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<article id="art-about-edubuntu" status="complete" lang="oc">
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<title>Edubuntu - Linux for Young Human Beings!</title>
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<title>Mercejaments e licéncia</title>
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<para>This document is maintained by the Ubuntu documentation team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam). For a list of contributors, see the <ulink url="../../../common/C/contributors.xml">contributors page</ulink></para>
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terms of this license. All derivative works must be released under this license.</para>
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<para>This documentation is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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PURPOSE AS DESCRIBED IN THE DISCLAIMER.</para>
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<para>A copy of the license is available here: <ulink url="/usr/share/ubuntu-docs/common/C/ccbysa.xml">Creative Commons ShareAlike License</ulink>.</para>
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<year>2004, 2005, 2006</year>
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<holder>Canonical Ltd. e los sòcis del projècte de documentacion d'Ubuntu</holder>
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<publishername>Lo projècte de documentacion d'Ubuntu</publishername>
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<para>This document is an introduction to Edubuntu. It explains the
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Edubuntu philosophy and roots, gives information about how to contribute to
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Edubuntu, and shows how to get help with Edubuntu.</para>
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This section is an introduction to Edubuntu. It explains the Edubuntu
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philosophy and roots, gives information about how to contribute to Edubuntu,
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and shows how to get help with Edubuntu.
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<imagedata fileref="../../images/C/edubuntu_logo_png.png" format="PNG"/>
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<phrase>Edubuntu Logo</phrase>
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Thank you for your interest in Edubuntu 7.10 - the
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<emphasis>Gutsy Gibbon</emphasis> - released in October 2007.
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Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on
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<ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com"><phrase>Ubuntu</phrase></ulink>, a complete operating system
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that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to the public. As an
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education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for:
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Educators and school personnel who would like to set up Edubuntu in a networked
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learning environment.
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Home users who would like to have a standalone computer system that focuses on
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education for the younger members of the household.
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Since Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu, the team behind Edubuntu are part of the
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growing Ubuntu community. The Ubuntu community is built around the ideals
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enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of
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charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language
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and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to
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customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. For those
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reasons, the team behind Edubuntu makes the following public commitment to its
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community of users worldwide:
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Edubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the
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"enterprise edition," we make our very best work available to everyone
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on the same Free terms.
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Edubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure
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that the free software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable for as many
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Edubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six
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months. You can use the current stable release or the current development
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release. Each release is supported for at least 18 months.
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Edubuntu is entirely committed to the principles of open source software
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development; we encourage people to use open source software, improve it
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and pass it on.</para>
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Find out more at <ulink url="http://www.edubuntu.org">the Edubuntu
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<!-- ABOUT THE EDUBUNTU NAME -->
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<sect1 id="about-name" status="complete">
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<title>A prepaus del nom</title>
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Edubuntu combines education and Ubuntu to form the name (pronounced
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"ed-oo-BOON-too"). Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing
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on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the
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Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu (pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is seen as a
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traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of
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the new republic of South Africa and is connected to the idea of an African
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A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others".
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Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that
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connects all humanity".
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<attribution>Arquevesque Desmond Tutu</attribution>
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"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others,
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does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a
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proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a
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greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when
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others are tortured or oppressed."
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As a platform based on Ubuntu Linux, the Edubuntu operating system brings the
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spirit of ubuntu to the educational world.
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<!-- FREE SOFTWARE -->
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<sect1 id="free-software" status="complete">
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<title>Logicial liure</title>
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The Edubuntu project is entirely committed to the principles of free software
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development; people are encouraged to use free software, improve it, and pass it
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"Free software" doesn't mean that you shouldn't have to pay for it
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(although Edubuntu is committed to being free of charge as well); it means that
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you should be able to use the software in any way you wish: the code that makes
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up free software is available for anyone to download, change, fix, and use in
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any way. Alongside ideological benefits, this freedom also has technical
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advantages: when programs are developed, the hard work of others can be used and
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built upon. With non-free software, this cannot happen and when programs are
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developed, they have to start from scratch. For this reason the development of
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free software is fast, efficient and exciting!
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You can find out more about free software and the ideological and technical
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philosophy behind it at the <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/">GNU
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<sect1 id="difference" status="complete">
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<title>La diferéncia</title>
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There are many different operating systems based on Linux: Debian, SuSE, Gentoo,
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RedHat, and Mandriva are examples. Edubuntu is yet another contender in what is
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already a highly competitive world. So what makes Edubuntu different?
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Edubuntu aims to create a distribution that provides an up-to-date and coherent
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Linux system for educational desktop and server computing. Edubuntu includes a
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number of carefully selected packages from the Debian distribution, which
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Ubuntu is based on, and retains its powerful package management system which
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allows easy installation and clean removal of programs. Unlike most
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distributions that ship with a large amount of software that may or may not be
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of use, Edubuntu's list of packages is reduced to a number of important
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applications of high quality and educational importance.
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By focusing on quality, Edubuntu produces a robust and feature-rich computing
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environment that is suitable for use in both home and educational environments.
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The project takes the time required to focus on finer details and is able to
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release a version featuring the latest and greatest of today's software once
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every 6 months. Edubuntu is available in downloads for the i386
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(386/486/PentiumII/III/IV and Athlon/Duron/Sempron processors) and AMD64
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(Athlon64, Opteron, and new 64-bit Intel processors).
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<sect1 id="desktop" status="complete">
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<title>Lo burèu</title>
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The desktop is what you see after you log in to your computer and what you
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use to manage and run applications. The default desktop environment for
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Edubuntu is <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org/">GNOME</ulink>, a leading
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UNIX and Linux desktop suite and development platform.
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Another leading UNIX and Linux desktop is <ulink url="http://www.kde.org">KDE</ulink>. The <ulink url="http://www.kubuntu.org">Kubuntu</ulink> project offers Edubuntu users
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an alternative choice to the default GNOME desktop environment. Thanks to the
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efforts of the Kubuntu team, Edubuntu users are now able to install and use the
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KDE desktop easily on their system. To get a working install of Kubuntu on an
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Edubuntu install, install the <application>edubuntu-desktop-kde</application>
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package. Once <application>edubuntu-desktop-kde</application> is installed, one
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can choose to use either a Gnome or KDE desktop environment.
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<!-- VERSION AND RELEASE NUMBER INFO -->
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<sect1 id="version-release-numbers" status="complete">
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<title>Version e numeròs de version</title>
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The Edubuntu version numbering scheme is based on the date we release a version
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of the distribution. The version number comes from the year and month of the
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release rather than reflecting the actual version of the software. Our first
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release (Warty Warthog) was in October 2005 so its version was 5.10. This
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version (Gutsy Gibbon) was released in October 2007 so its version number is
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<sect1 id="support" status="complete">
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<title>Backing and Support</title>
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Edubuntu is maintained by a quickly growing community. The project is sponsored
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by <ulink url="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical Ltd.</ulink>, a holding
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company founded by Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical employs the core Edubuntu
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developers and offers support and consulting services for Edubuntu.
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Canonical Ltd. also sponsors a number of other Open Source software projects,
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about which more information can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical website</ulink>.
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<title>Qu'es Linux ?</title>
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The <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org">Linux kernel</ulink>, pronounced
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'linnuks' is the heart of the Ubuntu operating system. A kernel is an important
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part of any operating system, providing the communication bridge between
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hardware and software.
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Linux was brought to life in 1991 by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds. At
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the time, it would run only on i386 systems, and was essentially an
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independently created clone of the UNIX kernel, intended to take advantage of
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the then-new i386 architecture.
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Nowadays, thanks to a substantial amount of development effort by people all
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around the world, Linux runs on virtually every modern architecture.
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The Linux kernel has gained an ideological importance as well as a technical
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one. There is an entire community of people who believe in the ideals of free
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software and spend their time helping to make open source technology as good as
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People in this community gave rise to initiatives such as Ubuntu, standards
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committees that shape the development of the Internet, organizations like the
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Mozilla Foundation, responsible for creating Mozilla Firefox, and countless
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other software projects from which you've certainly benefited in the past.
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The spirit of open source, commonly attributed to Linux, is influencing software
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developers and users everywhere to drive communities with common goals.
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<sect1 id="gnu" status="complete">
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<title>Qu'es GNU ?</title>
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The <emphasis><acronym>GNU</acronym> Project</emphasis>, pronounced “guh-noo”,
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was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is
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comprised of free software: the <acronym>GNU</acronym> system. Variants of the
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<acronym>GNU</acronym> operating system, which use the Linux kernel, are now
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The <acronym>GNU</acronym> project is closely linked to the philosophy of free
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software, which is central to the projects that derive from it, such as Ubuntu.
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The concept of free software is explained at <xref linkend="free-software"/>.
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