What is Ubuntu

Introduction to Ubuntu

I get asked the question what the hell is Ubuntu or Linux in general. Basically Ubuntu is a one of the leading Linux Distros.

Advantages

There comes added advantages of using Ubuntu as your primary operating system. As with other Linux flavor you eliminate the need of license fees as those associated with proprietary Operating Systems (OS).

You can still use paid 3rd party softwares within your Ubuntu environment. So you are not caged when it comes to software/applications. When it comes to support there is plenty of it under Ubuntu community for example you can find #ubuntu under Freenode

Get Ubuntu

Perhaps you asking yourself where to get this distro. There are many mirrors over the net offering Ubuntu iso for different desktop environment for example
Ubuntu , Lubuntu and there are more.

Conclusion

I hope you got some basic idea what Ubuntu is all about. Please search the web for more information.