Ubuntu as a family

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 5/21/06, Chanchao <custom at freenet.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)




-- 
Daniel Robitaille