Hanging with Feisty Fawn

No, I'm not talking about some weird cartoon porno. Feisty Fawn is the newest distribution of Ubuntu Linux, one of the more popular Linux offerings. I upgraded my PC last week and I've got to say that this is by far the best Linux distribution I've ever used.

Now, I know everyone has their own flavor of Linux. Uber enthusiasts and power users tend to congregate around Debian and Gentoo. There are a lot of purists who seem to like Slackware. But if you want a system that just seems to work with a minimal amount of tweaking then Ubuntu is for you.

That's not to say that you can't tweak Ubuntu. You can and I have. But a majority of users out there don't want to fiddle with an OS to get it to work. When the average person hears Bourne and Daemon, they think of a movie based on a series of Robert Ludlum books. These are the people you need to reach if Linux ever has a chance at mainstream adoption. Joe User could care less about the philosophy of open source or the performance benefits of Linux.

While Ubuntu 7.04 has taken a giant leap forward in terms of the "just works" factor, it isn't quite ready for the masses. For one, Ubuntu is capable of looking just as sexy as Vista or OS X but getting it to look that way takes a bit of know how. Also, there are some codecs that still aren't installed by default. While there may be legal reasons for this it still annoys me.

One thing above all else convinces me that the world is almost ready for Ubuntu. I've finally got my wife using it. Check out the his and her Ubuntu Desktops below: