19th September 2008 Team Ubuntu Singapore Presentation :: http://ubuntu.sg
Humanity towards others
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What is Ubuntu all about?
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Ubuntu 8.04 – Hardy Heron
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Office Tools
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Productivity Tools
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Web Browsing
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Music and Video
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Photos and Design
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Games
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About Team Ubuntu Singapore
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Contact Us
History of Linux Unix Background Created in 1960s by AT&T employess at Bell Laboratories
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Written in assembly language to play a game called Space Travel
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Operating System for PDP7
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AT&T made Unix available for Universities and Commercial firms for research purposes ●
UNIX System III was based on Research UNIX Version 7
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First version for commercial use
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History of Linux UNIX was widely adopted , copied and modified by academic instituitions and businesses ●
Linux Torvalds began a project in 1991
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Terminal Emulator to access UNIX Servers in the university ●
Using GNU C Compiler on MINIX Operating system by Andrew S. Tanenbaum ●
Scratched his own itch, which eventually became an operating system kernel ●
History of Linux Announced on 16 August 1993 by Ian Murdock
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Poor maintenance and pervalence of software bugs
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Softlanding Linux System distribution
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Compiled from various packages to form a distribution
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Create a distribution to be maintained in an open manner
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History of ubuntu First released on October 2004
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Fork of Debian project
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Deb pakage format
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Uses APT/Sypnatic to manage installed packages
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Updated every 6 months
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Funded by Canonical Ltd.
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Formed Ubuntu Foundation by Mark Shuttleworth and Canonical
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Initial funding of US$10 million
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Ubuntu is about... A communitydeveloped, Linuxbased operating system Comparable to Microsoft Windows Contains a lot of applications for word processing, email applications, instant messaging, web surfing, graphics design and games Friendly userinterface LiveCD WUBI Is and always will be free!
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS – Hardy Heron Released on 24 April 2008 3 years of free updates, subsequently upgrade for free Hundreds of improvements Default browser is the outstanding Mozilla Firefox Upload from camera or phone to FSpot and manage, tag, share and sort photos Plug in PSP, iPod, MP3 player Word processing, spreadsheets and presentations can all be delivered through OpenOffice
Pidgin IM puts you in instant touch with colleagues and integrates with your personal IM services simply and easily
One-Click Add/Remove Simple graphical interface for installing and removing applications in Ubuntu ●
Freely available
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Access to thousands of applications
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Ready to be downloaded and installed in oneclick ●
No compatability issue
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Office Tools A complete office productivity suite OpenOffice.org contains a user interface and feature set that is similar to other office suites Includes all the key desktop applications ● Word Processor ● Spreadsheet ● Presentation Easily open and share files that uses Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Koffice or StarOffice
Productivity tools Evolution Mail is included with Ubuntu Fullyfeatured email, calendar, task and contact sharing program Integrates with ondesktop clock to make sure you don't miss any meetings
Productivity Tools
Support for multiple instant messaging protocols ie, MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, IRC, Facebook, GoogleTalk Extendable through plugins Tabbed conversation Supports some file transfers, with ability to pause, resume and cancel transfers
Web Browsing Comes by default with the latest browser from Mozilla, Firefox 3 Beta 5 One of the most popular browsers being used on millions of desktops Specifically themed for Ubuntu and uses familiar looking icons Safer than ever
Music and video
Rhythmbox is the fully supported music player Stream live radio on top of the preconfigured options Access (truly) free music stores Plug in your devices Share your music across a network
Music and video
Large number of video players available for Ubuntu Default video player provides DVD playback Stream video from MythTV servers Integrate with YouTube and other online video content providers Play most video file formats
Photos and Design FSpot Manager a terrific photo and image utility Plug and Play your camera Organise your photos in a fun way
Export to your favourite online photo gallery Edit your photos
Photos and Design
Free software alternative for Adobe Photoshop Create graphics and logos, resizing and cropping photos, altering colors, combining multiple images, removing unwanted images features and converting between different image formats Comes with 48 standard brushes, plus facilities to create new ones Includes filters, as well as transformation, selection, layer and masking tools
Photos and Design Available for download via Ubuntu software collection Open Source vector graphics editor application Compliant with XML, SVG and CSS standards Object creation using basic types of Paths, Rectangles and more Object manipulation subject to transformations Comparable to Adobe Illustrator
Games
There are thousands of games which are free and will run natively on Ubuntu Most are available through Ubuntu's software sources Even Windows games can run using an emulator available for classic games consoles
Enjoy card games or shoot 'em ups, there's something for everyone
Getting Ubuntu Website: http://www.ubuntu.com Web Order: http://shop.canonical.com You can even request for a free CD Available on Cds, DVDs, Torrents, Web Downloads, FTP Downloads and more
About Team Ubuntu Singapore Founded by a group of Linux enthusiasts A Community of Ubuntu users in Singapore Spread and promote the usage of Ubuntu Linux in Singapore Provide support and discussion for Ubuntu users in Singapore To be recognised as an Official Local Community Team in Singapore
Contact Us Website: http://ubuntu.sg Mailing List: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntusg Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SingaporeTeam IRC Server: irc.freenode.net Channel: #ubuntusg
Credits Presentation Author: Muhammad Heidir – dave33bravo AT yahoo.com.sg Sources: Wikipedia, respective software website, UbuntuIndonesia – Amri Shodiq, Steve Stalcup – Beginning With Ubuntu, Official Ubuntu Website http://www.ubuntu.com, Wikipedia http://wikipedia.org
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