Getting started with Ubuntu 12.04

Ubuntu Philosophy：

(1) Free of charge

(2) Commercial support from Canonical

(3) Ubuntu 翻譯成多種語言，方便使用者使用

(4) Core application →free 、open source

History of Ubuntu：

●由 Canoncial 支持，Suttleworth 選 Debian System 作為完全 free 、easy to use 的作用軟體。

●Linux Kernel 為 Ubuntu 之作業核心(腦)

What is Linux?

Ubuntu is built on the foundation of Linux, which is a member of the Unix family. Unix is one of the oldest types of operating systems and has provided reliability and security in professional applications for almost half a century. Many servers around the world that store data for popular websites (such as YouTube and Google) run some variant of a Unix system.

Is Ubuntu right for you ?

(1) Ubuntu is community base 由社群軟體支撐(不會倒)

(2) Windows or Max OSX 的應用程式無法在Ubuntu 上使 用

●applications developed for Windows will work in Ubuntu with a program called Wine.

For more information on Wine, go to http://www.winehq.org.

(3) Commercial games不可再 Ubuntu 上使用

最少硬體規格( For Ubuntu 12.04)：

(1) 1GHz x86 處理器

(2) 1GB (RAM)

(3) 5GB (disk space)

(4) Video support 1024 x 86

(5) 有音效處理

(6) 能連網路

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