New flavours of Ubuntu being developed in Ireland
Recently I popped down to the BT Young Scientist Exhibition here in Dublin. Walking through the exhibition, I stumbled upon Zorin OS, which caught my eye. So I stopped and asked Kyrill and Artyom Zorin the developers behind it all a few questions.
Q: So where did you hear about Ubuntu ?
We first came across Ubuntu while watching videos on YouTube of Compiz and Kiba dock.
We were very impressed by Ubuntu and started using it since June 2008. However, we learnt that many Windows users found the Ubuntu interface unfamiliar and difficult to operate.
We decided to develop Zorin OS to make Ubuntu more friendly for Windows users. We started our project in September 2008. We added a Windows like start menu and theme, many applications to improve user experience and usability including WINE, which lets users run Windows programs on Zorin OS, and Ubuntu Tweak.
A preview of Zorin OS 1.0 was displayed at the BT Young Scientist And Technology Exhibition 2009 and was highly commended. The public beta was released on 5 May 2009. Zorin OS Lite beta, which was a stripped down version of the original beta, was released on 30 May 2009. We had a few bugs including a start menu bug and a bug with 64bit but we fixed these bugs.
The first stable version of Zorin OS was released on 1 July 2009.
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