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=Introduction=
Ubuntu is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software ‘Free and Open Source Software’] (called FOSS in short) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_system Operating System]. You may be familiar with Microsoft Windows operating system or used an application called Adobe Reader. Windows or Adobe Photoshop are ‘proprietary’ , meaning they cannot be copied or shared or modified by us; FOSS applications are licensed under the ‘General Public License’ which allows all of us to share the software freely, we can also modify the software as per our needs. Hence it is important to use FOSS in our schools. Teachers must learn and teach FOSS and avoid use of proprietary software, since it is not possible for all to access and use proprietary software, and not possible for anyone (other than the vendor) to study or improve the software.
Since all the software like Office suite, web browser, educational software can be bundled with Ubuntu GNU/Linux operating system, all these applications can be installed on the computer at one time. On proprietary software Windows, each software has to be separately installed, which can make it cumbersome and time consuming.
=Ubuntu benefits=
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=Hardware requirement for Ubuntu installation=
=Hardware requirement for Ubuntu installation=