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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.
A very user friendly Linux distro. Currently there is a faction of the LUG that is against using Ubuntu.
 
LUG has an Ubuntu mirror at: [http://lug.mtu.edu/ubuntu/ http://lug.mtu.edu/ubuntu/]
 
Install/Live CD mirror at: [http://lug.mtu.edu/linux/iso/Ubuntu/ http://lug.mtu.edu/linux/iso/Ubuntu/]
 
== Features ==
* Debian based
* 6 month release cycle, which is timed shortly after and includes the latest Gnome release
* Easy to install/use
* Strong user community
* Philosophy of, "If it doesn't work on install, file a bug report about it."
* Uses Gnome, but has been forked to use KDE in the [http://www.kubuntu.org/ Kubuntu] project
* X.org
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