October 20, but 15 years ago (in 2004) was presented to the public the first version of the nascent Linux distribution "Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog"That over the years would become one of the most popular and popular Linux distributions among Linux users.
As most of our readers will know, Ubuntu is a project that was founded by Mark Shuttleworth who also founded Canonical. Mark is a South African millionaire who participated in the development of Debian and was inspired by the idea of creating a distribution end-user desktop with a fixed, predictable development cycle.
In this project in addition to Mark, several developers of the Debian project participated, many of whom are still involved in the development of both projects to date.
As additional information, for those who do not know, Ubuntu 4.10 live version remains available for download and it allows the curious to evaluate what the first version of the system that was released to the public 15 years ago looked like.
In this version of Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog, the release included the GNOME 2.8 desktop environment, XFree86 4.3, Firefox 0.9, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2.
Of which several of these components to date have remained within the project, such is the case of the browser Firefox which in Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog was its version 0.9 (even it did not even go to 1.0) and today the browser is in its version 69.0 within the new version of the system that is Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan Ermine.
While for the case of the graphical server that was initially XFree86In that same year 2004, X.org was born as a fork due to changes in the MIT license, since the new license had incompatibilities with the GNU General Public License.
And it would be adopted to the X.org server in later versions of Ubuntu, which for the year 2013 the Ubuntu developers had planned to migrate to another graphic server "Wayland" and that this was only an attempt since later Canonical would work on its own graphic server "Mir" and that this other would also remain as an unsuccessful attempt due to problems that arose.
On the part of the Ofimatica suite that was presented in Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog, in those years the most used was OpenOffice (speaking of free software), that later due to the acquisition by From Oracle, a well-known fork would emerge today “LibreOffice”.
During all these changes that the initial companions have suffered from Ubuntu, the distribution also had its own, of which the majority in the opinion of many have been bad decisions by Canonical and that many of the users that Ubuntu remember perfectly.
Such is the case of the desktop environment change which was changed by the one Canonical was developing on its own "Unity" desktop environment that remained in distribution for several years. Well, Ubuntu 10.10 was the last version of Ubuntu to have Gnome as the default desktop, since Ubuntu 11.04 and up to Ubuntu 18.04 (that is, last year).
Another change that caused uproar in Ubuntu was Canonical's criticized decision to include controversial Amazon search results in Unity Dash they made their debut in Ubuntu 12.10.
Despite all these changes that the distribution has undergone today, many of them served as a stepping stone for Canonical and learning from its mistakes. Well, today Ubuntu is a fairly famous distribution and much loved by many Linux and even Windows users.
At least for my part I had to experience many of them, because I interacted with Linux for the first time in Ubuntu 9.04 Karmic Koala and fortunately I managed to receive my system disk sent directly by Canonical from Ubuntu 10.10.
Finally, do you think Canonical has achieved or has come close to its initial goal? What was the first version of Ubuntu that you knew?
Definitely. So much so that, for many, Ubuntu is synonymous with Gnu Linux. In my case it was the first distro I tried. His great contribution in this area cannot be denied.
The first version of Ubuntu and my introduction to Gnu / Linux was with Ubuntu 10.10, to this day I continue to test each release they make, it is a distro that I have great appreciation for. Apart from "from my point of view" he has done too much to introduce many more users to the world of Gnu / Linux.
It was very good to wait for the CD that they sent you for free to test the distro. Thanks for so much Ubuntu.
I actually have little in the world of Linux and it was precisely with Ubuntu that I met it, the version was Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS and it was a real kilombo because I had never seen an operating system that was pure command line, and I remember that that I didn't sleep at night because I installed the graphical environment (and boy did it cost me a lot to do it)