On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 12:22 +1300, Glynn Foster wrote: > Out of curiousity, anyone keeping track of what Ubuntu have done to > become the Linux distribution of choice? From every conversation I've > had with Jeff, he indicates they're not a development team [1] and > they've only been doing some smart integration. An interesting marketing > study at the very least.
As always, there is no simple answer. But I think the keys of today's Ubuntu popularity are: * GNU and Debian-based with 2000+ free developers doing just packaging and integration work; * Great "Humanity" idea; * Lucky Mark Shuttleworth with his team of the best Debian folks; * Right timing. > We have almost all the technology in Solaris > too, we probably just need to do a better job at a) integrating it b) > making it look good c) talking about it. Its not enough... IMHO. -- Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
