Warty Warthog: What is Ubuntu?

From the beginning of Ubuntu, Ubuntu has taken a different approach to Linux, its slogan "linux for human beings" (humanized Linux) is a good interpretation of this, " ubuntu"is a traditional value in South Africa, which is literally interpreted as" human nature "and" kindness to others ". coincide with its slogan.

For Ubuntu and its slogan, Ubuntu is different from Linix other distributions from the beginning of the release. Instead of focusing on what the average user might need, Ubuntu's rivals focus more on the "What is needed for developers and business users". Fedora, for example, takes a very different approach, allowing users and developers to help open the source code.

"linux for Human beings" (humanized Linux) set the tone and direction for its development at the beginning of the Ubuntu project. Ubuntu has never intentionally pursued developers, nor has it shown any interest in the server market. By contrast, Ubuntu has been more focused on desktop users (who were using Ubuntu in 2004) and new Linux users, a concept that has won many ordinary users from the Windows operating system.

The Ubuntu project was opened by Mark Shuttleworth, who sold his company Thawte to VeriSign at a 575 million price in December 1999. After a brief space trip, he founded Canonical Ltd and started to develop Ubuntu. At the earliest release of Ubuntu, Shuttleworth defined this immature project as a new, Linux version that brings new features to Debian, simple and fast installation, regular updates, and a range of excellent packages.

Simple, fast installation, regular updates and technical support, and a wide range of applications are important factors to ensure that Ubuntu occupies the top spot in the Linux market. Perhaps among the three most extraordinary goals, it is the primary goal to help Linux new users achieve rapid installation.

As early as 2004, users who have used Linux will find it difficult to install Debian. Because some of the regular installation procedures are supported by Windows XP or Mac OS X, they are installed on different systems on a shared basis. So on the other hand, Ubuntu is similar to the way Windows or OS X systems are installed: Just put in the CD, reboot, and double-click the installation to complete. When Mark Pilgrim turned to the Linux system, Apple's excellent technical supportSanya CasinoHe chose Ubuntu. Pilgrim even joked that Ubuntu is an African language, meaning "cannot install debian". "

Focusing on new users means that Ubuntu attaches great importance to the experience of the tool, which is the experience that Linux users have never had before, a tool called a graphical installer, with beautiful themes and some design details such as font rendering. Ubuntu designers are doing a little work on window edge antialiasing, which is also the first of the Linux desktops. Thanks to the attention to detail of these designs, Ubuntu won the reputation of ars"'s best Linux distribution of the year and the best open source software of the year.

Writer Andrew Forgue even said: The "utopia project tries to build a single distributed desktop system through a multicultural approach, and Ubuntu is already fast becoming a leader in Linux. 」

Ubuntu is also a humorous way to differentiate itself from other freeware software. While Shuttleworth is serious about Ubuntu's development goals at Ubuntu's first release, don't forget that the first version of Ubuntu is codenamed "warty warthog"(a lump of wart pig), any new company in the release of its products are not molded in their products have such a nickname. These seemingly comical, foolish, strange naming habits have continued to this day (the newly released version is called Utopia Unicorn).

The humor also uses Ubuntu's number one bug, and Mark Shuttleworth even named the Bug's report "Microsoft occupies most of the market." This is in fact a hualiyouhua, one of the ironies of Windows dominance, and a determination to expand the Linux community at least to make the Linux camp work together against Windows. But now this is not the real concern of Linux, because this number one bug was finally closed in 2013, Shuttleworth wrote in his blog: "For ourselves, we should better focus on our own excellence, not on the impact of other people's products." 」

In many ways, closing the number one bug marks a shift in Ubuntu from a release of Linux to a level never seen before. The word "linux" is rarely used on Ubuntu's homepage today.

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Warty Warthog: What is Ubuntu?