More like this    The Noughties weren't always nice  Linux
distro of the decade: Ubuntu  Linux was the maverick operating
system of the late 1990s, with Red Hat and SuSE emerging as the
leaders and everyone else falling in between.  By the early to
mid Noughties, things had settled down into a tired cycle of
predictability: Red Hat was trying much too hard to be a
responsible "platform company" along the lines of IBM. SuSE had
the excitement and love squeezed out of it when it was bought by
Novell. Then Novell entered a controversial interoperability
pact with Microsoft - the Anti-Linux.  Enter Ubuntu, a distro
that has recaptured the energy of the 1990s. It started as a
grassroots geek movement, but soon its polish and relative
simplicity was grabbing "regular" users. Plus, it was captained
by the awfully charming Mark Shuttleworth, who knows that to
make Linux a success you need to break with the polemics of the
past, the tired messages that Windows is bad, that this is the
year of the Linux desktop.  For a