

I saw on a freebies section of a forum site the Ubuntu Linux CD's so I thought what the hell!

[Buffalo Soldier]

Distrowatch. Was using SimplyMEPIS at that time. I was looking for a GNOME + Debian desktop Linux.

[UbuntuniX]

hmm Distrowatch...You must link me! :P

[Simian]

I was using Fedora at the time and I bought a copy of Linux Format or Linux Magazine. It had a free Ubuntu CD. I tried it (Warty) and hated the theme and no root user thing and quickly went back to fedora. But then for some reason I decided to try it again and have never looked back.

[tribaal]

Honestly? I can't remember :(

*blush*

- trib'

[bluenova]

I don't remember where I heard about it, but it was the package management that attracted me.

I was using Fedora Core before and I was getting more and more peed off with Yum as it took longer and longer to load because for every 3rd party application you need a new source to get updates from, and a lot of things had dependency problems, probably due to the amount of different sources.

:Edit:
I think it was because Shuttleworth was in the news so I started reading about his projects.

[-Phi-]

I was looking for a good Linux to learn on and a Gentoo running New Zealand friend suggested Ubuntu (Warty at the time) because of the deb package management combined with reasonable learning curve.

Of course, I first had to convince him I didn't want to set up Gentoo ;)

- Phi

[RAV TUX]

I was searching for a Linux OS online, doing research and eventually I came across a review of sorts about Ubuntu, it emphasized how Ubuntu had the most freedom to set up your OS and how it was community based.

At the time I was leaning to SUSE, but I think the clincher may have been that Ubuntu was free. So I ordered a CD and waited patiently.

I have to say my first experience was amazing!

I first started with Hoary Hedgehog.

[jason.b.c]

Well one night while screwing around on the internet i did a google search for Alternate Operating Systems.. (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-17,GGGL:en&q=Alternate+operating+systems) .;)

Which eventually led me here to ubuntu...:D

Man..!! Dang-it..! I sure do wish i could figure out why the download link for this one dosen't work..:mad: http://www.atheos.cx/

[TiLuis]

I have one friend that is crazy for linux, and he said to me that was the best choice to satrt with linux... ande there i am, after one year, this is not chinese for me anymore!! :mrgreen: :D

Thanks

TiLuis

[graabein]

My friend is a GNU/Linux user and I was impressed how far (it seemed to me) advanced it was on the desktop... so when I got internet at home I wanted Linux and not one of the OS's from Microsoft with all the adware and viruses and having to buy new hardware every other year to run a web browser and play some music and maybe type down a document or spreadsheet.

He suggested a couple of distros and I looked them up at work. Ubuntu caught my eye and he said it was pretty new and popular and based on a solid distro (Debian)... That's how I heard about it and why I installed Hoary Hedgehog.

I have also tried Damn Small Linux (DSL) and Knoppix on another machine and I did try SuSE some five-six years ago but then it didn't stick.

I think I'll keep Ubuntu for now but it would be cool to have a play-box and try out Arch or something. For now I dual boot (to play DirectX games on 0Windows XP) so I'm happy with my current setup.

[MethodOne]

I first heard of Ubuntu when I saw someone saying "Go Ubuntu!" in a blog. I switched from Fedora because I didn't want to deal with third-party repositories for most of the apps I wanted.

[Koori23]

Mine was accidental. I basically was leafing through pages in the Computer section at Borders bookstore after my harddrive crashed and I couldn't find my comcast CD to get my Internet working.. I thought "Well, at least I can play with Linux until I get XP connected". I was in the partitioning mood, so I figured "What the hell" and bought the book and loaded the CD.. Low and behold, Ubuntu grabbed my MAC address and my cable modem IP and I was connected to the Internet right after inital setup.. That was in April of this year, I have yet to get my Internet working in XP. I don't see it in my future either. The only reason I don't wipe clean and redo.. I don't know how to, and I don't have a Dapper CD yet..

[cleverselfreferentialname]

I wanted to try a new OS, because I knew everything practical about XP and it was beginning to bore me, so I went to a torrent site, isohunt I think, and I downloaded the first Linux iso there was, Lunar Linux.

As you can imagine, it didn't go well.

I was having a conversation with a friend when I decided to ask him what distribution his brother was using. He responded "Ubuntu. It's supposed to be easier for most people."

And a movement was born.

[Carrots171]

Someone made an X cursor theme featuring a spinning Ubuntu logo. I downloaded it because I really liked how the Ubuntu logo looked... and that's where I first heard of Ubuntu.

[Rumor]

I was in a sauna.
Really.

I almost think I want to hear that story. :D

A friend of mine at church told me about this OS that you could get for free and that would even send you the CD free of charge. I looked it up the next day, installed later that week and have not looked back since.

[K.Mandla]

My story is kind of bizarre. My witless employer spent thousands of dollars on software licensing, but left three employees without Photoshop. In the newspaper industry, that's rather like being given a keyboard without the letter 'e' on it.

So I spent some free time looking for a Windows program that was free and could convert to CMYK eps files (which is what we need for another software package my witless employer bought).

That, of course, led me to the GIMP, which worked well. At the time, the home page for the GIMP had a link that said "Ubuntu takes over the world."

You can imagine what happened after that. ;)

[montgoej]

Well, I'll start by saying that I started learning C++ as my first programming language and I wanted to find something with a lot of source code, something big(an OS for example), to look at and learn about how programs are structured and how different people write them. Some of my friends were talking and I told them I was fed up with the fact that the best source code(or so I thought) was not free and it was with M$. I started looking and found Linux. I started with Fedora Core but at the time, I had a really old pc with a 450 meg processor, and with the 4 or 5 fedora core cds I had, when I finally got done downloading and burning, I thought to myself...how the heck am I supposed to run all of this off my old PC with only an 8 gig hard drive?!?! I started looking again, and found Ubuntu(I liked the name really, that's what first attracted me LOL) and I downloaded the Live CD, which blew my mind when it ran on my old PC. I wanted to use it more and maybe install it, but I lost it, and forgot for a while until a few weeks ago, when I found my old CD and remembered that I was a registered user of the forums(on an email account I no longer have). So I decided that once I receive my new pc(any time now) I'm gonna use Ubuntu on it. So basically, I randomly found Ubuntu.

[bruenig]

read about linux somewhere online, looked into it on wikipedia and google searches. Figured I should try, everywhere else on the web seemed to taut ubuntu and there you go.

[kagashe]

Hi,

I bought HP/COMPAQ Presario 2500 Laptop with Mandriva 9.1 tailor made CDs from HP in Sep 2004.

Somehow I reached Distrowatch and learned about Ubuntu in June 2005.

I am here since then using Ubuntu 5.04, 5.10 and now 6.06 on my Laptop.

kagashe

[kilis]

My frend tell linux unbuntu is and in a latvian forum i see linux has 7 viruses I now how is linux cool

[AndyCooll]

After using pirated software for years my conscience got the better of me when I bought a new computer. So I bought an XP licence. However I still didn't want to pay a fortune for all the other software needed so I started searching around for free software. Soon I had a fully functioning ******* box where the only software I'd payed for was the OS itself. Problem was our house has more than one computer in it, so the others were still running on pirated copies of XP.

While searching for free software I'd come across Firefox and Open Office, tried it and liked it. It had also introduced me to the open-source philosophy. I was soon hooked. And eventually of course I was introduced to the ultimate in open-source, the Linux operating system itself.

I tried it (Fedora Core 3 IIRC), found it straightforward (or rather far more straightforward than I was expecting!), and liked it. Having tried one distro I wanted to try more. I then came across Distrowatch and saw that Ubuntu was the most popular so I thought I'd try it. For a comparatively new user, the fact that it "just worked" was wonderful. I'd liked FC, but had a few networking issues. With hindsight I know why, and they weren't anything to do with FC per se, but at the time I didn't know that. Networking with Ubuntu however just seemed so much easier. Indeed just about everything else I've used with Ubuntu has confirmed this.

And from then I haven't looked back. This house is now Linux only.

:cool:

[kopinux]

someone told me about it in the linspire forums when i was a little disapointed about click&run.

am em also a previous pirate.
my options are expensive propriety software or cheap pirate software.
opensource open another door in the middle and it change my computer life.

[UbuntuniX]

someone told me about it in the linspire forums when i was a little disapointed about click&run.

am em also a previous pirate.
my options are expensive propriety software or cheap pirate software.
opensource open another door in the middle and it change my computer life.

Previous pirate?

And why would you PAY for pirated software?

Seriously man, as an experienced pirate I spit on you :mrgreen:

[weekend warrior]

First heard about Ubuntu straight from the horse's mouth back in 2004 on LWN, even still have it bookmarked.
http://lwn.net/Articles/107267

Didn't really take it too seriously though, esp since it started out...


Originally Posted by Mark Shuttleworth
The warm-hearted Warthogs of the Warty Team are proud to present the very first release of Ubuntu!

Warm-hearted warthogs? Warty team?? erm... ok, :-k so I waited a bit to see what these "animals" ;) could come up with.

[lazyd2]

For me it was pure luck...:mrgreen:

[mekas2024]

For me was like one more option after try fedora, suse, mandrake and always have a diferent problem with each one distro, and then a friend told me that ubuntu rocks and everything work fine with this distro soo.. i decide to use it ! and since that day my troubles get oveeer!!!

UBUNTU ROOCKs :twisted:

Regards

MeKaS

[sagarhshah]

For me I was looking for a very lean distrubution that didnt have multiple applications for the same purpose and also something like debian but more stable and read about it on one of the debian forums.

[Lord Illidan]

I had a LXF magazine, and it was commenting about this new linux distribution with "pornographic art work", and I was so curious, I had to download it...

And was seriously disappointed by the artwork, but I loved the distro.

[Rule]

Mine was accidental. I basically was leafing through pages in the Computer section at Borders bookstore after my harddrive crashed and I couldn't find my comcast CD to get my Internet working.. I thought "Well, at least I can play with Linux until I get XP connected". I was in the partitioning mood, so I figured "What the hell" and bought the book and loaded the CD.. Low and behold, Ubuntu grabbed my MAC address and my cable modem IP and I was connected to the Internet right after inital setup.. That was in April of this year, I have yet to get my Internet working in XP. I don't see it in my future either. The only reason I don't wipe clean and redo.. I don't know how to, and I don't have a Dapper CD yet..

you dont need a dapper CD just edit your /etc/apt/sources.list with "dapper" from "breezy" or whatever your using :mrgreen:

[rattlerviper]

I first learned of Ubuntu a few months ago. After having wanted to switch away from micro$oft products for years(since 2001), I did a internet search for easiest linux to learn downloaded a bunch of live cds and tried them all out. Ubuntu quickly rose to the top! Ubuntu was certainly not as hard as Suse or redhat was back in 2001! Now windows is gone from my computer.:cool:

[dada1958]

I read about Ubuntu in macosx.nl, I wanted something different and I was getting a little bit tired of Buying Different...

[ahaslam]

I was quite happy with YOPER until I found Distrowatch a few months ago. I then tried out all of the top 10 and settled with Ubuntu.

Tony.

[kadymae]

How did you first find ubuntu?



OS News had an article about this pending distribution and they would mail you a free CD.

I thought "Oh, why not?"

The rest is history.

[BugenhagenXIII]

About a year ago I took my first CompSci course. When we were in the labs we used Gentoo linux. Over winter break I read up on documentation for Gentoo, planning on attempting an install when I got back on campus. The first lab of the next semester, I noticed they were using Ubuntu. I figured I'd use that, so that if I had any problems I'd ask the guys that ran the lab. Little did I know that all the help I would ever need was on these forums. I've been using Ubuntu ever since.

[TwistesdTexan]

I was using Mepis and wasn't very happy with it.So I went to try to find a book to learn more about Linux and there was a magazine with a free install disk glued to the cover. The article boosted the best linux distro ever and an award winner. I bought the Magazine. Breezy Badger 5.10. IU still have the disk and think I'll keep it. So it was ''Books A Million''.:)

[Compucore]

I had heard about it through a email that I had gotten from Lockergnome the last few years and it was in their linux section. And I thought to give it a try over here. That is when I had ordered the cd's to tr4y out over here.

Compucore

[Obor]

From the "The 100 Best Products of 2005" in PCWorld.com (it was on No. 26)