Happy 12th Birthday, Ubuntu!

[Haron Prime]

Ubuntu celebrates its 12th birthday today — hurrah!

Yup, it’s twelve years to the day since Mark Shuttleworth sat down to tap out the first Ubuntu release announcement and herald in an era of “Linux for human beings”.

Explaining the proposition behind the Ubuntu 4.10 ‘Warty Warthog’, he wrote at the time:

“Ubuntu is a new Linux distribution that brings together the extraordinary breadth of Debian with a fast and easy install, regular releases (every six months), a tight selection of excellent packages installed by default and a commitment to security updates with 18 months of security and technical support for every release.”

While that ‘commitment’ to 18 months of security was cut in two in 2013, the rest of the blurb could just as easily apply to the most recent release, Ubuntu 16.10, as the first.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2016/10/ubuntu-12th-birthday