Ubuntu Everywhere

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 07:15:42AM -0500, Benj. Mako Hill wrote:

> Jesús Climent and I were on the train from Barcelona to Valencia where
> I'll be spending the week with Jordi Mallach.
> 
> In the seat in front of us were two people who took out a
> computer. Jesús and I each recognized a Debian bootloader (although
> the person chose to go into Windows :)). When we asked later in the
> trip about if they were using Debian, they said no, Ubuntu! Both of
> them are learning GNU/Linux now with no experience and they heard
> Ubuntu was a good place to start!

I believe Thom had a similar experience at a small computer store in Spain.

Also, at an electronics shop in Barcelona, we spoke with an employee in the
Macintosh section, who used three operating systems: Windows, MacOS X, and
Ubuntu.  He very much liked the live CD, and discussed with us some ideas
for future improvements.

Everywhere indeed!

-- 
 - mdz