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what is freeware

Freeware ( from “free” and “software” ) is a computer software which can be used by anyone for free of cost. A software classified as freeware works fully and it is available for unlimited time access with no cost. Freeware can be proprietary software available at zero price.

The software license may impose restrictions on the type of use including personal/individual use, commercial/non-commercial use, academic use, non-profit use or combination of all these. The license may be free for personal and non-commercial use.

Freeware may or may not be free and open source software. Free software foundation asks users to avoid calling “freeware” free software. Free software can be studied, used and modified without any restriction. Freeware is different from shareware.

Freeware provides users to access whole feature of the software without any limitation/cost, where shareware requests users to pay money after the trial period of the software or to provide full feature of the software.

Ubuntu Operating System

Ubuntu is an Operating System for computers based on Debian GNU/Linux. It is freeware, it provides an up-to-date, stable Operating system, with strong focus on usability and ease-to-installation. It has been selected by the readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktops, claiming about 30% of Linux desktop installations in both 2006 and 2007. Ubuntu is created of multiple software packages distributed as a free software or an open source license. The main license used is the GNU General Public License(GNU GPL). Explicitly declares that users are free to run, copy, change, study, distribute and develop and improve the software. This Operating system is sponsored by the UK Based company Canonical Ltd., By keeping Ubuntu free, Canonical is able to utilize the talents of the community developers in Ubuntu’s constituent components.
Canonical provides support for four more Ubuntu-derived operating systems: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu and Ubuntu JeOS. It releases new versions of Ubuntu for every six months. Long Term Support(LTS) versions, which are released every two years. The recent version of Ubuntu is 9.04, which is released on 23rd April, 2009, and the upcoming version, Karmic Koala, is to be released on 29th October, 2009.

UBUNTU

Dell, Tesco and Gliese IT are offer computers with Ubuntu pre-installed since 2007, while System76 has has done so since 2005. Dell computers using Ubuntu 8.04 has extra support for ATI Video Graphics, Fingerprint Readers, Bluetooth, Dell Wireless, HDMI and WMA/WMV/MP3.

Ubuntu

Features of UBUNTU:

• Usability and Security
• UTF-8 Character encoding
• sudo tool is used
• Comes with OpenOffice, Firefox, Pidgin, GIMP, Transmission and several lightweight games.
• GNOME(current default desktop) supports more than 46 languages.
• It runs many programs designed for Microsoft Windows9such as Microsoft Office), through Wine.
• Install directly from a hard drive(via UNetbootin).
• It is available on the PowerPC.
• Kubuntu and Ubuntu can be run and boot from an USB Flash drive.
• USB creator program is available to install Ubuntu on a USB drive(with or without a LiveCD disc).

System Requirements:

• It currently supports the AMD64, Intel x86 and ARM architecture.
• Minimum system requirements for a desktop installation are 300 MHz x86 processor, 256 MB RAM, 4GB space of hard drive and video card that supports VGA at 640×480 resolution.
• The server requires 300MHz x86 processor, 64MB RAM, and video card that supports VGA at 640×480.