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The History of Ubuntu Linux, Canonical's Open Source OSThe History of Ubuntu Linux, Canonical's Open Source OS

Ubuntu, the open source operating system developed by Canonical, will soon officially be thirteen years old.

Christopher Tozzi

May 23, 2017

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The History of Ubuntu Linux, Canonical's Open Source OS

Ubuntu, the open source operating system developed by Canonical, will soon officially be thirteen years old. The platform is also in the midst of some momentous changes, including a (perhaps nominal) change in leadership and a shift in focus away from mobile and back to servers, the cloud and PCs.

In order to provide context to the current state of Ubuntu, as well as to commemorate the milestones in its past, here’s a look at the major events that have shaped the history of the world’s most popular open source operating system.

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Christopher Tozzi

Christopher Tozzi

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Christopher Tozzi started covering the channel for The VAR Guy on a freelance basis in 2008, with an emphasis on open source, Linux, virtualization, SDN, containers, data storage and related topics. He also teaches history at a major university in Washington, D.C. He occasionally combines these interests by writing about the history of software. His book on this topic, “For Fun and Profit: A History of the Free and Open Source Software Revolution,” is forthcoming with MIT Press.

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