Ubuntu: A New Competitor in the OS Battle?
You've probably heard about Linux. Linux is, in few words, an operating system, just like Microsoft's Windows or Apple's Mac OS X. You've also probably heard that Linux is a very complicated operating system, and that only very experienced users can use it. You'll be surprised to know that is not completely true.
Since the release of Linux, many groups began to modify it according to their needs. Some groups would create a whole new OS based on Linux, which would serve the purpose of serving web pages; others would modify it to make mathematical calculations, etc. From these "distributions," as they're called, two of the became extremely popular (Debian and Slax), and many people started to modify these two distributions.
After the releases of Debian and Slax, hundreds of different versions of Linux started to appear. One of those, focused on users with few experience, so they could use Linux without much technical knowledge. This distribution is called Ubuntu.
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