Happy Birthday Ubuntu! | Linux Today

Happy Birthday Ubuntu!

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 20, 2009

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“With only nine days left until Karmic Koala’s official
release, it’s time to take a look into the past. Five years ago, on
the 20th of October, 2004, Mark Shuttleworth and the “warm-hearted
Warthogs” from the developer team announced the first official
Ubuntu release. Version 4.10, code name “Warty Warthog,” was only
the first representative in a line of operating systems that were
made by human beings for human beings, aiming to let normal people
use Linux.

“Let’s take a quick look at when each of the Ubuntu versions was
released, and what it brought new:”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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