Most Linux distributions are built to meet a specific purpose;
address a specific audience. There are USB-bootable versions,
live disks, and versions geared toward scientific research or
desktop publishing. Ubuntu Linux is one of the few distributions
designed around a philosophy. You may have heard about Ubuntu’s
founder and first developer, Mark Shuttleworth. Shuttleworth
gained worldwide fame on 25 April 2002 as a civilian cosmonaut
aboard the Russian Soyuz TM-34 mission, paying approximately
US$20 million. Two days later, the Soyuz spacecraft arrived at
the International Space Station, where he spent eight days
participating in experiments related to AIDS and genome
research. On 5 May, he returned to Earth. In order to
participate on the flight, Shuttleworth had to undergo one year
of training and preparation, including seven months spent in
Star City, Moscow. [Source: Wikipedia] In the 1990s,
Shuttleworth was a developer for Debian Linux. In 2004, he
released Ubuntu Linux. The Ubuntu Web site has this to