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Xubuntu is developed and supported by a quickly growing community. The project is sponsored by <ulink url="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical Ltd.</ulink>, a holding company founded by Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical employs the core Ubuntu developers and offers support and consulting services for Ubuntu. More information about Canonical's support offerings can be found on the <ulink url="http://www.canonical.com">Canonical website</ulink>.
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Although Canonical does not provide professional consulting services support for Xubuntu at this time, Xubuntu user support is available through the Xubuntu community. Information regarding community support can be found at the <ulink url="http://www.xubuntu.org/help">Help & Support</ulink> page of the Xubuntu website.
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What is Linux?
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The <ulink url="http://www.kernel.org">Linux kernel</ulink>, pronounced 'linnuks' is the heart of the Xubuntu operating system. A kernel is an important part of any operating system, providing the communication bridge between hardware and software.
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Linux was brought to life in 1991 by a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds. At the time, it would run only on i386 systems, and was essentially an independently created clone of the UNIX kernel, intended to take advantage of the then-new i386 architecture.
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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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about-xubuntu/C/about-xubuntu.xml:277(para)
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What is GNU?
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