Ubuntu’s 5th Birthday Today - What a Crazy 5 Years It’s Been!

[spursncowboys]

Ubuntu’s 5th Birthday Today - What a Crazy 5 Years It’s Been! (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/ubuntus-5th-birthday-today-and-what.html)
[Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | View Comments (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/10/ubuntus-5th-birthday-today-and-what.html#disqus_thread) ]


Ubuntu is officially 5 years old today. Five years! Can you believe that?

Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog was released on the 20th October 2004.

Since then Ubuntu has hopped, skipped and jumped a hell of a long way. We have graphical installers, a graphical boot screen, WUBI, netbook remixes, easy installation of graphic drivers, a modern sound system in PulseAudio – all things that weren’t included in Ubuntu until various later releases!

I first hopped aboard the Ubuntu wagon during Gutsy, but i am aware of the awesome legacy that each successive release has helped to build, so let’s get all dreamy-eyed and nostalgic and take a quick look back at the releases so far…
Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog - 20th October 2004

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hHqU3JRI/AAAAAAAAD5Y/eBuao-vD-Sg/4.10_warty_thumb3.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hGjjMpPI/AAAAAAAAD5U/81FSpVicvtc/s1600-h/4.10_warty5.png)
Notes: -


The first release of Ubuntu
First distro to be released using Gnome 2.8
Firefox 0.9 default browser.
Gaim was default IM client.



Ubuntu 5.10 Hoary Hedgehog - 8th April 2005

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hKbRDk8I/AAAAAAAAD5g/QpiOs0F4rvA/5.04_hoary_thumb%5B7%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hJVkIV5I/AAAAAAAAD5c/1iny6A2M5RE/s1600-h/5.04_hoary%5B6%5D.png)Notes: -


Introduced Update Manager
Suspend, hibernate and standby included
Firefox 1.0 default browser
First release using XORG




Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) 12th October 2005

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hNJao7WI/AAAAAAAAD5o/V9PN-PfkUOs/5.10_breezy_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hMftTDgI/AAAAAAAAD5k/iUfVf-Bd0GU/s1600-h/5.10_breezy%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


First release using graphical Bootloader ‘Usplash’
Add/remove introduced
Firefox 1.0 default browser








Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake - 1st June 2006

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hQtvTROI/AAAAAAAAD5w/LzgLwBr9IHA/6.06_dapper_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hPlKTJhI/AAAAAAAAD5s/KwRY1yuvTiE/s1600-h/6.06_dapper%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


First Long Term Support release
merged LiveCD and Install CD into one
GUI for installation
Introduction of the orange humanlooks theme
GDebi introduced for GUI installation of .debs
Firefox 1.5





Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft - 26 October 2006

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hTHXtXpI/AAAAAAAAD54/-G3RpT8Bk3Y/6.10_edgy_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hSYiDLLI/AAAAAAAAD50/FgBmqPQySb8/s1600-h/6.10_edgy%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


newly refreshed human theme
tomboy and f-spot now included by default
Firefox 2.0







Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn – 19th April 2007

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hVyyWGoI/AAAAAAAAD6A/5odnidU_0aw/7.04_feisty_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hU382UwI/AAAAAAAAD58/fSJuzNwjbO8/s1600-h/7.04_feisty%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


Introduced the Migration assistant for new users
Assisted codec installation
Simplifed install of Graphics Drivers
Firefox 2.0 default Browser







Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon - 18th October 2007

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hX15St7I/AAAAAAAAD6I/j5GOMXjKhcM/7.10_gutsy_thumb%5B10%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hXA66o_I/AAAAAAAAD6E/AYpBAUpIT0A/s1600-h/7.10_gutsy%5B6%5D.png) Notes: -


AppArmor security, desktop search & Ubufox Firefox add-on added
Compiz enabled by default
Fast user switching
Firefox 2.0


Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron – 24th April 2008

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hZki6WFI/AAAAAAAAD6Q/HX8dSRiGZOE/8.04_hardy_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hZESgXmI/AAAAAAAAD6M/hNDRFQFsJJs/s1600-h/8.04_hardy%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


Second long-term release.
news apps included: brasero, tracker & transmission
First release to use PulseAudio by default
First release supporting WUBI
Firefox 3.0 Beta default browser


Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex 30th October 2008

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3heRTX4hI/AAAAAAAAD6c/p0GYJpqMi8g/8.10_intrepid_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh6.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hc89h7zI/AAAAAAAAD6U/LcE3gxMHGw4/s1600-h/8.10_intrepid%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


New apps: LiveUSB creator & fast-user-switch-applet
Introduces “guest account” feature
Firefox 3.0 default browser








Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope – 23 April 2009

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hhN1ZBbI/AAAAAAAAD6k/yGouNLlRABQ/9.04_jaunty_thumb%5B6%5D.png?imgmax=800 (http://lh4.ggpht.com/_FJH0hYZmVtc/St3hgc-VvOI/AAAAAAAAD6g/NyAVPqYq06A/s1600-h/9.04_jaunty%5B5%5D.png)Notes: -


Brings new Usplash and login screen
Introduces NotifyOSD notifications
Includes several community-themes by default
Firefox 3.0 default browser

[koriwhat]

:)

[baseline bum]

I love Ubuntu; it's so easy to use, and has been the fourth UNIX I've used a lot of. Of the four I've used for the last 10 years, it's definitely my favorite. I was a huge Slackware fan and used it as my first UNIX for years, but finally dropped it when they kept dragging their feet on putting the 2.6 kernel in the stable branch. I switched to Linux From Scratch because it had the 2.6 kernel and was blazingly fast in comparison to every other distro out there (even Slackware). LFS was a huge pain to set up (especially compiling all of Gnome), but was awesome once you got it working.

Still, I gave OpenBSD a try and loved everything about it except for their refusal to use binary video drivers, which made the graphics look HORRIBLE. Still, you can tell OpenBSD is put out by people who have the highest standards of quality: for instance, their manpages are brilliantly written and make Linux manpages look like the work of 12 year-olds. When I looked at some of OpenBSD's C library, it was about the most beautiful and clear ANSI-C I'd ever seen in a non-trivial library. If they'd ever get their video drivers up to spec, I'd go back to it in a second.

Back to Linux, I got frustrated with getting headaches from the bad refresh rates when running OpenBSD on the desktop, so I went back to LFS but hated how much of a pain setting up modular X and multilib was. I decided to give Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex a try, and I couldn't believe I found a mainstream distro that seemed as fast as LFS without all the headaches (especially after HATING Fedora Core's clunkiness and difficulty of use and Gentoo being even more complicated than LFS without offering any real advantages).

[TDMVPDPOY]

whats the procedure to install it?

i got a cd here, but never had the opportunity to install and test it

[rold50]

Just boot using that CD. Then choose install.

[TDMVPDPOY]

Just boot using that CD. Then choose install.

do i need to format hdd,

then insert cd, d:\dir watever then d:\setup?

[rold50]

No. You boot it with that. put the cd in your computer and then restart. Make sure your PC is set to boot from the CD first and not from your HD.

You don't have to format it. It will give you the choice to format it when you start the installation process.

[spursncowboys]

Ubuntu 8.04 is what I started with. I love it and have learned so much about computers in every aspect. I was a stereotypical Windows user who only knew how to click on something and hope it worked. I have upgraded to 8.10 and then 9.04. I was going to stick with 9.04 until the next LTR comes up but really want to try out the one line PPA in the 9.10. Plus all the hype is starting to get to me.
I would love to be able to use CLI for everything.

[baseline bum]

I would love to be able to use CLI for everything.

This is THE authority for using the bash shell (freely available online too):

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (http://tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/)

Once you get used to using bash (GNU/Linux) or the Korn shell (UNIX), it's really hard to go back to Windows without it.