Hey guys, thanks for joining me again. Before we actually get into the
installation and use of Ubuntu, we are first going to talk about distributions
and what exactly that means. So, to explain what a distribution is we're gonna
load up this image here, and this image presented this way, and in the slideshow
in the previous video, is so large it's entirely illegible. So, we actually have
to zoom in quite a bit here. Now in the previous video I mentioned Debian and
how Debian was one of the first major Linux distributions along with Slackware, Red
Hat, and openSUSE they're the four different types of Linux distributions,
and a type is categorized based on the package manager. Now, there are different
Linux distributions that are not based on these four. For, instance Gen2 and Arch
Linux, however we are not going to focus on those at this time. So, Debian starts here in the
early 90's, and as time goes on it begins to get forked, which means that other
people come along and use the source code base of Debian to create their own
Linux distribution. Now, if we look for Ubuntu, I its believe this brown line
right here, we'll see how much forking of Ubuntu there's been. as well. So,
here is Ubuntu and immediately we've got all sorts of forks happening. Now there
are two different types of Ubuntu derivatives, and that is officially
recognized, and not officially recognized. So, a few examples of officially
recognized Ubuntu distributions are Kubuntu, Ubuntu Studio,
and Lubuntu, Xubuntu and basically Kubuntu is Ubuntu with KDE pre-installed
instead of Unity. So, Unity, is the desktop environment of Ubuntu, and a desktop
environment, we're gonna go more in depth into desktop environments in future
videos, however to give a little bit of an idea about what it is we're going to
just have a look at some images here. So, this is Unity. It's got a panel
across the top of the screen with different indicators, a clock, and this user
menu that you can access user accounts, system settings, etc. On the left hand side
it's quite another panel that acts as a dock, so opened applications and
applications that you pin to the dock will appear here. The top button here is
to launch the dash, and now the Ubuntu dash is incredible, I absolutely love it. While
I don't like much anything else about Ubuntu, the dash is really awesome. So,
you can actually search for files programs, etc., and you can even use the
Ubuntu to dash to find things online. So, it's actually a pretty neat concept.
Now Kubuntu has KDE pre-install which is a different environment, and so it's
gonna look and act differently. Now, this is KDE5 Plasma, they call the desktop
environment, so KDE Plasma 5 and obviously you can see the differences.
It's got a window list here of open windows, it's got the indicators time over
here, and the main menu right there, which looks like this.
Now, Kubuntu, Ubuntu Studio, and others are officially recognized derivatives of Ubuntu, but
Linux Mint is not. If we go to Linuxmint.com you'll see that they did
in fact develop their own desktop environment called Cinnamon, and Cinnamon
desktop environment is absolutely beautiful, it's one of my favorites.
Here we go, we
should be able to just click on this. This is Linux Mint with the Cinnamon desktop
environment. It's similar to a classic desktop environment in that it has a panel
at the bottom with the main menu, and a window list to open windows.
Elementary OS, it's right here, that's another one that I want to talk about. I've used
elementary in the past and it is well, in very different ways, is very beautiful,
very fun to use. The aesthetics alone are just absolutely mindblowing. They've got
the cleanest interface that I've seen. This is a transparent panel at the top
with an applications menu, the clock, the indicators, and it's got a dock for those.
Now, aside from this, their own desktop environment, they've also created other
software specifically for use with Elementary OS, such as the Pantheon
file manager, and that's one of my favorite file managers because it does a lot of
different things in a really neat way. Now, with a Ubuntu based distributions, installation
is practically the same, with a few exceptions. So, feel free to explore the
different Linux distributions if you don't think you'll have problems
following along with things look a bit different. Now, when I get Ubuntu set
up, I'm going to make some configurations, changes and show you guys how to
do that stuff, but feel free to you know explore the ocean of Linux distributions.
So, in the next video we're actually going to be installing VirtualBox and
Ubuntu, and we're going to be playing around with that a little bit, and
explaining the installation steps. So, thanks for watching and I'll see you
guys again soon.