Fifteen years ago, on October 20, 2004, there was The first version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution is 4.10 “Warty Warthog”. The project was founded by Mark Shuttleworth, a South African millionaire who helped develop Debian Linux and was inspired by the idea of creating a desktop distribution accessible to end users with a predictable, fixed development cycle. Several developers from the Debian project were involved in the work, many of whom are still involved in the development of both projects.
The live build of Ubuntu 4.10 remains available for and allows you to evaluate what the system looked like 15 years ago. The release included
GNOME 2.8, XFree86 4.3, Firefox 0.9, OpenOffice.org 1.1.2.
Source: opennet.ru