Why does Linux=Ubuntu?

Has anyone else noticed how in many places throughout the web people equate linux with ubuntu as if they were one and the same?  There are other distributions as well but no one seems to care!  I know that it’s because Ubuntu is currently the most popular distro, but seriously people.  Even the people at lifehacker.com do this.  One thing that bothers me is in reviews of upcoming versions of ubuntu they list new features that are actually new features of gnome or an application.  This wouldn’t be bad if they made that distinction, but they often attribute the changes to ubuntu as if they are the center of development.  Isn’t linux about everyone contributing?  Seriously people…

On a side note, I really dislike seeing ONLY a *.deb file and no source…at least give me the option of compiling it myself if there’s no binary for my distro!  Keep linux open!

Why Linux?

It was a challenge first.  I was bored with Windows, wary of OS X and bored of doing nothing during one summer.

That pretty much sums it up…or at least…that begins it…

Because I had a athlon 64 bit processor on my old laptop I mistakenly thought it would be intelligent to download the 64 bit version of Ubuntu (my first linux distro).  Things didn’t go well, but I was persistent.  After that I tried SuSE and hated it.  At that point I had my priorities mixed up: I wanted my computer to look nicer, and don’t get me wrong, this is nice, but I hadn’t really experimented with the applications that I could choose from in linux.  While I was still trying to figure out SuSE, Compiz first came out.

As you might be able to imagine, it seemed like the coolest thing ever.  At that point, compiz was only available on SuSE so I tried and tried and eventually got it working–my first real success in linux.  I was impressed with how fast it was, the notion that I probably wouldn’t get viruses, and the idea of opensource.

In any case, almost two years later I am still using linux except I am using the Arch Linux distribution because I find it to be the OS that best represents what Linux is all about: Freedom.

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