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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''. The Ubuntu Linux distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.”
+ “''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
([GNOME] 2
.8
) 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
it will be interesting
to see where
it is in another 6 months time
.
+Also,
a quote from Mark about Canonical making money from support
(from a
[slashdot interview|http://interviews
.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/04/04/1859255]
)::
+ “I'd very much like
to make
the distro project sustainable ~[
...] If it doesn't work out that way, though, I'm honoured
to consider it
a gift back to the open source world
, which played such
a critical role
in helping me build Thawte. So I hope
it's commerce, though
it may turn out
to be philanthropy. Either way,
it's still cheaper than going back to space, or hooking up with fast planes/boats/women, which I supposed would be Plan B
.”
-You can read an
[Interview with Jeff Waugh | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8286
] (
an [
Ubuntu] team member
). There are
also reviews at…
+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].
-* [Extreme Tech | http://www.extremetech.com/article2/,1558,1651228,00.asp]
-* [USALug | http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4125]
-* [OSNews | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8407]
+!Warty Warthog release
+
+* [Interview with Jeff Waugh | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8286] (an [Ubuntu] team member).
+
* [Review at
Extreme Tech | http://www.extremetech.com/article2/,1558,1651228,00.asp]
+* [Review at
USALug | http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4125]
+* [Review at
OSNews | http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8407]
+
+See also UbuntuNotes.
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