Re: WTF is it with ubuntu?
On 2008-10-12, notbob <notbob@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2008-10-12, Bob Cortopassi <bobernet@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why so upset? If Slackware is the bee's knees on your hardware, then
don't switch. I prefer Debian to either, although my wife's laptop
runs Xubuntu. Choice is great, and we have many distros to thank for
that, including Ubuntu.
Why IS ubuntu so popular? I can get a dozen distros to boot on any of my
machines. Why does not ubuntu boot on any? That is my question.
It wouldn't be popular if it didn't boot for most people who try it.
I presume that you check the md5sums when you burn the cds?
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