A year after creating an online open-source software development community to take on SourceForge.net and other rivals, the development team at Ubuntu Linux will be the first to admit that they still have a long way to go to achieve the popularity of their competitors.
Ubuntu's beta community, called Launchpad, debuted last July and has seen a huge increase in the number of open source projects under development, from 1,500 projects at the start to about 7,000 today.
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