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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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