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Asturix is an association focused on the development of free software and on the spreading of young entrepreneurism. It was created by Luis Iván Cuende and is currently maintained by the Dev Team. It is known for its operating system, in spite of the fact that it has also developed a desktop environment, Asturix On; a Startup company incubator, Asturix Incubator; or a voting platform, Asturix People, amongst others.

Asturix OS
Asturix OS is a linux distribution, based on Ubuntu. It has been recognized by mass and specialized media like Linux Magazine or La Nueva España. It was firstly designed as a regional distribution, but, eventually, it turned into a desktop distribution, aim at end users.

History
It all started in 2008 when Luis Ivan Cuende, a 12 years old student, thought that his region, Asturias, deserved to have a linux distribution focused on that place. It was firstly called AsturLinux, but a linux association from Asturix had that name, so the name was changed to Astur GNU/Linux and later to the current name, Asturix. In early 2009, Asturix had its own domain, and Asturix SO started to be developed. Until the third edition of Asturix, there was three versions: Business, Desktop and Lite. The 25th of February, Asturix 1 Desktop was released, and in the same day of March, the Business version was also released. The project was officially presented to the mass media in October, in Press Club Center of Oviedo. In November there was an Install Party of Asturix in PSOE’s local building, the People’s House. That Install Party was covered by a reporter from La Nueva España. Although the wide effect of Asturix 1, it was very similar to Ubuntu, and, consequently, if was also criticized for being an “unnecesary fork”.

That problem was slightly corrected in the second edition of Asturix, released in early 2010. It was presented in the Polytechnic School of Engineering of Gijón. It was coveres by the regional public television, RTPA and La Nueva España. Two days later, a national radio broadcaster, Onda Cero, interview him about Asturix. In these days, he was also interviewed by the regional branch of Televisión Española. The presentation of Asturix SO’s second edition was also done in University of Oviedo, in the Computer Engineering school. In April, DistroWatch accepts Asturix in the its list of distributions, and was also reviewed.

In the same month, April 2010, Asturix was finalist of the Innovation Prize of Campus Party Europa, an event which was covered by the regional branch of Cadena Ser. The repercussion of Asturix 2 went even further when many Spanish linux specialty media was interested by Asturix: Linux +, Revista Linux  and Todo Linux. Despite all this support, there were groups of people, mainly in Asturias, that said that Asturix 2 was only a “remastersys copy” of Ubuntu, and that it didn’t deserve all this promotion.

The third edition of Asturix was released in December 2010. Many things changed in this edition: there were only two version, instead of three: the main version (named SO) and the low resources version (called Lite). The main improvements were the addition of face recognition in the login, the use of web apps (with its own app Asturix Bridge) and Asturix’s own apps, and some SO modifications. When this edition was released, there was a big repercussion. As a result, DistroWatch made a brief review. A days later, in the 7 days ranking of DistroWatch, that shows the impact of one distribution in a short period of time, Asturix went to the 6 position. In this time, Asturix was presented in Madrid and Langreo (Asturias). In 2011, Asturix set up an official association, that was presented later (covered by La Nueva España). In July, due to its popularity in Spain, Asturix was invited to Campus Party Spain, so some members of the Dev Team were selected to go. Jon "maddog" Hall was interested about the project, and a month later he wrote about it in his monthly column of Linux Magazine. He even ceded to Asturix the last ten minutes of his lecture, in which Luis Ivan (Asturix creator) presented Asturix On, a web based desktop environment.

In the end of 2011, Luis Iván, as the creator of Asturix On, won HackNow contest of HackFwd, for the best under-18 programmer. 20 minutos, the 3rd most read newspaper in Spain, based on EGM (Estudio General de Medios: 'General Media Study'), interviewed Luis Iván about this prize some days later. RTPA did the same. About a month later, Asturix is nominated to Campus Party Milenio innovation awards. In November 2011, Asturix organized its first event, Youth and Free Culture with Open Source Software, sponsored by CENATIC (a governmental organization) and which was covered by La Nueva España and endorsed by Creative Commons Spain.

In January 2012 was released the forth edition of Asturix. It features Asturix On and maintained the Asturix's own apps that were in the last edition. Due to the addition of Asturix On, this edition had more repercussion that the older ones. DistroWatch made another review, and the editor, Jesse Smith, described it as "mixed bag". Again, the 6 position in "7 day list" in DW was achieved. It was announced by lots of blogs, with some English-speaking ones, like Hectic Geek; but the most Spanish-talking blogs talk about Asturix, like Genbeta. Asturix has also featured TVE (two times).

Currently, the development of the SO is stopped, due to lack of time of its creator, Luis Iván Cuende; and the inactivity of its Dev Team.

Asturix Incubator
After the Youth and Free Culture event, it was thought of creating a start-up incubator. That was eventually made in early 2012, with the presentation of Asturix Incubator. Nowadays, Asturix project is focused on the Incubator, in spite of the SO.

Asturix People
Asturix People (accessible in this Wayback machine backup) was a secundary project, now discontinued. It was started in 2011. It is a voting software, to be used on web. It was created when 15M movement started. It was designed as a direct democracy platform.

Refences
Category:Linux Category:Linux distributions Category:Ubuntu (operating system) derivatives