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Today is Ubuntu's 20th Anniversary

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243 points aquova | 2 comments | 20 Oct 24 21:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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neom ◴[20 Oct 24 22:36 UTC] No.41899065[source]▶
I'm sure lots of people have lots of thoughts on them, but personally I'd like to give a shout out to Canonical. At least from my perspective in the early days of DigitalOcean the few interactions I did have with them were super positive, they seemed to really want us to win. I'll always have a soft spot Ubuntu and as far as community stewards go, on average Mark Shuttleworth has been good. Thanks Ubuntu Community! Thanks Mark! Thanks Canonical!

To me Ubuntu is what Mandrake never became.

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1. delduca ◴[20 Oct 24 23:00 UTC] No.41899185[source]▶
I miss Mandrake, after Slackware, it was my first distro!
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2. neom ◴[20 Oct 24 23:09 UTC] No.41899260[source]▶
I learned linux proper because I ordered a mandrake CD in the mail. I saw a friends Slackware and I presumed it was just a "cooler windows" or something, so I ordered Mandrake, installed it, was like uh oh..oooh shit... this isn't windows at all...!!! But I couldn't figure out how to go back to NTFS so I just learned linux instead ha. Doubt I'd be here today if it was not for Mandrake (and basically hand rolling a modem driver).