[Ubuntu_Tamil] About the word Ubuntu and progress on Ubuntu Desktop Guide's remake..

[ம.ராமதாஸ்]

Vanakkam,

As conveyed earlier I am in process of re-writing/ translating Ubuntu
Desktop Guide in Tamil and hence started reading the English version of
Ubuntu Desktop Guide.

and found the pronounciation and Ubuntu's meaning in this.

Ubuntu is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's allegiances
and relations with each other. The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa
languages. Ubuntu (pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is seen as a traditional
African concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of the new
republic of South Africa and is connected to the idea of an African
Renaissance.

A rough translation of the principle of Ubuntu is "humanity towards others".
Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing
that connects all humanity".


"A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others,
does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a
proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a
greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished,
when others are tortured or oppressed."
    --Archbishop Desmond Tutu

As a platform based on GNU/Linux, the Ubuntu operating system brings the
spirit of ubuntu to the software world.
I plan to read this completely by end of this month and plan to re-write/
translate this book in the month of November in Tamil.

Vazhthukkal.





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