Happy 20th Anniversary, Ubuntu!

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:08:37 +0200

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

Happy 20th Anniversary, Ubuntu!

Exactly 20 years ago today, on October 20, 2004, the 4.10 “Warty Warthog” release of the Linux distribution with the strange and unfamiliar name Ubuntu debuted under the company’s slogan “Linux for human beings.”

For me, what stands out most about Ubuntu, is that it helped drive Linux to be more popular and increase adoption amongst end-users and small businesses. Back around 2006 my own company was busy preparing to adopt Linux, and Ubuntu was the distribution being looked at. I started out on Ubuntu as my first Linux distro back then.

If Linux is so widespread today, it’s largely thanks to Mark Shuttleworth and his company. They were bold enough to challenge tech giants like Microsoft and Apple, believing that Linux isn’t just for tech experts but for everyone. And it can be said that he succeeded in this endeavour.

Mark is also a South African entrepreneur, but has no musk odour...

See Happy 20th Anniversary, Ubuntu!

On this day 20 years ago, Ubuntu released its 4.10 'Warty Warthog,' forever changing the Linux ecosystem. Happy Anniversary, Ubuntu!

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Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:25:22 +0200

Tamiro

tamiro@mastodon.social

@gadgeteer Happy 20th anniversary to the Ubuntu operating system.

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 10:32:56 +0200

Alexander Goeres

jabgoe2089@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Danie van der Merwe 20 years! oh my .... ubuntu was much more user friendly and very much better for newer hardware. so i started to use it on most of the laptops i had since that time.

a negative aspect of the emergence of ubuntu was that debian became more difficult. my impression was that until ubuntu one could use debian unstable without much problems, but after ubuntu came to life that changed. debian unstable became really unstable and stopped being of much use. i attributed this to developers switching sides and deserting .... :)

Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:47:48 +0200

Danie van der Merwe

gadgeteer@hub.netzgemeinde.eu

@Alexander Goeres yes, I think Ubuntu was instrumental in opening up Linux to ordinary end users. Interesting, I never really knew about shifts at Debian then. I was exposed to Red Hat but from the CLI as that was what Linux Fundamentals training was being done on by us. I remember being amazed then that Red Hat fundamentals worked as-is on Debian (apart from package management). The whole Linux picture started becoming clearer.