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Wat is Ubuntu MATE?

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Ubuntu MATE is een besturingssysteem - De kern die uw computer doet werken, vergelijkbaar met   Windows van Microsoft,   OS X van Apple en   Chrome OS van Google. Ubuntu MATE is een distributie (variant) van GNU/Linux. Een betrouwbaar, veilig, bekwaam en modern besturingssysteem dat wedijvert met alle anderen in populariteit en feitelijk gebruik.

Anders dan andere besturingssystemen, Linux is een belangrijk systeem gebruikt op:

  • Het overgrote deel van 's werelds snelste en krachtigste supercomputers
  • veel (indien niet de meeste) computers die ervoor zorgen dat de backbone van internet werkt
  • zakelijke servers waarop stabiliteit en betrouwbaarheid vereist zijn

Ubuntu MATE is een stabiel, gemakkelijk te gebruiken besturingssysteem met een configureerbaar bureaubladomgeving. Het is ideaal voor diegenen onder ons die het meeste uit hun computers willen persen, en die een traditioneel bureaublad verkiezen. Het is geschikt voor moderne desktops en laptops, single board computers (zoals de Raspberry Pi) alsook oudere hardware.

Het besturingssysteem is veiliger en beter ondersteund dan het besturingssysteem dat de dag van vandaag op de meeste computers vooraf geïnstalleerd wordt.

Using Ubuntu MATE provides you with the freedom to run a complete, full-featured operating system, pre-configured with most (if not all) of the applications you will need for your daily computing. Change anything about the way it looks, the way it works, or the applications it runs to suit your taste.


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Ubuntu MATE has a number of guiding objectives and goals:

  • Toegankelijk voor iedereen, los van taal en fysiek vermogen.
  • Verhoog de acceptatie van Ubuntu en het MATE bureaubladomgeving door gebruikers.
  • Ubuntu alternatief voor computers die niet krachtig genoeg zijn om een bureaubladomgeving te draaien die gebruikt maakt van compositing.
  • Éérste keuze Ubuntu platform voor externe werkstation oplossingen zoals LTSP en X2Go.
  • Recreate the halcyon days of Ubuntu for users who prefer a traditional desktop metaphor.
  • Use themes and artwork similar to Ubuntu so that Ubuntu MATE is immediately familiar.
  • When possible contribute to Debian so both the Debian and Ubuntu communities benefit.
  • Software selection will favor functionality and stability over lightness and whimsy.

Wat is Ubuntu MATE?

Ubuntu

Ubuntu

Ubuntu is one of, if not the, largest deployed Linux based desktop operating systems in the world. Linux is at the heart of Ubuntu and makes it possible to create secure, powerful and versatile operating systems, such as Ubuntu en Android. Android is now in the hands of billions of people around the world and it's also powered by Linux.

Ubuntu is beschikbaar in een aantal verschillende smaken, each coming with its own desktop environment. Ubuntu MATE takes the Ubuntu base operating system and adds the MATE Desktop.

MATE Desktop

Wikipedia zegt dat a Desktop Environment is:

an implementation of the desktop metaphor made of a bundle of programs running on top of a computer operating system, which share a common graphical user interface (GUI). Desktop GUIs help the user to easily access and edit files.

The MATE Desktop implements essential features that you'd expect in a desktop environment, such as:

Bestandsbrowser Rekenmachine Archief beheerder Afbeeldings viewer Document Viewer Systeemmonitor Terminal
caja galculator engrampa eom atril mate-system-moniotr mate-terminal
Welke allen in hoge mate aanpasbaar zijn en beheerd worden via het   Control Center.

MATE Desktop provides an intuitive and attractive desktop environment using traditional metaphors, which means if you've ever used   Windows of   OS X, het zal heel vertrouwd aanvoelen.

The MATE Desktop has a rich history and is the continuation of the GNOME 2 desktop, which was the default desktop environment on many Linux and Unix operating systems for over a decade. This means that MATE Desktop is tried, tested and very reliable.

MATE Desktop

Open Source

Open Source Initiative

What Linux, Ubuntu and MATE Desktop all have in common is they are Open Source. This software can be freely used, changed, and shared (in modified or unmodified form) by anyone. In a nutshell Ubuntu MATE is free, in the truest sense of the word.

Although you will find some distributions (variations) of Linux for purchase, the vast majority are provided free of charge, like Ubuntu MATE. The distribution is licensed in a way that allows anyone to give it away for free, with no strings attached. For example, the licence gives any member of the user community the freedom to use Linux for any purpose, to distribute, modify, redistribute, or even sell the operating system. If you do modify and then redistribute Linux with your modifications, you are required by the licence to submit your modifications for possible inclusion into future versions. There is no guarantee that this will ever happen, but if you have made it better, then your changes just might be included in the next release of Ubuntu MATE.

Many of the users of Linux are corporations that use the operating system to run their businesses, or include it within their products. Many of these corporations provide fixes and new features for Linux as they use the software for their businesses. These improvements are given back to the Linux community and Ubuntu MATE improves as a result. This is how we can continually improve and grow without having to charge our users money.

Unlike Windows and OS X, Linux is not created and supported by just one company. It is supported by Intel, Redhat, Linaro, Samsung, IBM, SUSE, Texas Instruments, Google, Canonical, Oracle, AMD, and Microsoft. Over 4,000 developers contributed to Linux over the last 15 years.

Whether you are a home user of Ubuntu MATE, an Ubuntu MATE software or application developer, or an employee of an organization that uses the operating system, you are a member of the Linux and Open Source communities and benefit from the efforts of the developers who contribute to Ubuntu MATE and its related projects: Linux, MATE, and Ubuntu. Members of the community run Linux on almost any hardware, from the prettiest Macbook to the cheapest netbook, from the newest Chromebook to some very old machines designed for Windows, and from the most powerful Internet servers to the smallest smart thermostat.