From: Rory Griffin
Url:
Date: 2006-01-24
Subject: What is this?

This isn't an article with substance. On a scale from 1-10 I would give this a 0!

I think there are links to the three web pages the article speaks of. Those front pages there are more inticing than the article you just read.

Very bad. Boo.

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From: Tony Mobily (SUBSCRIBER!)
Url: http://www.mobily.com
Date: 2006-01-25
Subject: Well...

Hello,

True, the article could have much more "substance".

However, it was meant to be a very short article about Ubuntu. There are loads of people out there who don't actually know that Edubuntu, Kumuntu etc. even exist...!

We will talk about Ubuntu more in the future. And yes, we'll do our best to publish interesting material!

Merc.

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From: Dave Guard (SUBSCRIBER!)
Url: www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
Date: 2006-01-25
Subject: I think you missed the links

Rory Griffin says:

"I think there are links to the three web pages the article speaks of."

Have a look at each heading--they are also links. Each of the covered websites have links provided.

This article is supposed to be a brief run down of the sites you should look at if you are thinking of using Ubuntu or if you are interested in finding out more about Ubuntu.

I think it achieves this goal well.

Thanks for reading

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From: Derek
Url:
Date: 2006-01-24
Subject: Where's the beef?

You started off by saying you will explore what makes Ubuntu popular so I was expecting some insight as to why I should try it, but instead, you have only provided some screen shots and talked about 2 other Ubuntu-based distribution.

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From: John Doe
Url:
Date: 2006-01-24
Subject: There is better than Ubuntu

Kubuntu is nice, but an even better KDE based distro is at www.pclinuxonline.com.

You want a finished distro with everything self-configured, this is it.

Word of mouth is the only thing makes Ubuntu/Kubuntu more popular. Once more peoplw starting finding PCLinuxOS, it definetally rise to the top.

It was started by Texstar who years and years ago was the one making those incredible updates for Mandrake.

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From: Ryan
Url:
Date: 2006-01-24
Subject: Thats all?

I think I could have found out all that information from the Ubuntu website. Where are the comparisons to other Debian based distributions, other Education based distributions. Why would someone want to use Ubuntu? That its Debian based and user friendly seems to hardly differentiate it from Linspire or other all-in-one desktop systems.

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From: Joe Anon
Url:
Date: 2006-01-25
Subject: Needs _some_ details. Anything.

I'm sorry but I have to agree. There is essential nothing of interest here. This is like someone passing you in the street and saying, "Hey you should check out ...(something)" , and not telling you why you should, or what is different or interesting about it. Even if it is to just let people know it exists.

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From: Tony Mobily (SUBSCRIBER!)
Url: http://www.mobily.com
Date: 2006-01-26
Subject: OK!

Hello,

OK. We'll keep your suggestion in mind for the next newsletters!

Merc.

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From: Nicolas
Url:
Date: 2006-01-25
Subject: Save

Make some people save some bandwidth and remove this "article"

from the internet. You will also be saving some hard drive

space. This is the worst article that I've ever read in the

10 years that I've been getting online.

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From: Tony Mobily (SUBSCRIBER!)
Url: http://www.mobily.com
Date: 2006-01-26
Subject: It's a newsletter!

Hi,

We have published more than 250 articles. Some of them are bound to be disliked by some readers - sorry about that.

Please do remember that it was only a simple newsletter. A "real" article (published in issue 10) about a Linux distribution is for example:

http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/free_issues/issue_10/jump_to_debian

I hope you'll enjoy our magazine!

Merc.

Ubuntu is a great distro. But I find PCLinuxOS better. May be Ubuntu has become this much popular because of some really good patronage and media attention.