Is Ubuntu the new Linux?
Posted by Jorge Bernal August 15, 2008
I’ve found this today at the shoes website, and I think it’s not the first time I see someone using the Ubuntu logo or name to refer to a Linux system.
If rms already had a bad time trying to convince people to use GNU/Linux instead of Linux, it seems he is getting more work to do 
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Well, it should be. Or more likely Kubuntu when Intrepid comes out
An infinite number of distros that are basically the same, just having another name/logo = duplication of effort, come on, wtf?!
Go (K)Ubuntu!
But Tux is so much cuter than the Circle of Friends! I will continue to wear penguin earrings and a Tux T shirt.
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Ubuntu is making other distros cry :\
Just like using the IE icon to refer to the Internet
@Mackenzie: Tux may be cuter, but it doesn’t mean it makes a good logo. Good logos = simple designs most of the time. (KISS rule has a great value when it comes to logo designs; the more easier to remember&draw by non artist, the better; also tux = a penguin, which hardly have individualism from one to another ~ all the same, but lot of duplicated effort xD )
I had a similar experience IRL a good many years ago. I saw a sign that said something like “Requires Windows 2000 or later, or Linux 8.1 or later” — obviously a result of Red Hat’s dominant position (at the time).
RE: RMS — While he is technically correct in saying that it is a GNU+Linux Operating System. Ubuntu is much more than a Linux kernel and GNU tools, which technically just gives you a text mode interface. RMS is *NOT* a marketing guy. Linux is easy to say, GNU is not. GNU is an amusing acronym but it is not marketing friendly like the word “Ubuntu”. If we went by RMS’ speak we should be saying, “Ubuntu, a GNU+Linux+Xorg+OpenOffice dot org+Mozilla operating system” and that is never going to happen.
[...] Reflejo del fuerte impulso de Ubuntu lo encontramos en una página shoooes.net que coloca el simbolo de Ubuntu en el lugar de Linux. Fuente. [...]
And on http://shoooes.net/downloads/ they even use the Ubuntu logo for “(Linux, BSD)” – ouch. That makes me wonder whether the toolkit actually works on any Linux besides Ubuntu, or on BSD at all
@DreadKnight: how often have you already drawn the Vista/MacOSX/Ubuntu/Tux logo?
I tried to subscribe to your feed but it didn’t show up on my homepage at yahoo.com. Is it working correctly?
I see it correctly at http://feeds.feedburner.com/Koke
Interesting point of view. I’ll consider changing my mind about this but for now I still don’t see things the same way you do.