Ubuntu Philosophy 101

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 1:17 am

I thought this was pretty interesting - (I had of course read the usual quick blurbs about the meaning of "Ubuntu" - didn't realize it was this relevant in contemporary African life) - http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/7-22-2006-103206.asp

1) After thinking of "Ubuntu" as a distro for so long, it's kind of strange to read about it solving all the world's conflicts..........or could it? Hmmm, now that you mention it... Osama's a wealthy man, if we could switch out his iMac with a more reasonable Ubuntu desktop....and Bush (gotta be a no-nonsense Windows man).. damn!, think of all the heartache we could've avoided.

2) If Mark Shuttleworth had chosen a Zulu term vice a Bantu term, we'd all be talking about the next release of Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu. I don't know,I kind of like saying that...excuse me while I walk around the house for awhile....Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu, Umuntu Ngumuntu Ngabantu, Umuntu......

Gomer_X · Post by **Gomer_X** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 6:49 am

I think it's quite posible that the concept that we all depend on and need each other might have existed a few years before Ubuntu.

So far it hasn't stopped people from hurting each other on a regular basis.

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:59 pm

True Gomer_x, also Ubuntu would not be the first distro whose name carries spiritual conotations - Good Old Slackware (according to reliable sources), is named of course after The Church of the Subgenius' central tenet of "Slack" - hence the pipe of "frop" that Tux smokes - in the manner of the pipe smoking head of Bob Dobbs.

snarkout · Post by **snarkout** » Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:45 pm

Or Arch naming it's last release "Noodle."

johnnywtllts · Post by **johnnywtllts** » Thu Sep 21, 2006 5:55 am

Great point Snarkout, that's an easy one to overlook. There's also of course the persistent internet rumor that DSL is just a clever reverse acronym for LSD.

Which brings up the fact that I've always had a problem with the story that Tux came to Linus in a dream after a "bad fish dinner".