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Ubuntu Turns 10, Happy Birthday!

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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Mark Shuttleworth announced Ubuntu 4.10 "The Warty Warthog Release" on October 20, 2004. It's hard to believe that a decade has passed since then, but we are now getting ready for Ubuntu 14.10 "Utopic Unicorn."

It's difficult to anticipate early on if a Linux distro will become a success, even after just a few editions, but Mark Shuttleworth did something very different for the open source world. He brought money into the mix and didn't ask for something in return.

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Comments (8)

Well, it sure isn't pretty compared to modern times (especially with that horrible brown), but I would still take that DE over Unity. ;-)
I like the Debian text-based installer.
Well, Ubuntu never won any style awards but if you look at a distro that was well known for it's good looks then even a 6 year old version still looks great (actually better and more functional than many current distros): <a href="http://www.linuxscreenshots.org/?release=Mandriva 2008.1">Mandriva 2008.1 screenshots here</a>

How I miss KDE 3.5! (luckily there is still TDE)
BTW, what's the secret to add working links to posts here?
Mandriva 2008.1 screenshots here

Either you have a invalid character some where or it's complaining about the space in release=Mandriva 2008.1

If you change the space to %20 it will work just fine



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