Ubuntu as a family

[Joshua Saunders]

On Saturday 20 May 2006 19:06, Pupeno wrote:
you forgot nUbuntu

> Hello,
> Ubuntu is already a family of distributions, there's Kubuntu, Xubuntu,
> Edubuntu and well... Ubuntu.
> I think that is a bit confusing.
> I use Kubuntu and when I do something that is Kubuntu specific I mention
> Kubuntu, but when I do something that is breader I mention Ubuntu... but
> that might be mistaken as the Ubuntu distro instead of family.
> I know the original goal of Ubuntu was to be only one distro, but others
> have appeared and some have been embraced and now it is a family and I
> believe the concept of family works very well. Because each one is
> particular, yet the 90% that is the same is still the same, sharing the
> load.
> I would propose then to use "Ubuntu" as the name of the family and change
> the name of the Gnome distro to "Gubuntu"[1]. What do you guys think ? I
> hope not to start a flamewar, that's not my goal. My goal is to publish
> this idea so it might reach the people that might be interested on it (I
> haven't seen a clear feedback path, I don't even know who might be the
> right person anyway).
> Thank you.