Successful distribution of the operating system GNU / Linux called Ubuntu, for which development is the South African billionaire Mark Shuttleworth and his company Canonical might not be a long time. In a few years of its existence has become one of the most popular and workstations helped increase the percentage of use of alternative operating systems in the world.
In addition to its basic version has the same Ubuntu officially supported a number of derivatives such as Kubuntu (KDE default GUI), Ubuntu Server (application servers), but also interesting for us Edubuntu. As the name suggests, it is a distribution focused on education.