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[Ubuntu | http://www.ubuntulinux.org/] is a DebianLinux-based LinuxDistribution. It is developed by [Canonical | http://www.canonical.com/], a company founded by South African philanthropist [Mark Shuttleworth | http://www.markshuttleworth.com/], who made a lot of money off [Thawte | http://www.thawte.com]. According to its site,
“''Ubuntu'' is an African word, meaning ''Humanity To Others''. Ubuntu also means ''I am what I am because of who we all are''. The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.”
-One of Ubuntu's main strengths is bringing a nice up to date DesktopEnvironment (each [GNOME] release is followed closely by an Ubuntu release) to the architecture and package breadth of DebianLinux. Ubuntu is also committed to a 6 month release cycle, with 18 months of security and dataloss upgrades. While still a very young LinuxDistribution in the scheme of things it has a lot of potential and has very quickly become one of the most popular and successful LinuxDistributions
. Because of this, WLUG have adopted is as their official supported distribution for the [2005 Installfest|InstallFest.2005-05-07].
+One of Ubuntu's main strengths is bringing a nice up to date DesktopEnvironment (each [GNOME] release is followed closely by an Ubuntu release) to the architecture and package breadth of DebianLinux. Ubuntu is also committed to a 6 month release cycle, with 18 months of security and dataloss upgrades. While still a very young LinuxDistribution in the scheme of things it has a lot of potential and has very quickly become one of the most popular and successful Linux distributions
. Because of this, WLUG have adopted is as their official supported distribution for the [2005 Installfest|InstallFest.2005-05-07].
!Warty Warthog release
* [Interview with Jeff Waugh | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8286] (an [Ubuntu] team member).
