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Episode 3:02: The Utopic Tale of Ubuntu

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Coming up in this episode

  1. The origins of the shirts
  2. Ubuntu's history
  3. And some thoughts on 22.04

    4. Video version

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    Audio Timestamps

    0:00 Cold Open
    1:30 The Origin of the Shirts
    6:43 Lubuntu's in the Backporting Biz
    9:45 Ubuntu's History
    11:30 2004
    17:01 2005
    20:11 2006
    24:01 2007
    29:55 2008
    36:39 2009
    40:16 2010
    47:52 2011
    55:05 2012
    1:02:35 2013
    1:10:03 2014
    1:15:00 2015
    1:20:19 2016
    1:25:26 2017
    1:28:49 2018
    1:31:17 2019
    1:33:49 2020
    1:35:55 2021
    1:37:19 2022
    1:39:43 A Couple Thoughts on Ubuntu
    1:48:13 A New Distro, and a Thanks!
    1:50:26 Stinger

    Banter
    • Dan's Shirt
    • Leo's Shirt
    • Lubuntu Backports are coming!
      • Announcements
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        • Ubuntu The Saga
        Some fast links:
        • Main Web Page
        • Ubuntu Forums
        • AskUbuntu
        • Ubuntu Discourse
        • Launchpad
        • Official Flavours
        • Wiki

          • There are way too many links to get them all!

          We gathered a great deal from the official Ubuntu Blog

          • The Inception
          • Bug #1
          • October 20, 2004 Warty Warthog 4.10 was the first release.
          • Shipit came about the same time
          • Hoary Hedgehog, 5.04, is released adding KDE and the Kubuntu flavor.
          • Ubuntu Foundation is Created
          • Warty's 18 months are up
          • Dapper Drake, 6.06, is released. To date the only release that was late. Also, Xubuntu joined the family with the Xfce desktop.
          • Scott James Remnant dubbed it the Late To Ship release
          • Edgy Eft, 6.10 is released, now with more Upstart
          • Launch Pad 1.0 Beta released
          • Dell offers Ubuntu 7.04 on select devices in the US
          • first release of Ubuntu Studio
          • Gutsy Gibbon, 7.10 Desktop, is released. Mythubuntu and Gobuntu appear here.
          • Launchpad is released
          • System76 joined the fray
          • Landscape, system management and monitoring tools for Ubuntu, launches
          • Hardy Heron, 8.04 LTS, released for Desktop. Wubi is also released.
          • Gobuntu has been made redundant
          • Launchpad 2.0 released
          • Canonical open sources Launchpad
          • Karmic Koala, 9.10, is relased and so is Ubuntu One
          • Lucid Lynx, 10.04, released and the first hints of Lubuntu, though not official yet.
          • Unity announced
          • Ubuntu and Canonical sites get a facelift. See it here
          • Canonical announces Ubuntu Advantage
          • Unity shows lots of improvement, but it's NOT A DOCK! (See it in action)
          • Quitter talk - Blog post
          • Shipit comes to an end
          • Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10, is released. and Lubuntu becomes official.
          • The HUD is introduced.
          • Precise Pangolin, 12.04, is released. Includes the Heads Up Display
          • Favorable reviews of Ubuntu as a whole, but also Unity
          • The traditional installer/live CD is dead.
          • Ubuntu comes to the phone
          • Raring Ringtail, 13.04, is released.
            • focus on mobile ahead of the 14.04 release
            • Wubi has unresolved bugs
            • Ubuntu Kylin was born
            • Ubuntu Edge Announced.
            • Edge fails to meet its goal
            • Ubuntu Kylin hits 1.3m downloads
            • Ubuntu One's file services are being shut down
            • Ubuntu Mate Remix is announced
            • Mark Shuttleworth announces "Snappy Ubuntu"
            • The BQ Aquaris E4.5 Ubuntu edition is available
            • "Snappy Ubuntu Core" on Raspberry Pi 2
            • Vivid Vervet 15.04, is released.
              • Ubuntu MATE, nearly called Mubuntu, gets its first "official flavor" release
              • Snapcraft is announced and Snappy Apps are being called Snaps now
              • ZFS is coming to Ubuntu
              • Acknowledgement that Snaps don't quite look right a lot of times.
              • Mark Shuttleworth announces that Ubuntu's Unity experiement has failed and Gnome, not Unity8 will be the default session in Ubuntu 18.04. This also marks the end of Ubuntu Phone.
              • The next day, however, Marius Gripsgard of UBPorts stepped up to take the reins.
              • Zesty Zappus, 17.04, is released. and with it Ubuntu Budgie becomes an official flavor.
              • Ubuntu 16.04 shows up in the Windows Store, for the Windows Subsystem for Linux.
              • Canonical joins the Gnome Foundation Advisory Board ahead of the 18.04 release.
              • Bionic Beaver, 18.04, is released. and Gnome is the default DE again.
              • Bryan Quigley, looks to drop 32-bit hardware support
              • Cosmic Cuttlefish, 18.10, is released.
                • 32-bit support is now in consideration to be removed, so upgrades from 18.04 are forbidden on 32-bit installs.
                • Lubuntu Switches to LXQt from LXDE
                • Mir 1.0 is released
                • Disco Dingo, 19.04, is released. No more 32bit isos, long live 32bit.
                • Ubuntu for WSL2
                • i386 architecture, or rather 32-bit support, will be dropped
                • i386 architecture will not be dropped
                • Eoan Ermine 19.10, is released.
                  • Experimental ZFS support on installation is available
                  • Chromium is snap-only
                  • Rocco Interviews Mark Shuttleworth on Linux Spotlight
                  • Ubuntu in Pop Culture
                  • Focal Fossa, 20.04, is released.
                    • Hardware enablement is on by default on the desktop.
                    • The Snap Store tags in for Ubuntu Software
                    • Groovy Gorilla 20.10, is released.
                      • Active Directory support gets added to the installer
                      • Snaps get faster
                      • Another lurch forward for snap theming.
                      • The Ubuntu installer is being rewritten in Flutter.
                      • Impish Indri, 21.10, is released.
                        • Firefox follows Chromium and switches from a deb to a snap - Only for main Ubuntu, not the flavors... yet.
                        • Ubuntu gets their shiny new logo
                        • Jammy Jellyfish, 22.04, is released.
                          • Better Active Directory integration
                          • Flavors follow main Ubuntu and switch to the snap of Firefox.
                          • A big push to improve Firefox snap performance
                          • The push to improve Firefox continues
                            • Housekeeping

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