On October 20, 2004, Ubuntu 4.10 was officially released, codenamed 'Warty Warthog'.
▲ Comparison between Ubuntu 4.10 and the latest version of Ubuntu 23.10
As the first version of Ubuntu, 4.10 was immediately welcomed by the majority of Linux users after its release. It was equipped with the latest GNOME 2.8 desktop environment at the time, as well as a series of practical software, such as Mozilla Firefox 0.9, Evolution 2.0 and OpenOffice.org 1.1.2. In addition, the officially provided installation CD can automatically detect hardware and configure support, which also greatly simplifies the installation of X.
Therefore, at that time, Ubuntu was undoubtedly the fastest Linux distribution for users to get started.
And since 2005, Ubuntu has also launched a free CD distribution plan. Anyone, anywhere, can apply to Canonical to have a free CD shipped. However, due to the popularity of broadband technology, Canonical terminated the plan in April 2011.
