I'm no expert on Linus, but in a few hours that I have been playing with it, it is very, very impressive. The desktop is beautiful. Even the fonts show up well.

Grogan, you might even like this one!

The installation is so smooth, I had to do nothing other than provide my name, etc. The moment my desktop shows up, I got an instant connection to the internet! Two of my printers, HP and Canon, both show up and I test print it and it works!

If this smoothness continues - as I expect - I would move on to Ubuntu without looking back at XP or Vista! Some of my favorite software may not work in Ubuntu, that's one concern. I'll check it it out, but so far, the basics are all in place.



http://www.ubuntu.com
http://Softpedia.com (go to "News" for a writeup and read "Windows Vista Killers: Ubuntu 7.10 ..."