There's a short interview with the man behind Ubuntu Linux in LinuxFormat.
It's a quick read here, but here's a sniplet:Quote:

LXF: There are many Linux distributions already. Might it not have made more sense to try to steer one of those towards your vision?
MS: The only one that I thought was really compelling is not steerable! [...]

He has tried SUSE 9.2, 9.3, Linspire 5.0, PCLinuxOS, etc, etc and have troubles. Then he tries Ubuntu Hoary!
Read the short review at Distroreviews:Quote:

Had an Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary CD. Decided to give that a try. Popped the CD into the drive, rebooted, and wow, the install was very straight forward. Following the text based install [...]

Hard Drive Capacity: 3 GB, Ubuntu Linux included, Bootable from any PC supporting USB boot, Carrying bag and accessoires included – it's a weird commercial world we live in!
See the gizmo for yourself here!
Quote:

Although it's one of the smallest portable USB drives, the Ubuntu H2 Micro USB drive can easily handle sharing digital photos, MP3s, [...]

The 3rd Ubuntu conference is now scheduled for 30 Oct – 10 Nov 2005 in Montreal, Canada – especially the “Ubuntu Love Day” sounds promising!
Canonical is proud to announce the third Ubuntu conference! Mostpeople who made it to Sydney and Mataró can vouch for the fact that itwas an intense, productive and fun experience for [...]

OSNews is still searching for “the perfect Linux operating system”, and try to see if Ubuntu 5.04 is the one….It isn't, but it's the closest yet!
Enjoy the review here at OSNews:Quote:

Despite the few problems I had, Ubuntu is good enough for me to continue using for a while, possibly indefinitely if the next release continues [...]

Mark Shuttleworht of Ubuntu has raised a call for help in the Ubuntu community to formulate a national government strategy on Free Software for South Africe. If you are good with words and mind, it's something for you!
This is a mail to the global Ubuntu community, to ask for your help informulating a national government [...]

OSDir has postet a screenshot tour of Colony CD3 – enjoy the brown Ubuntu again!
Enjoy the show here at OSDir!

Colony CD 3, the third milestone release of the Breezy Badger development branch, is now available.
Download from here.
From the release announcement:
Breezy Badger milestone release “Colony 3″ now availableMatt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.comWed Aug 17 15:46:01 CDT 2005
* Previous message: changing the session on the live cd * Next [...]

What you can do with Ubuntu? Put it on a bus and let it go over the city on quarters, offering courses about Internet and OpenOffice.org for poor people in Brazil.
See the forum post here.Quote:

The project is a bus that have 12 pc, it will go over the city on quarters, offering courses about Internet [...]

Short, but interesting – the spanish distribution MoLinux has switched to Ubuntu as the base for their distribution instead of replaced Progeny Linux.
I'm sure that won't make Ian Murdock's temper regarding Ubuntu any better, but you can read a bit more about it at OSDir and enjoy the screenshot tour here.
It's actually a rather old [...]

Distrowatch has interviewed Jonathan Riddell about the Kubuntu distribution (Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome).
A snip from the interview:Quote:

DW: Kubuntu is essentially a project that brought KDE to Ubuntu. How did it all start? Are you on Canonical's payroll or is Kubuntu a purely volunteer effort?
JR: Sometime last year I blogged about a new super [...]

PCBurn has had a thorough (4 pages!) look at Ubuntu Hoary and has several comments about its useability as well as suggestions for improvements.
The positive review concludes that:Quote:

Ubuntu's largest flaw is the lack of a clean installer. Users are required to partition drives and configure settings through a slightly dated Ncurses (text) based interface. Displaying [...]