Ubuntu is officially 5 years old today. Five years! Can you believe that?
Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog was released on the 20th October 2004.
Since then Ubuntu has hopped, skipped and jumped a hell of a long way. We have graphical installers, a graphical boot screen, WUBI, netbook remixes, easy installation of graphic drivers, a modern sound system in PulseAudio – all things that weren’t included in Ubuntu until various later releases!
I first hopped aboard the Ubuntu wagon during Gutsy, but i am aware of the awesome legacy that each successive release has helped to build, so let’s get all dreamy-eyed and nostalgic and take a quick look back at the releases so far…
Ubuntu 4.10 Warty Warthog – 20th October 2004
Notes: –
- The first release of Ubuntu
- First distro to be released using Gnome 2.8
- Firefox 0.9 default browser.
- Gaim was default IM client
Ubuntu 5.04 Hoary Hedgehog – 8th April 2005
- Introduced Update Manager
- Suspend, hibernate and standby included
- Firefox 1.0 default browser
- First release using XORG
Ubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) 12th October 2005
- First release using graphical Bootloader ‘Usplash’
- Add/remove introduced
- Firefox 1.0 default browser
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Dapper Drake – 1st June 2006
- First Long Term Support release
- Merged LiveCD and Install CD into one
- GUI for installation
- Introduction of the orange humanlooks theme
- GDebi introduced for GUI installation of .debs
- Firefox 1.5
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft – 26 October 2006
- Newly refreshed “human” theme
- Tomboy and F-Spot apps included by default
- Firefox 2.0
Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn – 19th April 2007
- Introduced the Migration assistant for new users
- Assisted codec installation
- Simplifed install of Graphics Drivers
- Firefox 2.0 default Browser
Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon – 18th October 2007
- AppArmor security introduced
- Desktop search & Ubufox Firefox add-on added
- Compiz enabled by default
- Fast user switching
- Firefox 2.0
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron – 24th April 2008
- Second long-term release.
- news apps included: brasero, tracker & transmission
- First release to use PulseAudio by default
- First release supporting WUBI
- Firefox 3.0 Beta default browser
Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex – 30th October 2008
- New apps: LiveUSB creator & fast-user-switch-applet
- Introduces guest account feature
- Firefox 3.0 default browser
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope – 23 April 2009
- Brings new Usplash and login screen
- Introduces NotifyOSD notifications
- Includes several community-themes by default
- Firefox 3.0 default browser
- Source: Images: Ubuntu Museum