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[http://ubuntulinux.org/ Ubuntu] is the child of [http://www.markshuttleworth.com/ Mark Shuttleworth], millionaire and founder of [http://www.canonical.com/ Canonical]. (Oh, and he's been in space and spent 8 days on the ISS.) It's a relatively new distro and has become very popular as it is as easy to maintain as Debian, but far more frequently updated than Debian Stable.

== Add Mirror ==

For Desktop Edition:

#For '''Download from:''' select Other

#Click on United States

In Command Line (useful for server edition):

#Open up /etc/apt/sources.list as sudo

#Save file

#run apt-get update

* Easy to install/use

* Strong user community

* X.org

* Uses Gnome, but has been forked to use KDE in the [http://www.kubuntu.org/ Kubuntu] project