I got a new laptop recently, and realized that I didn't have a Maverick cd lying around. So while I was waiting for the iso to download, I popped in a Jaunty li

I got a new laptop recently, and realized that I didn't have a Maverick cd lying around. So while I was waiting for the iso to download, I popped in a Jaunty live cd, then a Lucid live cd. I was pleasantly surprised to discover the incredible progress that the distro has made over the past few releases. I feel like Lucid was the release where it really came of age, and everything started working beautifully. More than anything else, just looking at the speed at which device support is added(often with no cooperation from the OEMs) gives you a real feel for the pace of the community's work. This post is a great example of the great state of Ubuntu- the author has little more than nits to pick against it. I am incredibly happy with my choice of OS, and the state of desktop linux.