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Libervis: Ubuntu: Derivative or Fork?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 25, 2005

[ Thanks to Danijel
Orsolic
for this link. ]

“Ubuntu is a beautiful word in one african language. It means
something close to ‘connected humanity’ or more exactly ‘the
interdependent human community.’

“With this name, the Ubuntu Linux Distribution, created by
Canonical, the company of Mark Shuttleworth, the deep-space
zillionaire from South Africa, has managed to take over the
Distrowatch Billboard of GNU/Linux distributions and remain as the
number one distribution for more than 6 months…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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