Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
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Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
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Re: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
#2Does anyone know if Canonical is profitable beyond donations?
Re: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
#3Aw man I was hoping for more artwork from each release. I remember ordering a ton of the live CD's and handing them out all over my high school back in the Warty Warthog days. Ubuntu sure has come a long way.
Re: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
#4Aw man I was hoping for more artwork from each release. I remember ordering a ton of the live CD's and handing them out all over my high school back in the Warty Warthog days. Ubuntu sure has come a long way.
The wikipedia page for Ubuntu Versions actually has screenshots from all the releases, but it's mostly stock desktop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history
Still fun for a trip down memory lane, but I was also expecting there to be some now vs then style screenshots or a tour of the look and feel through the years in the article.
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#5Does anyone know if Canonical is profitable beyond donations?
Their wikipedia page suggests they were profitable as of 2018: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_(company)
They provide support to lots of enterprises.
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#6Aw man I was hoping for more artwork from each release. I remember ordering a ton of the live CD's and handing them out all over my high school back in the Warty Warthog days. Ubuntu sure has come a long way.
I was hoping for an upgrade video, like people have done for Windows
Here's one that goes from Windows 1.0 -> Windows 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP7AkJo3OE
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#7Aw man I was hoping for more artwork from each release. I remember ordering a ton of the live CD's and handing them out all over my high school back in the Warty Warthog days. Ubuntu sure has come a long way.
Me too! I used to order so much Ubuntu & Kubuntu Live CD's and handing them in my school. I was incredibly suprised that they managed to send huge boxes to me for free to Morocco and I was even more surprised that the unreliable post office of Morocco brought them to my house. They definitely came a long way, hopefully Canonical has been successful enough in the enterprise category that they manage to finance all of this till today.
Re: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
#8Does anyone know if Canonical is profitable beyond donations?
Is anything known that maybe their snap efforts with the snap store are maybe a tactic to get some profit from end user desktop ubuntu down the line?
If their plan works out and it becomes the linux app store they could make it attractive for proprietary software vendors to sell stuff through it, and charge a percentage for being the sole gatekeeper to the snap store like apple or google.
Re: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
#9Aw man I was hoping for more artwork from each release. I remember ordering a ton of the live CD's and handing them out all over my high school back in the Warty Warthog days. Ubuntu sure has come a long way.
I was hoping for an upgrade video, like people have done for Windows Here's one that goes from Windows 1.0 -> Windows 8: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WP7AkJo3OE
Fun note: He sets an orange wallpaper background in Windows 2.03, and it stays through WinME. It's only upon reaching XP that Windows replaces it with the field and clouds used in the advertisements.
Re: Ubuntu from 2004 to 20.04 LTS
#10The first Linux I installed was from a copy of RedHat that my father got for me from the IT department. At the time, it took me a while to set up, because I had no idea why there must be so many partitions, so many settings, so many options of this and that, and had to research each one on a slow internet. I understood about 50% of what I read, and scratched my head through the rest. Not to mention I didn't speak English at the time, so that the number of resources I could read was fairly limited.
When I first heard of Ubuntu, it was said to be quite a bit friendlier to install, so I tried, and pleasantly found the reputation to be true. It felt like someone had endeavored greatly to make my life simpler, including the installation process, the bundled software, and the default look of the DE in general (why I thought so, I couldn't remember). It showed a comically colored progress bar instead of screens of text that scrolled too fast to read. They even made it easy to dual-boot with Windows, without making you go through a whole bunch of partitioning stuff. I thought it was amazing.
Nowadays, I find most mainstream distributions to be friendly enough. Debian, Fedora, CentOS, OpenSUSE, Mint, etc. are all pretty refined. The installers have different interface, but, if you just want to stick to the recommended preferences, it's usually straightforward.
So how does Ubuntu differentiate itself, in 2020?
In terms of the packaging, it's a bit mid of the road, not as stable as Debian/CentOS, not as latest as Fedora, and certainly nowhere near bleeding edge. In terms of DE, Unity is gone. Is it just Snap-enabled be default?