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Humanity towards others
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What is Ubuntu all about?
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Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron
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Office Tools
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Productivity Tools
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Web Browsing
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Music and Video
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Photos and Design
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Games
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About Team Ubuntu Singapore
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Contact Us
History of Linux
Unix Background
Created in 1960s by AT&T employess at Bell Laboratories
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Written in assembly language to play a game called Space Travel
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Operating System for PDP7
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AT&T made Unix available for Universities and Commercial firms for
research purposes
UNIX System III was based on Research UNIX Version 7
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First version for commercial use
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History of Linux
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UNIX was widely adopted , copied and modified by
academic instituitions and businesses
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Linux Torvalds began a project in 1991
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Terminal Emulator to access UNIX Servers in the
university
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Using GNU C Compiler on MINIX Operating system
by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Scratched his own itch, which eventually became
an operating system kernel
History of Linux
Announced on 16 August 1993 by Ian Murdock
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Poor maintenance and pervalence of software bugs
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Softlanding Linux System distribution
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Compiled from various packages to form a distribution
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Create a distribution to be maintained in an open manner
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History of ubuntu
First released on October 2004
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Fork of Debian project
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Deb pakage format
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Uses APT/Sypnatic to manage installed packages
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Updated every 6 months
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Funded by Canonical Ltd.
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Formed Ubuntu Foundation by Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical
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Initial funding of US$10 million
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Ubuntu is about...
A communitydeveloped, Linuxbased operating system
Comparable to Microsoft Windows
Contains a lot of applications for word processing, email applications,
instant messaging, web surfing, graphics design and games
Friendly userinterface
LiveCD
WUBI
Is and always will be free!
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS – Hardy Heron
Released on 24 April 2008
3 years of free updates, subsequently
upgrade for free
Hundreds of improvements
Default browser is the outstanding Mozilla Firefox
Upload from camera or phone to FSpot and manage, tag, share and sort photos
Plug in PSP, iPod, MP3 player
Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through
OpenOffice
Pidgin IM puts you in instant touch with colleagues and integrates with your personal
IM services simply and easily
One-Click Add/Remove
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Simple graphical interface for
installing and removing
applications in Ubuntu
Freely available
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Access to thousands of applications
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Ready to be downloaded and
installed in oneclick
No compatability issue
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Office Tools
A complete office productivity suite
OpenOffice.org contains a user interface
and feature set that is similar to other
office suites
Includes all the key desktop applications
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Word Processor
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Spreadsheet
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Presentation
Easily open and share files that uses
Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Koffice or
StarOffice
Productivity tools
Evolution Mail is included with Ubuntu
Fullyfeatured email, calendar, task and contact sharing program
Integrates with ondesktop clock to make sure you don't miss any meetings
Productivity Tools
Support for multiple instant messaging protocols
ie, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, IRC, Facebook, GoogleTalk
Extendable through plugins
Tabbed conversation
Supports some file transfers, with ability to pause,
resume and cancel transfers
Web Browsing
Comes by default with the latest browser from Mozilla, Firefox 3 Beta 5
One of the most popular browsers being used on millions of desktops
Specifically themed for Ubuntu and uses familiar looking icons
Safer than ever
Music and video
Rhythmbox is the fully supported
music player
Stream live radio on top of the preconfigured options
Access (truly) free music stores
Plug in your devices
Share your music across a network
Music and video
Large number of video players available for Ubuntu
Default video player provides DVD playback
Stream video from MythTV servers
Integrate with YouTube and other online video content
providers
Play most video file formats
Photos and Design
FSpot Manager a terrific photo
and image utility
Plug and Play your camera
Organise your photos in a fun
way
Export to your favourite online
photo gallery
Edit your photos
Photos and Design
Free software alternative for Adobe Photoshop
Create graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors,
combining multiple images, removing unwanted images features and converting
between different image formats
Comes with 48 standard brushes, plus facilities to create new ones
Includes filters, as well as transformation, selection, layer and masking tools
Photos and Design
Available for download via Ubuntu software
collection
Open Source vector graphics editor application
Compliant with XML, SVG and CSS standards
Object creation using basic types of Paths,
Rectangles and more
Object manipulation subject to transformations
Comparable to Adobe Illustrator
Games
There are thousands of games which are free
and will run natively on Ubuntu
Most are available through Ubuntu's software
sources
Even Windows games can run using an
emulator available for classic games consoles
Enjoy card games or shoot 'em ups, there's
something for everyone
Getting Ubuntu
Website: http://www.ubuntu.com
Web Order: http://shop.canonical.com
You can even request for a free CD
Available on Cds, DVDs, Torrents, Web Downloads, FTP Downloads and
more
About Team Ubuntu Singapore
Founded by a group of Linux enthusiasts
A Community of Ubuntu users in Singapore
Spread and promote the usage of Ubuntu Linux in Singapore
Provide support and discussion for Ubuntu users in Singapore
To be recognised as an Official Local Community Team in Singapore
Contact Us
Website: http://ubuntu.sg
Mailing List: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntusg
Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SingaporeTeam
IRC Server: irc.freenode.net Channel: #ubuntusg
Credits
Presentation Author: Muhammad Heidir – dave33bravo AT yahoo.com.sg
Sources: Wikipedia, respective software website, UbuntuIndonesia – Amri
Shodiq, Steve Stalcup – Beginning With Ubuntu, Official Ubuntu Website
http://www.ubuntu.com, Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org
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