Ubuntu: Linux's Obama (Sort Of)
What is it about Ubuntu that has generated such excitement about Linux? To steal a word from Obama's playbook, "Change."
In the four years it's been around, Ubuntu's managed to set itself apart from the rest of the Linux distributions out there by dint of two things: it evolves, and it evolves on a fairly aggressive schedule. They don't let things languish. Part of that is because they have solid backing and a broadening circle of support from the industry, but I'm inclined to believe it's also because they don't just sit around and say "Good enough." They ask, "What can we do now?"
The way Ubuntu has flourished, even without stuff like this yet added to it, is a source of great hope for everyone who cares about open source. It shows that it's not just possible to put something like this out there, but have it flourish and even have it picked up and re-used by commercial partners (e.g., Dell (Dell), or the Wal-Mart PC).
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