Our first release was codenamed "The Warty Warthog Release". It aimed to be a functional if not pretty snapshot of Debian Unstable, with a few specific feature goals. Future releases will add more integration, polish and distribution documentation.
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog), released on 20 October 2004, is Canonical's first release of Ubuntu, building upon Debian, with plans for a new release every six months and eighteen months of support thereafter.[2] It used the ext3 file system. Support ended on 30 April 2006.[14] Ubuntu 4.10 was offered as a free download and, through Canonical's ShipIt service,[15] was also mailed to users free of charge in CD format.[16]