Ututo

Ututo is a product from Argentina project, which released a Linux distribution and, based on software projects are developed and carried out activities in the field of education.

Called The Linux distribution, Ututo GNU / Linux, is driven mainly by Argentine developers since 2000, based on Gentoo Linux and consists entirely of free software.

The name comes from a Ututo in Argentina widespread gecko species.

History of development

The first version of Ututo was developed by Diego Saravia at the University of Salta in October 2000. The goal was a Linux version that could be completely start from a CD (Live - CD). Ututo was one of the first distributions that achieved this goal.

2002, the project Ututo -R was started, a version of the operating system, which had as a goal to work as a software router. Ututo -R was installed in Argentina on multiple networks in organizations and schools, for example, in Buenos Aires.

The version Ututo -e, a desktop version, was launched in 2004. It was developed with the primary goal of offering a full-fledged operating system with the base composed entirely of free software that will run on older hardware, as it is often still found in Argentina, especially in the aftermath of the Argentine crisis.

Since 2005, the operating system is referred to as Ututo XS, because the newer versions a completely new design, including easy installation environment have. The Live CD version is also referred to by this name, but as Ututo XS Vivo (Spanish for live).

Other activities

The Ututo project developed in addition to the operating system is different as related software projects, including a system for operating an online radio and an Internet television ( Ututo Free TV), a work based on Ututo XS supercomputer cluster and a software for operating an IPv6 network. At times, the project also worked on a distribution of FreeBSD ( Ututo GNU / BSD), but this was discontinued.

Specific features and characteristics

Ututo composed entirely of free software. This makes for instance be noticeable that even well-known proprietary plugins like Adobe Flash are replaced by free alternatives like Gnash. At least up to version XS 2006, there were by this strict ethics Convention also disadvantages that were felt approximately in compatibility and performance problems compared to other Linux distributions.

Ututo is one of the few distributions of Linux, which provide a special version for different processor architectures. There are, for example, within the x86 versions one for AMD processors and Intel's Pentium 4 for This allows better use of the individual architectures.

Another feature used Ututo since version 2007 XS own package management called Ututo -Get (now UGET ), which can manage both Debian and RPM packages.

Ututo - e or Ututo XS -based by default on the GNOME desktop environment. Since version XS 2007, however, the alternative environments KDE, Fluxbox and IceWM are supplied on the installation CD.

Reception

The Ututo project was recognized in 2006 by the Argentine Chamber of Deputies as a project of national interest.

About the Ututo project was reported among others in the great Argentinean newspapers Clarín, Página/12 and La Capital. Also the Wired magazine dedicated Ututo 2001 article.

Became internationally known distribution especially since it was used by Richard Stallman, founder of the GNU project, to the development of gNewSense longer time and recommended by the Free Software Foundation for the renunciation of proprietary ingredients.