-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Robin Menneer wrote: > On 3/23/07, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: >>> Personally, I'd keep Tux and drop the GNU. The GNU foundation are an >>> excellent organisation and have a very important part to play in >>> developing F/OSS software and the environment around it, however in >>> the same way the the Six Nations is referred to as a Rugby Tournament >>> and not a Rugby Football Tournament, I think that we should refer to >>> Linux either by distro name or by the simple word "Linux". >>> > Could the penguin (no outsiders kinow what Tux is) be inserted into > the first or middle U in Ubuntu and the whole name Ubuntu be > underlined with the word LINUX printed small and thoroughly flattened > so it looks like an underline. We then have both our penny and the > bun. GNU should not be paraded to the general public - it's Flanders > & Swannish. >
For whatever reason Ubuntu decided to drop the word "linux" from their brand name in 2005 or so. The website for example used to be "ubuntulinux.com". Dean -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGA7u5eedO8dcp9nYRAp+/AJ46WugJImlRc9W3LB9UVqULtDJTyACfRkmZ RysTvOUjPHJGQOaoMhhmthg= =goGX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
