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What are Ubuntu and Linux? What's the difference between them? For many people have such doubts, today with your questions to follow the editor to have a look.

Ubuntu: is an open source gnu and Linux operating system based on desktop applications. Ubuntu is based on DebianGNU/Linux and supports x86, amd64 (x64) and ppc architectures. The first version of Ubuntu was released in 2004 based on Debian. The main versions of uabntu are ubuntu based on Gnome, Kubuntu based on KDE, and Xubuntu based on Xfce.

Linux:Linux is a free-to-use and free-spread Unix-like operating system. It is a multi-user, multi-task, multi-threaded and multi-CPU operating system based on POSIX and UNIX. It runs major UNIX tools, applications, and network protocols. It supports 32 bit and 64 bit hardware. Linux inherits the design idea of Unix with network as the core, and is a multi-user network operating system with stable performance.

After the development of Linux operating system, many distributions have been derived. Ubuntu is one of them, and it is also the most similar Linux distribution to Windows, which is suitable for beginners.

Linux has many distributions, divided by nature into commercial Sakamoto maintained by commercial companies and free versions maintained by the open source community.

The commercial version is represented by REHAT, and the open source community version is represented by Debian. These versions have their own differences and play different roles.

Ubuntu belongs to a release version of Linux, with a beautiful user interface, perfect package management system, strong software source support, rich technical community, Ubuntu also has good compatibility with most hardware, including the latest graphics cards, etc., so that Ubuntu is becoming more and more popular.

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