ubuntu a oprating system

Hello Friendzz Today m going to describe about  ubuntu |oǒ'boǒntoō|
Q.1  Why The name is UBUNTU ???
Ans :- Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning 'humanity to others'. The Ubuntu  operating system brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the world of computers.
 Where did it all begin?
Linux was already established as an enterprise server platform in 2004. But free software was still not a part of everyday life for most computer users. That's why Mark Shuttleworth gathered a small team of developers from one of the most established Linux projects – Debian - and set out to create an easy-to-use Linux desktop, Ubuntu.
The vision for Ubuntu is part social and part economic: free software, available free of charge to everybody on the same terms.
Advantages of  UBUNTU in comparing of WINDOWS VISTA
It’s free of charge.
It pretty much maintains itself. There’s no defragging, virus-scanning, spyware scanning, or other BS maintenance. It requires just Periodic Disk Checking. It can be done when u shutdown the system using  AutoFsck.
Vast source of online help.
Ubuntu in itself is a hard-to-hack distribution, security is maintained becoz of frequent upgrades and updates.


Latest Version
Version 4.10, codenamed the 'Warty Warthog', the first official Ubuntu release, was launched in October 2004.
The latest Version of UBUNTU :-
Latest Stable Release is 10.04 released on 29th  April 2010
and Latest Unstable Release is 10.10 Alpha 2 released on 1st July 2010.

List of all versions released of ubuntu  :-

Version    Code name    Release date      
4.10    Warty Warthog    2004-10-20      
5.04    Hoary Hedgehog    2005-04-08      
5.10    Breezy Badger    2005-10-13      
6.06    LTS Dapper Drake    2006-06-01      
6.10    Edgy Eft    2006-10-26      
7.04    Feisty Fawn    2007-04-19      
7.10    Gutsy Gibbon    2007-10-18      
8.04    LTS Hardy Heron    2008-04-24      
8.10    Intrepid Ibex    2008-10-30      
9.04    Jaunty Jackalope    2009-04-23      
9.10    Karmic Koala    2009-10-29      
10.04    LTS Lucid Lynx    2010-04-29      
10.10    Maverick Meerkat    2010-10-10   

System Requirement  :-
Ubuntu 10.4 Minimum system requirements are,
1 GHz x86 processor
* 512 MiB of system memory (RAM)
* 5 GB of disk space
* Graphics card and monitor capable of 1024x768
* CD-ROM drive
* Sound support
* Internet access