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Old 12-02-2013, 12:14 AM
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Originally Posted by kien View Post
I use UBUNTU all the time at work and at home. It's a great OS.
I love the meaning behind the word ubuntu.
if everyone would be nice to each other tomorrow morning, we will be living in the much better world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29


Ubuntu (/uːˈbʊntuː/ oo-BUUN-too; Zulu/Xhosa pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼú]) is a Nguni Bantu term (literally, "human-ness"") roughly translating to "human kindness"; in Southern Africa (South Africa and Zimbabwe), it has come to be used as a term for a kind of humanist philosophy, ethic or ideology, also known as Ubuntuism or Hunhuism (the latter after the corresponding Shona term) propagated in the Africanization (transition to majority rule) process of these countries during the 1980s and 1990s.

Since the transition to democracy in South Africa with the Nelson Mandela presidency in 1994, the term has become more widely known outside of Southern Africa, notably popularized to English language readers by Desmond Tutu (1999).

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