Ututo

UTUTO is a distribution of the GNU operating system, which used its own Linux Libre kernel. The name refers to a species of lizard (Homonota borelli, Gekkonidae) from northern Argentina. It is compiled using the "ebuilds" and the software "emerges" from Gentoo Linux.

Ututo was the first distribution recognized as totally free by the GNU Project. The project was stopped updating on December 1, 2013. Currently a group of Ututo users is trying to organize themselves in order to revive the project.

History

Its first version, massively recorded for the first time in October 2000 in Argentina by Diego Saravia from the National University of Salta, was very simple to use and worked from the CD-ROM without the need for installation, a way of distributing a operating system known as live CD. UTUTO was one of the first GNU/Linux distributions on live CD^{[citation needed]}.

In 2002, UTUTO-R was created, offering the possibility of operating as a network router. This version was created by Marcos Zapata and installed, among other places, in public schools in the city of Buenos Aires.

In 2004 the UTUTO-e project was born, which is the most important derivative of UTUTO. Later it would become the UTUTO Project as a manager of projects based on free software and the distribution would receive the name of UTUTO XS.

On October 27, 2006, the Argentine Chamber of Deputies declared the UTUTO project to be of National Interest.

Features

UTUTO-e is a free software development project. This project was started by Daniel Olivera and the people who collaborate in the project are those who develop the current versions of UTUTO, identified as UTUTO XS.

UTUTO XS is characterized by being a completely free distribution, that is, it does not contain non-free programs according to the definition of the GNU Project. This earned him recognition from Richard Stallman, founder of GNU and the "Foundation for Free Software, which currently hosts UTUTO XS on its servers as one of its distributions. officially recommended.

UTUTO is based on Gentoo. UTUTO XS 2009 is available as a live DVD (autorunable DVD including installer), installation-only DVD, and "NetInstall" CD (for installation via the Internet), for different architectures. It includes GNOME, KDE version 4.1, and KDE version 3.5, as well as Icewm.

Like other distributions, all programs are compiled from source code. This allows you to optimize all installed software for each processor. UTUTO XS generates all the software optimized for different x86 architecture processors, since version 2005 also AMD Athlon 64-bit, and in 2009 Atom and OLPC XO are incorporated. This premise is true for the installation disks and the distribution's binary package repository. This optimization feature of software allows it to offer the highest possible performance in system interaction on the computer where it is installed.

Installation of programs is usually done using binaries, in addition to being able to use the Gentoo build system. Since the XS 2007 version, a new package manager called UTUTO-Get has been used, which was developed by Pablo Manuel Rizzo, a member of the UTUTO team, and more software is incorporated thanks to the change in the compression system.