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Nowadays, thanks to a substantial amount of development effort by people all around the world, Linux runs on virtually every modern architecture.
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The Linux kernel has gained an ideological importance as well as a technical one. There is an entire community of people who believe in the ideals of free software and spend their time helping to make open source technology as good as it can be.
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People in this community gave rise to initiatives such as Ubuntu, standards committees that shape the development of the Internet, organizations like the Mozilla Foundation, responsible for creating Mozilla Firefox, and countless other software projects from which you've certainly benefited in the past.
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The spirit of open source, commonly attributed to Linux, is influencing software developers and users everywhere to drive communities with common goals.
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What is GNU?
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The <emphasis>GNU Project</emphasis>, pronounced “guh-noo”, was launched in 1984 to develop a complete UNIX style operating system which is comprised of free software: the GNU system. Variants of the GNU operating system, which use the Linux kernel, are now widely used; though these systems are often referred to as “Linux,” they are more accurately called GNU/Linux systems.
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The GNU project is closely linked to the philosophy of free software, which is central to the projects that derive from it, such as Ubuntu. The concept of free software is explained at <xref linkend="free-software"/>.
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Getting Ubuntu
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There are a number of methods you may use to obtain a copy of Ubuntu, all of which are described on the Ubuntu Web site <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com/download">download page</ulink>.
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The first method is to download an ISO image from a mirror server near you and make a CD to install Ubuntu. Two types of CDs are available:
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