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Ryan Thiessen has published a review of Ubuntu Hoary Array-5 LiveCD



When I heard the first whispers of a new Linux distribution based on Debian that targeted the Gnome desktop and had some of the most active Gnome and Debian developers on board, I was quite excited. When they launched no-name-yet.com to publish patches, I tracked it every day -- and then one day the page changed the contact information gave a clue as to a new domain, canonical.com. Visiting that page I saw that it was clearly still a work in progress, but it gave an even more important clue -- the still-secret name of the new distribution, Ubuntu. Doing a bit of digging I found ubuntu.com, and managed to snag a copy of the early beta, and installed it on a spare PC.
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