The up-and-coming
Ubuntu has yet to attain the commercially blessed status of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux and
Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise, which have been in the marketplace years longer and are certified to work with many software and hardware products. But
Canonical's software has built a significant fan base with its twice-yearly updates, user-friendly values and cutesy naming scheme.
Feisty Fawn held up better than the protagonist in the animation
Bambi Meets Godzilla: Canonical put up a bare-bones home page with just a single logo and a list of "mirror" sites from which the software can be downloaded. Still, the site was unavailable for more than half of the day, according to site availability monitoring company
Pingdom.
Ubuntu 'Feisty Fawn' released, hit by traffic