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Description

Ubuntu was created by Mark Shuttleworth to make linux accessible to the masses. The original tag line was " It now goes with a much more tame tag line "Ubuntu is a community developed, linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers". Either way, its main goal is to provide a serious alternative to windows on the desktop.

Adoption

While the ultimate goal is to compete windows everywhere, right now the adoption has been mostly restricted to tech fans. Yet the number of estimated downloads is in the hundreds of thousands

Versions

- kubuntu: ubuntu on the graphical user and desktop environment KDE - xubuntu: ubuntu using the graphical user interface and desktop environment Xfce - edubuntu: the education version of ubuntu - gobuntu: a GNU version of ubuntu that ahderes more strictly to the terms of the GPL license

Competitors

Ubuntu competes with windows, mac, and with other linux distributions - see the complete list of linux distributions for more details

Communities

See the full list of forums and other community sites

See Also

the ubuntu official site