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Was it sampled from a song? Was it created as original content for the operating system?

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The sound is composed by Nathaniel McCallum, according to the copyright file included in its package. Most likely, it is original content.

$ head -n 6 /usr/share/doc/ubuntu-sounds/copyright
This is Ubuntu's GNOME audio theme.

Copyright (C) 2004 Canonical Ltd. <http://www.canonical.com>
Sounds composed and recorded by Nathaniel McCallum <npmccallum@canonical.com>

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.

For users who are unaware, the "system ready" drum roll refers to the sound played when the user has reached the login screen. The sound length is 1 second.

The sound is available as system-ready.ogg file that is included in the ubuntu-sounds package, or can be found at full path on your system as below.

/usr/share/sounds/ubuntu/stereo/system-ready.ogg

The package is installed by default in Ubuntu releases only.

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