Vignatti: X Census (for 1.9)

as someone who has been using linux since the SLS days, I can say that the reason I have the people I support running ubuntu has nothing to do with the free CD program and everything to do with the fact that they very quickly jumped into the lead in terms of making a distro that would 'just work' without me needing to tweak things for the particular hardware.

Since then the other distros have improved in this area, but given the rate of progress prior to ubuntu, I definantly credit them with spurring progress in this area.