The original article introduced Ututo as an Argentine project with a social approach to technology. It described software and applications intended to spread knowledge and reduce the digital divide, particularly in developing countries.
The operating-system distribution, known in the account as UTUTO XS, was the best-known part of a wider group of initiatives.
The early live-CD idea
The source credited Diego Saravia of Argentina's National University of Salta with the first version in 2000. It described a GNU/Linux system that could run from a live CD without first being installed on a hard disk.
That made trying the system more approachable, although running from the disc could be slower than a conventional installation. The article placed Ututo among the early distributions exploring this form of access.
Later branches
The account then described UTUTO-R, created by Marcos Zapata in 2002 with networks in mind, and mentioned deployments in schools in Buenos Aires.
It linked the development of UTUTO-e in 2004 with the project that later used the UTUTO XS name. These names and dates are presented as the history described by the source, rather than a catalogue of currently maintained downloads.
Freedom and community
The original article associated Ututo with the Free Software Foundation and discussed a recommendation made by Richard Stallman during a visit to Argentina. That statement records the position reported at the time.
Its broader point was that a distribution could be built through contributions from many people. Users, programmers and other participants could improve a common project instead of treating the system solely as a finished commercial product.
More than a technical decision
The author concluded that free software involved people and collaboration as much as technical features. The article celebrated participation, the exchange of ideas and the possibility of making useful tools more widely available.
This is an archive account, not a claim that a particular Ututo edition is the right download for a current computer. For eD2K and Kad on a Linux system, start with the aMule guide and use an appropriate maintained package source.