Ubuntu Linux

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What's Ubuntu Linux?

The term Ubuntu

Ubuntu is an african word. It stands for help, kindness and so on.

Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu Linux is an Operating System based upon the Debian Linux distribution. Debian is from U.K. and there as well known as in Germany Red Hat or SuSE Linux.

I've tested Ubuntu Linux for several weeks and in my opinion this is a very useful and well designed distribution which meets up to know the most Linux "standards" required to be as fast as possible succesful with Linux.

What's Linux?

Linux is the kernel of a lot of so called Linux distributions. The Linux kernel is originally written by Linus Torvald the father off all Linux distributions.

Linux is the base piece of software that builds an interface from the user to the hardware. It's just a generic layer between the user software and the hardware.