ten billion butterfly sneezes

I’m seeing all kinds of articles on Ubuntu in my feedreader here of late. I’ve used it only lightly, as I detailed here, and have generally been pleased with it. It runs well on our group aging POS Dell laptop at work, where we use it mainly for minicom and serial terminal kinds of applications. It’s responsive, the desktop is good-looking, and OSX like, you sudo to root to do potentially devastating things on the system. If we weren’t a Red Hat shop, I’d spend a lot more time learning its finer points.

One article in the reader grabbed my attention today; it was titled Ubuntu World Domination in Progress, which was generally supportive, somewhat tongue-in-cheek in tone, and contained the following priceless quote regarding the nearly evangelistic fervor of the Ubuntu faithful:

Think Jehova’s Witnesses in brown and orange suits knocking on your door on a Sunday morning, glaring at you with a psychotic smile, offering you the good book (and free live cd) of Ubuntuness. Chapter 1 verse 4; Thou shalt use gksudo with graphical apps.

-k-

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