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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......

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.

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.

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

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".