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Download1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,908 This is Alan Pope with the first screencast in the 2 00:00:04,008 --> 00:00:06,008 Ubuntu Month of Screencasts. 3 00:00:06,189 --> 00:00:08,341 All the screencasts in the Month of Screencasts can be 4 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:11,514 downloaded for free at our website, 5 00:00:11,614 --> 00:00:14,736 which is screencasts.ubuntu.com 6 00:00:15,529 --> 00:00:19,279 The subject of this first screencast is Ubuntu. 7 00:00:19,379 --> 00:00:22,369 We are going to talk a little bit about the Ubuntu Foundation, 8 00:00:22,469 --> 00:00:25,829 the project and the products. 9 00:00:25,929 --> 00:00:28,892 Now the first thing to note is that I am pronouncing it incorrectly, 10 00:00:29,130 --> 00:00:31,243 The official pronounciation is Ubuntu, 11 00:00:31,343 --> 00:00:34,887 but I pronouce it Ubuntu, partly because I am lazy. 12 00:00:42,573 --> 00:00:44,686 So what is Ubuntu? 13 00:00:44,786 --> 00:00:47,564 Ubuntu is a Linux based operating system. 14 00:00:47,987 --> 00:00:51,315 Now this could get a little bit technical for the first screencast, 15 00:00:51,415 --> 00:00:54,748 so we are going to defer this until tommorow 16 00:00:54,848 --> 00:00:57,678 and we will talk more about Linux and operating systems 17 00:00:57,778 --> 00:00:59,581 in the next screencast. 18 00:00:59,681 --> 00:01:04,397 But for now we will say Ubuntu is software that you run on a computer, 19 00:01:04,497 --> 00:01:07,112 which is more or less accurate. 20 00:01:07,707 --> 00:01:11,812 In a bit more detail, it is a Linux based operating system, 21 00:01:11,912 --> 00:01:17,356 which is freely available with support from a community of volunteers, 22 00:01:17,456 --> 00:01:19,324 so these are people that give their own time 23 00:01:19,424 --> 00:01:21,726 to provide support on Ubuntu. 24 00:01:21,841 --> 00:01:25,085 But also professional support from companies, 25 00:01:25,185 --> 00:01:28,478 who will sell you support contracts. 26 00:01:29,239 --> 00:01:33,377 The emphasis on Ubuntu is it being free of charge, 27 00:01:33,460 --> 00:01:38,210 so you will never have to pay for the Ubuntu software product itself. 28 00:01:39,054 --> 00:01:43,605 Licence freedom, which means that you can take copies of Ubuntu 29 00:01:43,705 --> 00:01:45,062 and give it to your friends. 30 00:01:45,162 --> 00:01:48,471 You can install it on multiple computers 31 00:01:48,918 --> 00:01:51,980 and there are many other benefits to this licence freedom, 32 00:01:52,079 --> 00:01:55,340 which we will talk about more in later screencasts. 33 00:01:56,846 --> 00:02:00,156 And also ease of use, with each release of Ubuntu 34 00:02:00,288 --> 00:02:04,078 the ease of use aspect has become better and better. 35 00:02:05,005 --> 00:02:08,961 A lot of the time people argue that Ubuntu and Linux 36 00:02:09,011 --> 00:02:13,992 is difficult to use, but more often than not this is down to unfamiliarity, 37 00:02:14,174 --> 00:02:16,127 and what we seek to do with these screencasts 38 00:02:16,227 --> 00:02:18,676 is make people more familiar with Ubuntu. 39 00:02:18,776 --> 00:02:22,648 So let us start by talking about the Ubuntu Foundation. 40 00:02:22,962 --> 00:02:26,471 The Ubuntu Foundation was set up a couple of years ago by Mark Shuttleworth 41 00:02:26,571 --> 00:02:29,715 with a donation of ten million US dollars. 42 00:02:30,542 --> 00:02:35,259 The idea behind the foundation is that it can provide support for Ubuntu 43 00:02:36,385 --> 00:02:44,064 By support I am talking about bug fixes and security updates to the product. 44 00:02:45,057 --> 00:02:48,797 But as I understand it the foundation is now dormant 45 00:02:48,897 --> 00:02:51,909 it is not currently in use and the money is not being spent, 46 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:56,013 because there is a commercial sponsor for Ubuntu at the moment 47 00:02:56,146 --> 00:02:57,602 and that is Cononical. 48 00:02:57,718 --> 00:03:00,482 Now Canonical is a privately funded company, 49 00:03:00,582 --> 00:03:03,478 set up again by Mark Shuttleworth. 50 00:03:04,040 --> 00:03:08,526 Canonical have sponsored Ubuntu development so far 51 00:03:08,906 --> 00:03:11,620 They also have other products that they work on 52 00:03:11,902 --> 00:03:14,864 and you can see details on the Canonical website, 53 00:03:14,964 --> 00:03:16,964 which is canonical.com 54 00:03:17,064 --> 00:03:22,759 The main product that Canonical are well known for is Ubuntu. 55 00:03:23,735 --> 00:03:28,221 We will talk a little bit more about Canonical as time goes on. 56 00:03:32,441 --> 00:03:37,373 So the Ubuntu project, which was started by Mark Shuttleworth 57 00:03:37,473 --> 00:03:42,222 within the project he has the nickname S.A.B.D.F.L. which is 58 00:03:42,322 --> 00:03:44,523 Self Appointed Benevolent Dictator For Life 59 00:03:44,623 --> 00:03:49,422 a nickname that comes from the fact that he initially started the project 60 00:03:49,522 --> 00:03:53,112 and provided the funding for the project. 61 00:03:54,701 --> 00:03:56,803 So let us look at the project 62 00:03:58,375 --> 00:04:04,052 Now the project, which is funded by either Canonical or the Ubuntu Foundation 63 00:04:04,565 --> 00:04:06,584 provides a number of products 64 00:04:06,684 --> 00:04:09,563 and some of them are listed at the bottom of this slide. 65 00:04:09,663 --> 00:04:13,337 Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu and we will talk more about those 66 00:04:13,437 --> 00:04:16,962 again as we go through the screencasts. 67 00:04:17,971 --> 00:04:23,052 We will mainly focus on Ubuntu throughout all of the screencasts 68 00:04:23,152 --> 00:04:26,660 in the Month of Screencasts, because basically I have more 69 00:04:26,776 --> 00:04:29,987 familiarity with Ubuntu than I do with any other of the products, 70 00:04:30,087 --> 00:04:33,992 so it makes more sense for me to talk about that, than any of the others. 71 00:04:34,786 --> 00:04:38,328 You can find out more information about each of the other products 72 00:04:38,560 --> 00:04:43,360 within the Ubuntu project by visiting each of their websites. 73 00:04:43,459 --> 00:04:51,668 ubuntu.com, edubuntu.org, xubuntu.org and kubuntu.org. 74 00:04:52,545 --> 00:04:56,335 Links to these websites will be provided on our website. 75 00:04:57,196 --> 00:05:01,499 They are all much the same, they have the same foundation within them, 76 00:05:01,582 --> 00:05:07,010 but Ubuntu, Xubuntu and Kubuntu have a slightly different user interface, 77 00:05:07,110 --> 00:05:12,472 slightly different look and feel, but they all are much the same. 78 00:05:13,051 --> 00:05:17,602 Now Ubuntu releases every six months, they are time based releases. 79 00:05:17,685 --> 00:05:22,766 The first release was version four point ten and the numbering system comes, 80 00:05:22,866 --> 00:05:25,447 the four is the year two thousand and four 81 00:05:25,547 --> 00:05:27,284 and the ten is the tenth month. 82 00:05:27,351 --> 00:05:30,793 so the release date for version four ten was October two thousand and four. 83 00:05:31,207 --> 00:05:33,739 The reason why in this slide it has a line through it is 84 00:05:33,839 --> 00:05:37,000 because it is now end of life, it is no longer supported. 85 00:05:37,099 --> 00:05:38,787 You can of course still run it on your computer, 86 00:05:38,820 --> 00:05:41,700 but you will not get security updates and you will not get bug fixes 87 00:05:41,865 --> 00:05:46,648 to that version of Ubuntu, so it is recommended to upgrade at some point. 88 00:05:47,145 --> 00:05:49,015 As you can see from this slide that there have been 89 00:05:49,115 --> 00:05:52,342 successive releases roughly every six months. 90 00:05:53,153 --> 00:05:57,770 The current stable release is seven point zero four. 91 00:05:58,267 --> 00:06:01,941 with a new release coming out in October, seven ten. 92 00:06:02,041 --> 00:06:06,525 You will notice that each version has a name associated with it, 93 00:06:06,625 --> 00:06:14,056 this development codename is assigned early on in the development life cycle. 94 00:06:14,801 --> 00:06:18,789 Often you will find the developers refer to the versions by their name, 95 00:06:18,872 --> 00:06:20,527 rather than their version number. 96 00:06:20,627 --> 00:06:23,854 Also worth noting is the LTS tag, the Long Term Support 97 00:06:24,797 --> 00:06:27,644 Releases of Ubuntu the have the LTS tag are 98 00:06:27,744 --> 00:06:31,169 supported for longer than the the standard releases of Ubuntu 99 00:06:31,269 --> 00:06:34,777 A standard version will be supported for eighteen months 100 00:06:34,877 --> 00:06:39,626 LTS releases are supported for three years on the desktop 101 00:06:39,709 --> 00:06:42,043 and five years on a server. 102 00:06:42,143 --> 00:06:45,816 For example 6.06 is supported until two thousand and nine on the desktop 103 00:06:46,693 --> 00:06:49,457 and two thousand and eleven on a server. 104 00:06:50,020 --> 00:06:51,659 So where do you get Ubuntu? 105 00:06:51,759 --> 00:06:56,309 Well, if you go to ubuntu.com, there is a download link on the left hand side, 106 00:06:56,541 --> 00:06:59,570 where you can download an image of a CD. 107 00:06:59,901 --> 00:07:03,558 Which you can then write on to a blank CD 108 00:07:03,674 --> 00:07:07,266 and then boot from it and try it out. 109 00:07:07,563 --> 00:07:11,006 We have covered this in some detail in previous screencasts. 110 00:07:11,254 --> 00:07:15,077 If you go to screencasts.ubuntu.com you can see how to 111 00:07:15,177 --> 00:07:18,735 download and burn an image to CD. 112 00:07:18,835 --> 00:07:22,211 Alternatively you can visited shipit.ubuntu.com 113 00:07:22,260 --> 00:07:24,577 and order CDs to be sent to you directly. 114 00:07:24,660 --> 00:07:27,970 You can order just one or you can order a pack of more than one, 115 00:07:28,070 --> 00:07:30,635 if you want to share them with friends or colleague at work 116 00:07:30,735 --> 00:07:33,117 or hand them out at an event. 117 00:07:33,217 --> 00:07:36,609 You can share those CDs with your community. 118 00:07:37,305 --> 00:07:40,549 And speaking of community, another aspect of Ubuntu 119 00:07:40,846 --> 00:07:45,067 is the vast community of people working on the product. 120 00:07:45,348 --> 00:07:48,443 As an example there is a team of people working on the 121 00:07:48,543 --> 00:07:50,543 documentation for Ubuntu 122 00:07:50,909 --> 00:07:55,196 and this team is mostly not paid to work on Ubuntu. 123 00:07:55,378 --> 00:07:58,075 These are volunteers who edit the documentation 124 00:07:58,307 --> 00:08:02,147 and this is the documentation you see in Ubuntu, when you have 125 00:08:02,114 --> 00:08:04,247 booted up into Ubuntu. 126 00:08:04,347 --> 00:08:07,625 You can also access it via these three websites. 127 00:08:08,453 --> 00:08:12,276 Links to these websites will be on the screencasts site. 128 00:08:13,153 --> 00:08:15,983 This documentation is incredibly detailed 129 00:08:16,083 --> 00:08:18,083 and provides lots of information. 130 00:08:18,929 --> 00:08:21,693 There is also another side to the community, 131 00:08:21,793 --> 00:08:24,672 which is a website called Launchpad. 132 00:08:25,185 --> 00:08:28,280 Launchpad is very tightly integrated with Ubuntu 133 00:08:28,578 --> 00:08:30,614 and the Ubuntu development process. 134 00:08:30,714 --> 00:08:33,957 Within launchpad you can register projects 135 00:08:34,073 --> 00:08:37,333 and Ubuntu is a project registered on the website. 136 00:08:38,028 --> 00:08:42,580 You can file bugs in projects on the launchpad website 137 00:08:43,606 --> 00:08:46,287 and create specifications for new products. 138 00:08:46,684 --> 00:08:49,580 You can translate the software within launchpad 139 00:08:50,011 --> 00:08:53,205 and ask support questions in launchpad. 140 00:08:53,553 --> 00:08:56,383 The vast majority of the work done within launchpad 141 00:08:56,483 --> 00:08:59,511 is done by volunteers, members of the community 142 00:08:59,611 --> 00:09:02,159 who want to see ubuntu grow. 143 00:09:03,979 --> 00:09:07,190 Lets have a look at a couple of other areas of the community. 144 00:09:07,290 --> 00:09:11,642 This website is called the Ubuntu Planet, planet.ubuntu.com 145 00:09:11,742 --> 00:09:14,389 and this is an aggregation of blogs. 146 00:09:14,489 --> 00:09:18,808 These are the opinions of people who use Ubuntu 147 00:09:19,222 --> 00:09:22,268 and recommend Ubuntu to other people. 148 00:09:22,368 --> 00:09:25,826 You can see down the right hand side a number of people listed there 149 00:09:25,926 --> 00:09:27,398 who's blogs are aggregated. 150 00:09:27,498 --> 00:09:30,311 Here is another element of the community, the Ubuntu forums. 151 00:09:30,526 --> 00:09:33,770 There is a massive amount of knowledge and a number of people here, 152 00:09:33,869 --> 00:09:37,163 who can help you with your Ubuntu system. 153 00:09:37,527 --> 00:09:40,026 These people may be running Ubuntu themselves 154 00:09:40,126 --> 00:09:43,055 and they may be able to provide support with issues 155 00:09:43,138 --> 00:09:46,247 you might have with you Ubuntu system. 156 00:09:46,564 --> 00:09:50,387 There is an incredible amount of people there waiting to helps you. 157 00:09:51,131 --> 00:09:54,011 Finally here is just a quick look over the Ubuntu desktop. 158 00:09:54,111 --> 00:09:56,957 We are going to look at it in much more detail over the course 159 00:09:57,057 --> 00:09:59,057 of the other screencasts. 160 00:09:59,157 --> 00:10:02,634 You can see here, there is a menu with applications 161 00:10:02,734 --> 00:10:06,656 and a desktop in the background, 162 00:10:06,756 --> 00:10:09,850 icons on the toolbar and most of the kind of thing that people are 163 00:10:09,950 --> 00:10:12,515 familiar with, with an operating system. 164 00:10:12,615 --> 00:10:16,619 I just wanted to show a quick teaser of things to come. 165 00:10:17,248 --> 00:10:18,719 Thanks for watching. 166 00:10:19,565 --> 00:10:21,915 All of our screencasts are available on website, 167 00:10:22,015 --> 00:10:24,015 screencasts.ubuntu.com
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