Ubuntu’s 5th Birthday Today - What a Crazy 5 Years It’s Been!
[Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | View Comments ]
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 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- First release using graphical Bootloader ‘Usplash’
- Add/remove introduced
- Firefox 1.0 default browser
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake - 1st June 2006
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- 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
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- newly refreshed human theme
- tomboy and f-spot now included by default
- Firefox 2.0
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn – 19th April 2007
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Brings new Usplash and login screen
- Introduces NotifyOSD notifications
- Includes several community-themes by default
- Firefox 3.0 default browser
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).
whats the procedure to install it?
i got a cd here, but never had the opportunity to install and test it
Just boot using that CD. Then choose install.
do i need to format hdd,
then insert cd, d:\dir watever then d:\setup?
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.
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.
This is THE authority for using the bash s (freely available online too):
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Once you get used to using bash (GNU/Linux) or the Korn s (UNIX), it's really hard to go back to Windows without it.
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