Today I found a review on ExtremeTech for the Ubuntu Linux distribution. According to the article, the developers are working to put the humanity into their distro. With that said, it would appear that the installer could use some work. Having things complicated at the start can be very problematic when you come to the disk partitioning area.

When the topic of Ubuntu Linux came up in our weekly ExtremeTech conference call, there were chuckles and guffaws after my colleagues heard the name of the distro. It didn’t help that the current release is codenamed “Warty Warthog.” Ubuntu is actually a word from the African Nguni language family, meaning “humanity, caring, and harmony”–a fine sentiment to be sure.

The Ubuntu Project is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a company owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical has vowed to keep Ubuntu free: Its business model focuses on selling services rather than selling the Ubuntu distribution itself. Ubuntu is on the bleeding edge of Linux development, incorporating the 2.6 kernel, Gnome 2.8, and Evolution 2.0.