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Ubuntu is a Linux operating system based on desktop applications. Its name comes from the southern African word "Ubuntu" (translated as Ubuntu or Ubuntu) in Zulu or Hausa, meaning "human nature" and "I exist because everyone exists". It is the traditional value of Africa, similar to the thought of "benevolence" in Chinese society. Ubuntu is based on the Debian distribution and the GNOME desktop environment, and unlike Debian, it releases a new version every six months. The goal of Ubuntu is to provide the average user with a up-to-date and fairly stable operating system, mainly built by free software. Ubuntu has great community power, and users can easily get help from the community.

About the word Ubuntu

Ubuntu is a national concept in South Africa, focusing on loyalty and connection between people.

Ubuntu's new LOGO comes from Zulu and Xhosa. Ubuntu (pronounced 'oo-boon-too'-'Ubuntu' and Mandela pronounced / u3360bu3360tu3360/all u pronounced / wu3360/ in the built-in video) is regarded as a traditional African philosophy and one of the basic principles for the establishment of a new Republic of South Africa, closely linked to the ideal of African renaissance. The Ubantu spirit means "treat others humanely" (treat others well). Another translation could be: "the belief shared by the world connects everyone." A person with a ubuntu spirit is open-minded and helpful. He / she is not jealous of his / her talent because he / she has moderate self-confidence, which comes from realizing that he / she belongs to a larger whole, which disappears when others are hurt or killed and others are tortured or oppressed. " Archbishop Desmond Tutu. As a GNU/Linux-based platform, ubuntu operating system brings Ubuntu spirit to the software world.

Free software

The Ubuntu project fully follows the principles of open source software development and encourages people to use, improve, and disseminate open source software. In other words, Ubuntu is and will always be free. However, this does not just mean zero cost. The idea of free software is that people should be free to use software in all ways that are "socially useful". "free software" doesn't just mean you don't have to pay for it. It also means that you can use the software the way you want: anyone can download, modify, revise and use the code that makes up the free software in any way. So, in addition to the fact that free software is often provided free of charge, this freedom has a technical advantage: when developing a program, you can use the work of others, or develop on that basis. For non-free software, this is impossible. When developing programs, people have to start from scratch. For the above reasons, the development of free software is rapid, efficient and exciting!

Difference

There are a large number of GNU/Linux-based operating systems, such as Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, RedHat, Mandriva and so on. Ubuntu is another participant in an already competitive world. So why is Ubuntu different? Debian is a well-received, technologically advanced and well-supported distribution. Ubuntu is based on Debian and aims to create a Linux system that provides the latest and consistent desktops and servers. Ubuntu contains a large number of carefully selected packages for Debian distributions, while retaining Debian's powerful package management system, making it easy to install or completely remove programs. Unlike most distributions, which have a large number of software available and unneeded, Ubuntu's package list contains only those high-quality important applications. Focused on quality, Ubuntu provides a robust, feature-rich computing environment that is suitable for both home and business environments. This project requires a lot of necessary time and excellence, releasing a version every half a year to provide the latest and most powerful software. Ubuntu supports a variety of architectures, including i386 (386 Compact 486 / Pentium (II/III/IV) and Athlon/Duron/Sempron processors), AMD64 (Athlon64, Opteron and 64-bit Intel processors), PowerPC (iBook/PowerBook, G4 and G5), etc.

Desktop environment

The default desktop environment for Ubuntu is GNOME (GNU Network object Model Environment), which is a mainstream desktop suite and a development platform for UNIX and Linux. Unity has been the default desktop environment since ubuntu11.04, and another mainstream desktop environment for UNIX and Linux is KDE (K Desktop Environment). There is also the mainstream Linux desktop environment xfce (a lightweight desktop environment where xfce under ubuntu is developed by xubuntu). The Kubuntu project and the xubuntu project provide ubuntu users with options in addition to the default GNOME desktop environment. Thanks to the efforts of the Kubuntu project team and the xubuntu project, ubuntu users can now easily install and use KDE and xfce desktops on their systems. To install the available Kubuntu or xubuntu based on ubuntu, you must install the kubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop package. After installing this package, you can choose to use Gnome, KDE and xfce desktop environments as you like.

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