"Ubuntu Linux is a new Debian-based distro sponsored by Canonical Ltd. I spent a week using Ubuntu and came away impressed, despite some of its obvious teething pains.
"Ubuntu is a purely GNOME-based distro. The release that I used, the whimsically named Warty Warthog 4.10, ships with GNOME 2.8 and kernel 2.6.8.1 and includes a host of popular application packages..."