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mathlete Wrote:
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> LOL I'm South African and wrote L2 the vignette
> made me laugh. Ubuntu is the name of a great Linux
> distro that was developed thanks to a South
> African Entrepreneur named Mark Shuttleworth who
> started a company called verisign and bought
> himself a ticket to the ISS with the Russians
> making him the first African in space.
>
> The term Ubuntu is a Zulu (which is native South
> African language) word that directly translated
> means "the people" Shuttleworth wanted his OS to
> be for "the people" i.e. freely accessible to
> anyone.


nice one