Ubuntu as a family

conor ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Tue May 23 01:23:55 UTC 2006


Carroll Grigsby Wrote: 
> A few weeks ago, there was some speculation in the trade press that
> Google was 

> going to bring out its own Linux distribution based on ubuntu, and at
> least 

> one writer said that it would be named goobuntu.

> -- cmg



I have read that that is a corporate-internal distro, and therfore will
never see the light of day outside of Google's offices.  



Pupeno Wrote: 
> 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.



Nice plan.  I do not see each different 'edition' of ubuntu as seperate
distros because they are so easily interchanged with a simple 'apt-get
install *ubuntu-desktop".


-- 
conor




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