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Steven, I am with you on this one 100%. I don't have any great love of Ubuntu or its derivatives, but they are good, solid distributions nevertheless, and when you put Ubuntu and all of its derivatives together, collectively there has been more distribution related developments, primarily aimed at users in a wide variety of niches. Is Ubuntu the only easy to use distribution? Again, no, but it has had a significant impact on the development of other distributions. So what if they rarely contribute to the kernel. They have contributed as much free marketing as any other company, and possibly more than over half of the existing distributions combined. Does it always mention Linux? No, it doesn't, not any more than Android does, another major contributor to bringing free software technology to more people. Who cares about the names? Who cares about "the love" or "the hate"? As long as stuff goes out under the GPL and is shared so that others can also benefit from good ideas (or change them to make more new ideas), I am all for it!
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