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I wonder what the real difference between these two services, made for Ubuntu.

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Ask Ubuntu (this website) is a member of the StackExchange network. Although it has the support of the Ubuntu community, it is not affiliated with Canonical Ltd. This site is designed to make it easy to get answers to specific questions about using Ubuntu. This site was launched in July of 2010.

The Ubuntu forums on the other hand are officially run by Canonical Ltd. and have a slightly broader scope than this site. Questions there are structured more around discussion rather than the question / answer format that Ask Ubuntu uses. The Ubuntu forums have been around since 2004.

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  • For me it was a surprise, thought to be linked to askubuntu Canonical, then beyond the forum, I can also say that the wiki pages (help) Ubuntu and Canonical are linked, officially?
    – rjbgbo
    Commented May 7, 2011 at 16:15
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    @rjbgbo A slight more specific explanation from the Ubuntu Open Week (Starting at 15:22)
    – Marco Ceppi Mod
    Commented May 8, 2011 at 0:37
  • Ubuntu forums are not officially run by Canonicalt Ltd, but Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd, you can see it the bottom page of UF.
    – sugab
    Commented Jun 5, 2015 at 23:50
  • @bagustris: that's the company that produced the forum software that they are running.
    – Nathan Osman
    Commented Jun 5, 2015 at 23:58
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Besides all the neat editing and voting features (or maybe because of them) askubuntu.com gets a lot more attention from developers.

And in general, the competitive nature of building points seems to encourage more participation.

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Ubuntu is a computer operating system based on the Debian Linux distribution and distributed as free and open source software. It is named after the Southern African philosophy of Ubuntu ("humanity towards others"). (copied from wikipedia/Ubuntu 2011-05-09 18:46 UTC)

Ubuntu is designed primarily for desktop use, although netbook and server editions exist as well. Web statistics suggest that Ubuntu's share of Linux desktop usage is about 50%, and indicate upward-trending usage as a web server. Ubuntu holds an estimated global usage of more than 12 million users. (copied from wikipedia/Ubuntu 2011-05-09 18:46 UTC)

Ask Ubuntu is a community driven Question and Answer website for the Ubuntu Linux operating system. It is part of the Stack Exchange Network, running the same software as Stack Overflow. Ask Ubuntu started life as a "Proposed Q&A site for ubuntu users and developers" on Stack Exchange. With other internet users supporting the proposal through "commitment" Stack Exchange chose to launch the site in a beta form. (copied from wikipedia/Ask_Ubuntu 2011-05-09 18:46 UTC)

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    about the Stack Exchange Network, also noticed that there is a similar medium in the case of Debian
    – rjbgbo
    Commented May 7, 2011 at 16:16
  • This seems to answer only a half of question. That would be AskUbuntu vs. UbuntuForums. The question requires a comparison between them, IMHO.
    – Cristiana Nicolae
    Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 19:28

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