What is ubuntu

Ubuntu  is a standalone linux operating system.

It is designed to be used in the office as well as at home.

The whole project is sponsored by Canonical Ltd. and Ubuntu foundation.

Name 'Ubuntu' comes from language of two south africal tribals: Zulu and Xhosa.

Ubuntu means humanity towards others.

The main goal of this linux distribution is to provide users with complete, user-friendly, stable and open-source operating system.

Ubuntu is released every 6 months.

The main features of Ubuntu are:

- default settings and automatic hardware detection

- simplified administration with use of sudo, apt-get and GUI (graphical user interface)

- Ubuntu is based on the GNOME graphical environment

- Ubuntu Software Center - an easy way to install new applications

- disabled people support software

- multilingual distributions

- according to participate in Debian family Ubuntu has got huge variety of software available and tested

- LTS (Long Term Support) ubuntu version is distributed every two years in October. The support is
provided for another 5 years including security and software updates

- for Ubuntu 12.04 minimum hardware required is 1GHz Pentium4 512Mb RAM and 5Gb HDD

- server version available

Ubuntu is the most popular distribution of Linux operating system in the world and third most popular operating system right after Windows and MacOS.

You can  download ubuntu from here.

And this is probably the best ubuntu forum ever.