Ubuntu as a family

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Daniel Robitaille Wrote: 
> On 5/21/06, Chanchao <custom (AT) freenet (DOT) de> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 18:06 +0000, Pupeno wrote:
> >
> > > 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 think "No."  :)
> >
> > Ubuntu is Ubuntu.  Everything else is there because there was a
> demand
> > for it.  It would have made far more sense to call stuff Ubuntu-KDE
> or
> > "Ubuntu Classroom Edition" or Ubuntu-Light and so on, but because the
> > KDE desktop environment was the first spin-off AND because KDE people
> > seem to kname keverything kin kthe kworld kwith ka kk kin kfront,
> kthey
> > kobviously kopted kfor Kubuntu.
> 
> the one difference between Kubuntu and the other spin-offs is that at
> least the word kubuntu means something which is somewhat similar to
> the word "ubuntu":
> 
> 'Kubuntu means "towards humanity" in Bemba'
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kubuntu)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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I didn't know of that Kubuntu translation. That is really nice! Thanks.


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