Ubuntu 9.10 - Released Today

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What is Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is an open-source alternative to Windows and Office.

The Ubuntu promise

• Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates
• Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world
• Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features that the free software community has to offer
• Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.

Features

• E-Mail and Chat
• Browse the Internet
• Office applications
• Store, sync and share
• Integrated "Ubuntu One" technology gives you 2 GB of online storage for free.
• Easily share files between your own and your friends' computers. Ugrade at low cost for more storage if you need it.

Ubuntu is the most popular base OS for people building workloads to deploy in the cloud. Whether on Amazon EC2 or VMWare infrastructure, there is more action around Ubuntu-based virtual cloud appliances than any other OS. Ubuntu is the most popular Linux platform for developers, and those developers are now focused on delivering solutions for the cloud.

The combination of Ubuntu's huge selection of pre-packaged software solutions, a modular architecture, and the enormous Ubuntu developer community make it a perfect complement for the rapid move of innovation to the cloud.