A brief « Linux on the desktop » retrospective
by Ploum on 2005-10-04
2002 – Debian

Debian, the OS your mother would use if it was 20 times easier.
2005 – Ubuntu

Mom ! Please ! Get away from my computer, I have important stuffs[1] to do ! MOM ! PLEAAAAASE !
Notes
[1] Reading slashdot and planet.gnome, for example
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