5 years later, 5 ways that Ubuntu has made Linux more human

Posted by r11t on Friday October 23, 2009 @12:06PM
from the arstechnica.com dept.

http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/10/5-years-later-5-ways-that-ubuntu-has-made-linux-more-human.ars

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Re:5 years later, 5 ways that Ubuntu has made Linux more human by aufreak2 on Friday October 23, 2009 @01:01PM (#899138)

My mom - yes that's right - my MOM runs Ubuntu on her laptop for email and watching videos off the net. As long as she sees Firefox, she's happy. I recently wiped her machine clean of Windows XP and installed Ubuntu 'cos the virus scanner was complaining a lot. Thanks Ubuntu!

Fine print: It took some geekery to get the plugins needed to play youtube stuff. Haven't quite sorted out DVD playing yet.

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Re:5 years later, 5 ways that Ubuntu has made Linux more human by pluc on Friday October 23, 2009 @12:39PM (#899093)

1. People 2. Are 3. Actually 4. Using 5. It

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