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RE: Let's talk about culture #1 - Ubuntu
Well @politics-trail, I don't understand the interaction between socialism and ubuntu, to be honest :-) The whole linux operation system and its clones are based on "ubuntu" in the actual meaning of the word - or, in other words: open source. I doubt that any of the founders of the idea do have any socialist ideas, even if they belong to the left, which by far not all of them do.
Which makes ubuntu and its forks "ubuntu" in my eyes it the fact that they enable less techcnically interested people to take part in the blessings of a fantastic and secure OS. Am I wrong?
Thanks for bringing up that topic!!
Perhaps you've been conditioned to shy away from anything of 'the left'. Certainly it is not a capitalistic idea to share freely the resources of the commons.
Perhaps! Or maybe even the opposite ... Maybe it even hasn't got anything to do with left, right, middle or whatever categories people tend to use to categorize phenomena of the world?
Yes, I agree that these words lose meaning out of context.
To be honest I only used Windows and Ubuntu so far. I also heard about many other linux systems being free, irritated me a little. And yes Ubuntu is very easy to understand only thing is that it has the "close window" x-button on the wrong side ;).
Thanks for the clarificaton, buddy! I thought there must be more to the OS. Ubuntu itself means much more than I managed to tell, but I only know about the movement since very recently.
Thanks for your answer! All linux-kernel-based OS on GPL are open source - which is not the same as "free" in this context. But nearly all of them are free also. There are a lot of very nice and useful alternatives to Ubuntu out there, but I better do not start some Linux-Flame-War here ... I am an absolute computer idiot, but I have been using Linux distributions for 10 years now without any problems. I couldn't live without it! But if you are happy with Windows - why not? Never change a running system - wasn't it like that?
well, to be honest the last good Windows was Win98...