Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Live/Install CD

For i386 For amd64

One CD £1.50

Standard Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop, and here the accent is on simplicity. When you start the system for the first time you are greeted by a desktop that is unusually clean and tidy. No desktop icons by default! Even the recycling bin has been moved down to the taskbar. The default theme is designed to be easy on the eye. But Linux is inherently flexible; you can customise the look and behaviour of the desktop in a range of ways, from simply changing the default theme to selecting a different desktop environment altogether.

Ubuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD

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One CD £1.50

The Ubuntu Alternate CD uses the text installer instead of the new GUI installer. It needs less system memory and permits advanced installs with preseeded options as well as LVM or RAID disk configurations.

Ubuntu 8.04 Live/Install DVD

For i386 For amd64

One DVD-R £4.00

The Ubuntu DVD combines the functions of the Desktop and Alternate Install CD's in one convenient package.

Ubuntu 8.04 Server CD

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One CD £1.50

With the latest release, 8.04 LTS, the Ubuntu Server Edition adds support for several common configurations, bringing the ease of use that Ubuntu has become famous for on the desktop to server deployments. The Ubuntu Server Edition provides a well-integrated platform for deploying a new server with any of the standard internet services: mail, web, DNS, file serving or database management.

A key lesson from the Debian heritage is that of security by default. The Ubuntu Server has no open ports after the installation and contains only the essential software needed to build a secure server.

Automatic LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP): in about 15 minutes, the time it takes to install Ubuntu Server Edition, you can have a LAMP server up and ready to go. This feature, exclusive to Ubuntu Server Edition, is available at the time of installation.

The LAMP option saves the trouble of installing and integrating each of the four separate LAMP components, a process which can take hours and requires someone who is skilled in the installation and configuration of the individual applications. You get increased security, reduced time to install, and reduced risk of misconfiguration, all of which results in a lower cost of ownership.

Kubuntu 8.04 Desktop Live/Install CD

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One CD £1.50

Kubuntu 8.04 incorporates the KDE 3.5 desktop, see KDE 3.5 Visual Guide for a full description. A notable feature is zeroconf which aims to allow network communication without configuration.

Kubuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD

For i386 For amd64

One CD £1.50

The Kubuntu Alternate CD uses the text installer instead of the new GUI installer. It needs less system memory and permits advanced installs with preseeded options as well as LVM or RAID disk configurations.

Kubuntu 8.04 Live/Install DVD

For i386 For amd64

One DVD-R £4.00

The Kubuntu DVD combines the functions of the Kubuntu Desktop and Alternate Install CD's in one convenient package, with the KDE desktop.

Edubuntu 8.04 Add-On CD

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One CD £1.50

Edubuntu, or Ubuntu Education Edition, is the education-focused counterpart of Ubuntu. Based on Ubuntu, it offers regular releases, a simple and intuitive desktop and a tight selection of excellent packages suited to an education environment. The default install bundle includes education and productivity applications, and an incredible variety of packages is available a few clicks away from a global network of mirrors. Edubuntu comes with the fully integrated iTalc classroom management software allowing for teacher sharing, monitoring and control of networked workstations and thin clients.

Edubuntu is installed as an add-on to the standard Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop or Server. To install from the add-on CD you require an existing Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system as as a base.

You can use the Ubuntu Education Edition CD either to install the full Edubuntu education environment and desktop in one operation, or select individual Education applications from the bundle for installation onto your Ubuntu desktop environment. There are two possible types of installation:

• A Classroom Server
  • requires Ubuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD (above) and this Edubuntu Add-On CD
  • will give the classroom 'LTSP' thin-client capabilities, allowing you to use cheap thin-client terminals and reducing system administration workload.
• A Work Station
  • requires Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop (or Alternate Install CD if you prefer) (above) and this Edubuntu Add-On CD
  • will give you a standalone (ie not thin-client) workstation for teacher or pupil to use, for example at home

Using Ubuntu Education Edition, schools will benefit from increased functionality as well as significant cost reductions for classroom use, and pupils can use Edubuntu at home, free of any software cost. See the Edubuntu home page here for more details.

Installation instructions are here. Remember! You need to order the appropriate Ubuntu Desktop and/or Alternate Install CDs as well as this Edubuntu Add-On CD, or for convenience order the Edubuntu Bundle below.

Edubuntu 8.04 CD Bundle

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Set of 3 CDs £4.00

This is a convenient bundle of three CDs, allowing you to set up any Edubuntu 8.04 configuration:

• The Edubuntu Add-On CD
• The Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop CD
• The Ubuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD

Xubuntu 8.04 Desktop Live/Install CD

For i386 For amd64

One CD £1.50

Xubuntu uses the xfce desktop instead of Gnome or KDE: xfce is much slimmer, with a snappier response and has the added benefit of being able to run in less memory. This combined live and install CD requires 192Mb of memory to run and install, and once installed 128Mb to run, but the Alternate Install disk can install and run in less.

Xubuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD

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One CD £1.50

The Xubuntu Alternate Install CD gives the experienced user much more choice and flexibility during the install process and has the added benefit of requiring less memory for the install.

Ubuntu Studio 8.04 Alternate Install DVD

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One DVD-R £3.00

Ubuntu Studio provides a suite of the best open source applications for multimedia creation. It is aimed at professionals as well as GNU/Linux audio, video and graphics enthusiasts. It includes:

• Ardour 2 multitrack recorder/editor, geared toward people familiar with Pro-Tools
• Graphics
  • GIMP image editor
  • Inkscape
  • Blender
  • dcraw plugin for RAW camera files
  • wacom-tools plugin for Wacom tablets
• Video creation
  • PiTiVi
  • Kino
  • CinePaint

More details are available at the Ubuntu Studio website.

Please note that although this is a DVD, the functionality is equivalent to that of an Alternate Install CD in other Ubuntu variants.

Kubuntu KDE4 8.04 Desktop Live/Install CD

For i386 For amd64

One CD £1.50

Kubuntu-KDE4 is the cutting edge version of Kubuntu comprising a remix of Kubuntu using the KDE4 Desktop. KDE4 is the latest version of KDE, built using Trolltech's superb Qt version 4 GUI toolkit. See the KDE4 Visual Guide.

Whilst the standard Kubuntu 8.04 provides rock-solid stability, Kubuntu-KDE4 gives you the opportunity to try out the exciting new features of KDE4. Experience the future today!

Kubuntu KDE4 8.04 Alternate Install CD

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One CD £1.50

This is the Alternate Install version of KDE4, providing the experienced installer with more options, greater flexibility and a faster install, and without the overhead of a live CD.

Mythbuntu 8.04 Desktop Live/Install CD

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One CD £1.50

Mythbuntu allows you to set up a standalone MythTV-based Personal Video Recorder (PVR) system. It can be used to prepare a standalone system or for integration with an existing MythTV network.

MythTV gives you a fully-featured modern computer-based video recording system capable of recording multiple simultaneous broadcasts, sophisticated pre-programming and, if you wish, remote operation from a browser via the internet using MythWeb. For example, if on the way to work reading your newspaper, you see that you're going to miss a TV programme, you could log into your MythTV machine from work and set the machine to record it.

Note that Mythbuntu provides the software only: you will need to buy and configure the appropriate hardware, and you will be rewarded with a system which outperforms most commercial systems and has the added benefit of being completely open and configurable by you. Your recorded data will always be fully available for archiving and transfer to other systems.

Mythbuntu is developed by the community which keeps close ties with Ubuntu and gives all development back to Ubuntu. This architecture allows simple conversions from a standard desktop to a Mythbuntu machine and vice versa. The development cycle of Mythbuntu closely follows that of Ubuntu, releasing every six months with Ubuntu releases.

Mythbuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD

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One CD £1.50

The Mythbuntu Alternate Install CD for more flexibility.

Gobuntu 8.04 Alternate Install CD

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One CD £1.50

Gobuntu is Ubuntu, but with all non-free software removed (no proprietary drivers, no driver firmware downloads, no restricted content, etc). If you value having a Free Software distribution above more practical considerations, this is the Ubuntu for you.

Please note that because running Gobuntu on most laptops and many desktops may be difficult, Gobuntu is intended for experienced Linux enthusiasts at this time.

JeOS 8.04 Alternate Install CD

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One CD £1.50

JeOS (Just Enough Operating System), sometimes known as juice, is a lightweight version of Ubuntu Server configured specifically for virtual appliances. It is optimised for virtualisation and reduces the complexity and maintenance overhead normally associated with using general purpose operating systems for virtualisation. Ubuntu JeOS Edition has been tuned to take advantage of the key performance technologies of the latest virtualisation products from VMware. The combination of reduced size and optimised performance ensures that Ubuntu JeOS delivers a highly efficient use of server resources in large virtual deployments.

You can learn more about Ubuntu JeOS here. If you're not sure if you need JeOS, then most probably you don't.