Ututo

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Ututo
Website	ututo.org
Company/ developer	The Ututo Team
OS family	Linux
Source model	Free software
Latest stable release	XS 2007.1 / June 2007
Supported platforms	i586
Kernel type	Monolithic kernel
License	Various
Working state	Current

Ututo GNU/Linux is a Linux distribution based on Gentoo Linux with the main goal of producing an operating system comprised entirely of free software. The name makes reference to a gecko known by this name from northern Argentina.

The founder of the GNU Project, Richard Stallman, formerly endorsed the distribution nearly exclusively, before he switched to gNewSense.^[1]

1 History
2 UTUTO versus Ututo nomenclature
3 UTUTO-Get
4 Ututo GNU/FreeBSD project
5 References
6 External links

[edit] History

The first version, created in October 2000 in Argentina by Diego Saravia of the National University of Salta, was very simple to use and could be run from a CD without installation onto the hard disk.^{[citation needed]} It was one of the first live CDs ever made.

In 2002, Ututo-R was created, which offered the possibility of operating like a software router. This version was created by Marcos Zapata and was installed on school and government computers of Buenos Aires, among other places.

In 2004, the Ututo-e project was born, swiftly becoming the most important derivative of Ututo. This project was started by Daniel Olivera, and is now maintained and developed by numerous worldwide collaborators. Ututo-e was envisioned by Pablo de Napoli, a mathematician and professor at the University of Buenos Aires, who believed there should be a desktop system completely based on free software while also taking advantage of the available computer hardware in Argentina.^{[citation needed]} The computers available in Argentina are generally slower in comparison with other nations, which made it necessary to develop a system that was not very resource-intensive.

The latest versions of Ututo come with the label "XS". With the emergence of the XS series, there have been many new features, including a faster system installer. Most installations of Ututo XS do not exceed thirty minutes^{[citation needed]}, but depends on the speed and efficiency of one's hardware.

[edit] UTUTO versus Ututo nomenclature

The Ututo project frequently uses the term "UTUTO" to describe the project's title and operating system distribution and in several other areas. It is not an acronym, as they are often used in free software projects. Usage of "UTUTO" in substitution for "Ututo" is purely aesthetic, and is not technical by any means.

[edit] UTUTO-Get

The emergence of a highly usable package management system for Ututo has been the topic of many discussions over a few years. Pablo Rizzo has designed UTUTO-Get, an easy tool for maintaining a package database while using Ututo. Modeled after Debian's powerful APT, it should be perfected when Ututo XS 2007 is released.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Ututo GNU/FreeBSD project

Along with its usual development of a Linux distribution, the Ututo team has begun working on an operating system using the FreeBSD kernel with a set of GNU userland utilities. These are purported to be complete alongside the XS 2007 release of Ututo GNU/Linux.^{[citation needed]} This will be the first BSD-centric operating system marked as entirely free by the standards of the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.^{[citation needed]}