Ubuntu is a DebianLinux-based LinuxDistribution. It is developed by Canonical, a company founded by South African philanthropist Mark Shuttleworth, who made a lot of money off Thawte. 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 Linux distributions. Because of this, WLUG have adopted is as their official supported distribution for the 2005 Installfest.

Warty Warthog release

• Interview with Jeff Waugh (an Ubuntu team member).
• Review at Extreme Tech
• Review at USALug
• Review at OSNews

See also UbuntuNotes.

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