ANNOUNCING : Ebuntu , Enlightenment 0.17 + Ubuntu

[Chris Neary]

I can actually see that phrase being used to describe these many variants in
slang terminology. Well done for coining the phrase, Peter!

"Have you heard of (x)-buntu?"
"Oh, that's that new Foobuntu isn't it?"

Chris


On 06/06/06, Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 02:50:47 +0200
> Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za> wrote:
>
> > > Where will this madness end?
> >
> > As soon as someone realizes that there's so many derivatives that what
> > Ubuntu itself is gets lost. So to fix that we rename it to Gnubuntu.
> > But nobody can actually pronounce that so it gets contracted to
> > Gubuntu which conflicts with Google's version which should actually
> > be called Goobuntu....
> >
> > This is getting as bad as less/more/most and cat/dog :-)
>
> The *generic* distro  name, in the best UNIX tradition, should surely be
>
> Foobuntu
>
> ;-)
>
> Peter
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