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This document is maintained by the Ubuntu documentation team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam). For a list of contributors, see the <ulink url="../../../common/C/contributors.xml">contributors page</ulink>

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Thank you for your interest in Edubuntu 9.04 - the <emphasis>Jaunty Jackalope</emphasis> - released in April 2009.

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Home users who would like to have a standalone computer system that focuses on education for the younger members of the household.

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Edubuntu is an operating system designed with education in mind. It is based on <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com"><phrase>Ubuntu</phrase></ulink>, a complete operating system that uses the Linux kernel and is freely available to the public. As an education-driven operating system, Edubuntu provides a complete solution for: <placeholder-1/>

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Edubuntu will always be free of charge, and there is no extra fee for the "enterprise edition," we make our very best work available to everyone on the same Free terms.

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Edubuntu includes the very best in translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer, to make Ubuntu usable for as many people as possible.

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Edubuntu is released regularly and predictably; a new release is made every six months. You can use the current stable release or the current development release. Each release is supported for at least 18 months.

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Since Edubuntu is based on Ubuntu, the team behind Edubuntu are part of the growing Ubuntu community. The Ubuntu community is built around the ideals enshrined in the Ubuntu Philosophy: that software should be available free of charge, that software tools should be usable by people in their local language and despite any disabilities, and that people should have the freedom to customize and alter their software in whatever way they see fit. For those reasons, the team behind Edubuntu makes the following public commitment to its community of users worldwide: <placeholder-1/>

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Edubuntu combines education and Ubuntu to form the name (pronounced "ed-oo-BOON-too"). Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu (pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is seen as a traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of the new republic of South Africa and is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance.

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A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity".