Subject areaData and infrastructure
Ubuntu is a distribution of Linux, that is a complete version of the operating system: the core written by Linus Torvalds, the basic tools and a graphical environment, packaged so that anyone can install them without compiling anything by hand.
A distribution exists because Linux, on its own, is a component and not a finished product.
In the site's articles Ubuntu appears as a personal experience: Enrico Giubertoni has used Linux since 2005 and was one of the first to adopt Ubuntu (an early adopter), until it ran all his computers. The logic is simple: a free operating system, yet polished like a product, took Linux out of the circle of programmers.
An example
The case that follows is constructed, because the term appears in the articles only as a personal recollection. A small professional firm renews its oldest computers by installing Ubuntu: the office programs stay the same and the cost of operating system licences disappears.
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