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.

What is Linux?

* Ubuntu - Linux for Human Beings!

The Linux kernel, pronounced
'linnuks' is the heart of the Ubuntu operating system.
A kernel is an important part of
any operating system, providing the communication bridge between
hardware and software.


Linux was brought to life in 1991 by a Finnish student named
Linus Torvalds. At the time, it would run only on i386 systems,
and was essentially an independently created clone of the UNIX
kernel, intended to take advantage of the then-new i386
architecture.


Nowadays, thanks to a substantial amount of development
effort by people all around the world, Linux runs on virtually
every modern architecture.


The Linux kernel has gained an ideological importance as well as a technical one.
There is an entire community of people who believe in the ideals
of free software and spend their time helping to make open
source technology as good as it can be.


People in this community gave rise to initiatives such as
Ubuntu, standards committees that shape the development of the
Internet, organizations like the Mozilla Foundation, responsible
for creating Mozilla Firefox, and countless other software
projects from which you've certainly benefited in the past.


The spirit of open source, commonly attributed to Linux, is
influencing software developers and users everywhere to drive
communities with common goals.

how to set up ip address in ubuntu ultimate

1. click on the network icon and select manual configuration.

2. select wired connection..

3. open the connection setting.

4. select the static ip address and enter ur ip address.

5. select DNS tab and enter the DNS number.. click on add button, type the DNS number then press ENTER (not the ADD button).

how to preview ubuntu ultimate interface (dedicated to oni)

1. set priority boot to cd-rom or dvd drive.

2. insert ubuntu ultimate dvd into the dvd drive and let ur system boot from the dvd.

3. enter the first option on the screen.

4. loading...

5. welcome to the ubuntu ultimate desktop. this is for preview interface only (not install yet in ur pc) but u can start using this ubuntu for surfing the internet and chatting with ur friends by set up the ip address. from the desktop u can see the "install" icon. once u click this icon u are ready to install ubuntu ultimate in ur pc. so make sure u've back up ur file and the data on ur hardisk first.. good luck oni!

i've received my ubuntu live cd from them!

ubuntu is a free OS and it tell u to pass it on to ur friends.. ubuntu is better than win xp or vista..

My Ubuntu