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Money can't buy you Ubuntu

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ITWeb; By Carel Alberts
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Mark Shuttleworth, the man who sold a software business he had built on the back of the open source software (OSS) movement for billions, has taken the wraps off his own Linux distribution. Ubuntu (“be humane”) is based on the Debian distribution. Like Debian, it is freely downloadable and customisable. Canonical, Shuttleworth's OSS development outfit, undertook to distribute the software to early adopters via 340 000 CDs, free of charge, at a personal cost of $10 million. Ubuntu can also be downloaded via global mirror sites.

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You could probably find an Ubuntu CD on eBay. http://shortlink.co.uk/1yk

Yes, I'm just being smart.

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