Ubuntu as a family

[Pupeno]

On Monday, 22 de May de 2006 03:40, Chanchao 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.
>
> Then everyone and their dog started calling their spin-offs *ubuntu.
>
> I think it was a mistake to make it sound like all the alternatives are
> separate distros with their own name and logo.  They're just Ubuntu with
> slightly different packages selected as default, which makes for an
> easier download/install I suppose.  Also these projects make sure
> there's attention wihtin Ubuntu for KDE support, for Classroom/thin
> client use, and all those.  So they're definitely not without merit.
>
> However, if I were to start my own distro because I don't like Firefox
> and want Epiphany by default and called my distro Epibuntu and made a
> logo and a forum and all that, then chances are people would think me a
> couple of cherries short of a pie, and they'd be right.

Still my point is valid, but the naming change would be bigger:

Ubuntu (family) -> Ubuntu
Ubuntu (distro) -> Ubuntu Gnome Edition
Kubuntu -> Ubuntu KDE Edition
etc;

In fact, I like that scheme better... we would all be using Ubuntu; just 
different editions.

-- 
Pupeno <pupeno at pupeno.com> (http://pupeno.com)
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