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3 unusual facts about ubuntu


LibreOffice

Munich uses LiMux, an Ubuntu Linux derivative, on nearly all of the city's 15,000 computers.

LiMux

The project was successfully completed in late 2013, which involved migrating 15,000 personal computers and laptops of public employees to free and open source software using the Linux distribution "LiMux" (an Ubuntu derivative) as the operating system and LibreOffice as the primary productivity software.

Ninite

Ninite works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, and Ubuntu.


Amazon MP3

The Downloader is available for Windows (XP, Vista, or 7), Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, and Linux (packages are provided for Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora and openSUSE), although the Linux versions are not consistently updated to be compliant with the most recent releases and are not available for 64-bit architectures.

Bleeping Computer

Bleeping Computer also has many mini guides for things such as "How to Re-Install Windows" to "How to Install and Use Ubuntu or any version of Linux" as well as guides on how to remove common Malware infections.

Enlight cloud

Other operating systems are supported without scaling options, such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Window Server 2003 and Windows 7.

FTBFS

The term FTBFS tends to be used specifically with the Debian and Ubuntu Linux distributions.

Insight – ICT for the differently abled

The training programme makes use of Orca (an assistive technology for the visually challenged), Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux based operating systems.

Komputeko

Others who have availed themselves of Komputeko include Cindy McKee's KDE and Joomla translation teams, Esperanto Wikipedia founder Chuck Smith's Drupal translation and the former Amikumu projects, Tim Morley's OpenOffice.org translation team, Guillaume Savaton's GNOME translation team, the translation teams for Plone and Xfce, and Joop Kiefte's Ubuntu translation team.

Kubuntu

Since ubuntu is a Bantu term translating roughly to "humanity", and since Bantu grammar involves prefixes to form noun classes, it turns out that the prefix ku- having the meaning "towards" in Bemba, kubuntu is also a meaningful Bemba word or phrase translating to "towards humanity".

Mark Shuttleworth

In the Ubuntu project, Shuttleworth is often referred to with the tongue-in-cheek title "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life" (SABDFL).

National Gendarmerie

GendBuntu - the version of the Ubuntu open source operating system developed by the Gendarmerie for their own use

OpenArena

Thanks to third-party efforts, it is also available from the default repositories of a number of Linux distributions, including Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Arch and Ubuntu.

Ounavarra Foundation

Their main projects have included Ubuntu Africa, Mariposa, Educate Girls Globally and Fabretto Children’s Foundation.

Phatch

Phatch is being developed on GNU Linux (Ubuntu) by Stani Michiels.

Robot Operating System

The library is geared toward a Unix-like system (Ubuntu Linux is listed as 'supported' while other variants such as Fedora and Mac OS X are considered 'experimental').

StreamMyGame

The Player is installed on the computer or device on which the game is to be played and is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 along with Ubuntu, Fedora, Red Hat, Xandros, Debian and Yellow Dog Linux.

Ubuntu Hacks

Ubuntu Hacks: Tips & Tools for Exploring, Using, and Tuning Linux is a book of tips about Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution.

Xubuntu

Xfce originally was an abbreviation for XForms Common Environment; ubuntu has a meaning of approximately "humanity towards others" in various Bantu languages.


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