Mark Shuttleworth was the man who began with the idea of Ubuntu. However the concept of Ubuntu is much older, the concept behind the word is translated many ways but all boils down to being a good neighbor and treating others well.
The technology is not entirely the creation of Mark Shuttleworth, it is based on the work of thousands of others in the free and open source movement many of whom contribute to the Debian project which is the base of Ubuntu
Ubuntu Forums was created in 2004.
Ubuntu TV was created in 2012.
Ubuntu One was created in 2009-05.
Ubuntu Hacks was created in 2006-06.
Wubi - Ubuntu installer - was created on 2008-04-24.
Ubuntu - operating system - was created on 2004-10-20.
Ubuntu was first released on the 20th of October, 2004.
October 20, 2004
It was originally created to be a temporary fork of Debian to allow for the development of strong desktop features for it. In the end, however, Ubuntu stayed forked and Debian doesn't generally benefit from Ubuntu's feature set. Short answer: Ubuntu was created to produce a "user friendly" version of Debian.
2004
Yes. Ubuntu can read files and directories created by a Windows system.
Xubuntu and Ubuntu are two different versions of Ubuntu. (Ubuntu has GNOME.)