> I don't understand what Ubuntu's competitive advantage is. Historically, Linux has always had more distros than the open source community (and the closed-sou

> I don't understand what Ubuntu's competitive advantage is. Historically, Linux has always had more distros than the open source community (and the closed-source-but-targeting-linux community I guess) can support to a high standard. This has meant there is always one leading distro, which everyone packages for and documents for and guides newbie users towards. For a long time this was Red Hat Linux; they decided not to do that any more right about the time Ubuntu came out. Ubuntu has held onto that position up to this day.