Hardy Heron

Ubuntu 8.04 - the Hardy Heron with graphic card


Ubuntu - 4 Rotate Desktop

Updating Time..

Updating process in ubuntu..

Backing and Support

* Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings!

Ubuntu is maintained by a quickly growing community.
The project is sponsored by Canonical Ltd., a
holding company founded by Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical
employs the core Ubuntu developers and offers support and consulting services
for Ubuntu.


Canonical Ltd. also sponsors a number of other Open Source software projects, about which more information can be found on the Canonical website.

Free Software

* Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings!

The Ubuntu project is entirely committed to the
principles of free software development; people
are encouraged to use free software, improve it,
and pass it on.


"Free software" doesn't mean that you shouldn't have to pay for it (although Ubuntu is committed to being free of charge as well); it means that you should be able to use the software in any way you wish: the code that makes up free software is available for anyone to download, change, fix, and use in any way. Alongside ideological benefits, this freedom also has technical advantages: when programs are developed, the hard work of others can be used and built upon. With non-free software, this cannot happen and when programs are developed, they have to start from scratch. For this reason the development of free software is fast, efficient and exciting!


You can find out more about free software and the ideological and technical philosophy behind it at the GNU website.

About the "Ubuntu" Name

* Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings!

Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on
people's allegiances and relations with each other. The
word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu
(pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is seen as a
traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the
founding principles of the new republic of South Africa
and is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance.


A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is
"humanity towards others". Another
translation could be: "the belief in a
universal bond of sharing that connects all
humanity".





"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed."




Archbishop Desmond Tutu

As a platform based on Linux, the Ubuntu
operating system brings the spirit of ubuntu to the software
world.

Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings!

Ubuntu 8.04
- the Hardy Heron - released in April 2008.


Ubuntu is an entirely open source operating system built around the
Linux kernel. The Ubuntu community is built around the ideals enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be
available free of charge, that software tools should be usable
by people in their local language and despite any disabilities,
and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter
their software in whatever way they see fit. For those reasons:


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Ubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is
no extra fee for the "enterprise
edition", we make our very best work
available to everyone on the same Free terms.


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Ubuntu includes the very best in translations and
accessibility infrastructure that the free software
community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable for as
many people as possible.


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Ubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a
new release is made every six months. You can use
the current stable release or the current
development release. Each release is supported for
at least 18 months.


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Ubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of
open source software development; we encourage
people to use open source software, improve it and
pass it on.






Find out more at the Ubuntu website.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

What is GNU?

* Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings!

The GNU Project, pronounced “guh-noo”, was
launched in 1984 to develop a complete
UNIX style operating system which is comprised of free software: the GNU
system. Variants of the GNU operating system,
which use the Linux kernel, are now widely used.


The GNU project is closely linked to the philosophy of free
software, which is central to the projects that derive from it,
such as Ubuntu. The concept of free software is explained
at Section 2 ― Free Software.