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

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

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Banter

• Dan's Shirt
• Leo's Shirt
• Lubuntu Backports are coming!

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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

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