Sunday, 10 November 2019

Great start with Ubuntu

Hi everyone,

Today in this post I like to share something about ubuntu.
Ubuntu may be a funny name for those who don't know actually what it is. It is a free and open source operating system. It is well known of its usage in Iot and in robotics. It is a great medium for cloud computing. It was released in three editions Desktop, Server and for Core.
It was invented and designed in 2004 and funded by canonical Ltd.
The secret behind the name ubuntu is revealed. It was named after the African philosophy of ubuntu which canonically translates “Humanity to others” or “I am what I am because of who we all are”.(thank you wikipedia)
Now lets see why Ubuntu is still remembered as an operating system.
The first thing is the pre-installation of necessary softwares. Here are few softwares that have pre installed in Ubuntu LibreOffice Writer, LibreOffice Calc, LibreOffice Impress, Firefox, Thunderbird and many more.
Security is the another major advantage of Ubuntu. Most developers prefer Ubuntu because of high security.
And lesser system requirement is enough to install ubuntu. For example to install ubuntu 16.04, 700MHz dual core processor, 512MB of ram and 5Gb of free disk space is enough. To install Ubuntu.
And another advantage regarding ubuntu, it can be used without installation. Hope it will be a great part of ubuntu. It is not important to install Ubuntu to have an user experience. We could easily run without installation.
There are some disadvantages too. Lets discuss some of them.
First of all the user interface. While shifting from Mac or Windows we may not like the interface on the first sight. Might be take time to get familiar with it. And for beginners it is little bit difficult to handle the terminal too.
The second big problem is this is not for gaming and entertainment purpose. It doesn't offer great features for them. But anyhow they feed the basic needs like playing songs and small games.
So all of all it is very much useful for us as developers. And gives us a great security.
In the next post we shall discuss about the main commands in Ubuntu.

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