Today is Ubuntu's 19th birthday! Yes, you read that right: nine-freakin’-teenth. October 20, 2004 was when Ubuntu 4.10 arrived, codenamed 'Warty Warthog'
Like others, I remember when they were the new exciting upcoming distro. Though Fedora was my main daily driver at the time, I test drove 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) - it came with a video of Nelson Mandela (unless I'm embarrassingly misremembering), I still have the CD somewhere.
I ended up eventually using the LTS's 6.06 (Dapper Drake), 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for a lot of things, good memories, until eventually falling out with them over Unity and the Amazon thing.
Like others, I remember when they were the new exciting upcoming distro. Though Fedora was my main daily driver at the time, I test drove 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog) - it came with a video of Nelson Mandela (unless I'm embarrassingly misremembering), I still have the CD somewhere.
I ended up eventually using the LTS's 6.06 (Dapper Drake), 8.04 (Hardy Heron) for a lot of things, good memories, until eventually falling out with them over Unity and the Amazon thing.