Kevin Carmony left the chief executive position at Linspire 3.5 months ago, and already seems to have lost all faith in the company. Carmony (pictured below) on Wednesday admitted that Ubuntu has become his new love, he admitted on an Ubuntu mailing list.

"Now that I'm no longer the CEO of Linspire, or under any obligation to use that particular distribution, I thought I should take some time and look around at all the distributions and decide which one was right for me and my PC. In addition to already being quite familiar with Linspire and Freespire, I also looked at Novell/Suse, Red Hat/Fedora, PC Linux, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu.

18 Oct 2007

Well, after all my research, I have to tell you, it was an easy choice. Ubuntu! I'm excited for the new release in a few days, which I will use to replace the many Linux desktop and laptop PCs I own (five).

Canonical and Ubuntu have done so many things right. I was very proud of many of the things I was able to accomplish at Linspire, but it's no longer the distro for me."

Evidence is piling up that Linspire is doomed. The company was founded by Michael Robertson, who cashed a cool $103m when mp3.com was acquired by Vivendi Universal. Robertson left shortly after Linspire failed to go public.

Linspire never was a viable Linux vendor, but merely an attempt to cash out on the Linux hype. Robertson struck gold with mp3.com, but has yet to repeat this success with any of his other companies.

hat tip: desktop Linux