Ubuntu is a computer operating system, somewhat like Windows or Mac OS X.  Unlike Windows & Mac, it is maintained and supported by thousands of people from all over the world, for whom their work is more a labor of love than a for-profit venture.

Ubuntu supports thousands of software packages capable of doing just about anything you can imagine, from spreadsheets & documents to audio and video production, electronic and mechanical design, website hosting, database management, photographic manipulation, image creation - if you can imagine it, there is software that can help you do it, and...

It's all free.   The operating system is free, and with very rare exception, all of the software titles are free. You can use the software on as many computers as you like with no worries about cost or software licenses. It's all free.   No need to register any software - no one knows or cares who you are, no one is going to try and sell you anything, no strange, annoying pop-ups, no advertisements, no viruses, no unexplainable losses in performance after a year or so of operation, no so-called bloatware... just a system that works. For free.

This is not to say that commercial software is bad - it's not, in and of itself, bad. What it is is expensive. It serves little purpose to purchase software that you may end up not using to its full benefit when there exists perfectly excellent software that you can use all you want - for free.   Thousands and thousands of applications serving thousands of needs available for no charge - ever.

Ubuntu is just one of many fine Linux-based operating systems. Others include: Linux Mint, Mandriva, Fedora, Debian, Arch, openSUSE, too many to list here, most of which are very good, so why Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is excellent for people who've never used a Linux-based operating system before. It is superbly configured for computer users - people from all walks of life who don't happen to be computer experts - rather people who want to use their computers and not spend large amounts of time tweaking or troubleshooting them. Ubuntu just works. Very well. And for free.

Linux-based operating systems don't tend to support playing MP3 files or DVDs right from the start - additional software must be added after the initial installation in order to get that, but Ubuntu makes this quite easy. Linux Mint has MP3 & DVD support right from the start, but, as of this writing, their software center is just not quite as good as Ubuntu's (in our humble opinion), so Ubuntu gets the nod.

This entire website was created on an Ubuntu desktop operating system. This website is hosted on the Linux-based Cent-OS operating system. Savannah Radio Online's audio servers and websites are hosted on an Ubuntu server operating system.

Ubuntu is Linux for human beings.  Check it out!