December 4, 2005
Excellent Marketing from Ubuntu
As a Gentoo user for a lot of years now, I’ve not been trying other distros but I’ve heard about the ‘end’ of RedHat and read how Fedora was born as well as a lot of other tales on Linux Distros. More recently there has been a lot of fuss about the Ubuntu Linux Distro and while reading an article online I noticed Ubuntu was shipping CDs free of charge and I though to myself “How is this possible???”. But it is true!!!
I could not resist the fact to ask for some, not only for my personal curiosity but also to distribute to my most eager students. I’m sure they will like a Linux CD at the end of the semester.
One thing I’m sure, it’s difficult to beat this kind of merchandising… Hope Gentoo opens its eyes ASAP.
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hav0x said,
December 5, 2005 at 12:11 am
Gentoo ou qualquer outra distro popular a fazer a distribuição gratuita de cds é altamente improvavel. Só de pensar nos numeros dos custos (cd printing shipping) dá-me dores de cabeça.
O caso do Ubuntu é muito especifico. Tem gente por traz a meter dinheiro naquilo sem esperar lucro. (O Sr Marc Shuttleworth é amigo =) )
The Minority Blog » Ubuntu arrives… said,
January 2, 2006 at 10:57 pm
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