Feb 18, 2016 11:35 AM
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Ubuntu is a free Linux operating system. It has been developed by Canonical Limited company. It was released in 2004, so it has been in the market for 11 years and it is a free and open source but still many people are not aware of this operating system and Windows is responsible for that. People knows Windows operating as synonyms to computer many of us thinks that computer can not run without windows. And another issue is user friendliness. Who are accustomed with Windows finds it difficult to understand any Linux operating system.
Ubuntu has been developed by Canonical Limited and it is an UK based company. As this is an open source so does not earn any profit by selling this operating system, but they earn by providing technical support to the users. If you install Ubuntu you will get software along with this installation and they are Libre Office, Firefox, Thunderbird, Transmission etc and along with it you will also get few free games. Libre Office helps you to get all the features of Microsoft Office applications like Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint.
Firefox is the browser and Thunderbird is the mail software. And the best part is you can get all these software free of cost online. On the other hand, Microsoft charges very high price for their software like Microsoft Office and Outlook. So in this respect, Ubuntu is very cost effective and it needs to be more user-friendly. Only a technical guy could deal with this operating system and that is their main disadvantage. Ubuntu needs to learn from Microsoft how to make operating system user-friendly so that anyone who does not know anything about computer could also operate it and also needs to learn how to advertise their product to make it popular, Microsoft is best at it.
