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Ubuntu Linux (www.ubuntu.com) has experienced a meteoric rise in
popularity since its first release at the end of 2004. Relying on a
constantly expanding number of core developers and contributions
from its growing legion of advocates and users, Ubuntu has become one of
the leading Linux distributions in the world.
???Ubuntu??? is an African word that means ???humanity to others.??? The project
pursues the meaning of its name by:
Making the distribution freely available; in fact, the project will
even mail you pressed CDs without charge (http://shipit
.ubuntu.com).
Providing support for many languages.
Offering features to make it usable by people with disabilities.
Ubuntu is based on Debian GNU/Linux but offers more focused goals than
Debian. The primary goals of Ubuntu are to provide a tested, easy-to-use
Linux distribution with a regular release schedule (every six months), to provide
support and updates for those releases for an extended period of time,
and to fit this easy-to-use desktop Linux on one installation CD. Ubuntu
provides its own repositories of freely available software on the Internet, providing
a huge assortment of software organized in the traditional licensingoriented
Debian fashion. These packages can be installed using the familiar
apt-get, aptitude, and synaptic software management tools.
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