What is Ubuntu?

What Ubuntu offers us?

Ubuntu is a community-developed operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops, and servers. Whether you use it at home, at school, or at work, Ubuntu contains all the applications you might need, from word processing and email applications, to web server software and programming tools.

This system is and will always be free of cost. You do not pay for a user license. You can download, use and share Ubuntu with your friends, family, school or business freely.

Ubuntu is one of the Linux distributions that exist today, over the years it has had an impressive development and acceptance by the free software loving community around the world.

In addition to being an OS for computers. This sistem is expanding to enter the world of mobiles and tablets through Ubuntu Phone. If you have a GalaxyNexus or Nexus 4 model, you can install Ubuntu Phone on your device (only for advanced users).

User interface

Ubuntu from its first release used the default user interface of the GNOME (GNOME is the basic user interface of the GNOME desktop environment) with a lower panel to list windows and an upper panel for menus and system indicators, from version 11.04 the Canonical team decided to launch its own user interface, of that way Unity was designed to optimize the space and interaction of the interface.

Characteristics

In its latest version, officially supports two hardware architectures on personal computers and servers: 32-bit (x86) and 64-bit (x86_64) However, unofficially, Ubuntu has been ported to more architectures: ARM, PowerPC, SPARC and IA-64.

As of version 9.04, unofficial support for ARM processors, commonly used in mobile devices, began to be offered. Like most Linux-based desktop systems, it is capable of updating all the applications installed on the machine at once through repositories. Ubuntu is being translated into more than 130 languages, and each user is able to voluntarily contribute to this cause, through the Internet.

The free software initiative reaches its maximum expression when the GNU Linux operating system is installed on the computer instead of Windows.

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