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What’s in a Name?

The terminology of using ???Linux??? to describe an operating system is fast going out of vogue, and that GNU/Linux is so obscure as to be almost unrecognizable. The millions of people who are buying Android devices have no idea that they are running Linux at the core, and there may soon come a day when Ubuntu is separated from it’s Linux parentage as well. When that happens, will developers start writing ???Ubuntu apps???, rather than Linux programs? Will there be a fork between Fedora, Ubuntu, and Mageia?

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