Ubuntu is Linux: Really?
I happened upon a post over at Penguin Pete’s entitled Ubuntu is Not Linux: Pass it On!, and found myself nodding the entire time. Ubuntu is not Linux.
Let me be clear. In a certain sense, Ubuntu clearly is Linux. Namely, it runs on a Linux kernel. It’s even legitimately referred to as GNU/Linux, because it includes many of the GNU tools by default. To say that Ubuntu is not Linux in this technical sense is pure silliness.
However, while GNU/Linux in the technical sense is simply the Linux kernel with the GNU tools running on top of it, what is Linux in its essential sense? Essentially, Linux is a free replacement for Unix. When I heard about Linux, I was interested in a free version of Windows, like a lot of people were, but as I learned I became aware that the Unix paradigm is endlessly superior to Windows and I decided that that’s what I wanted. This was long before Ubuntu was even a twinkle in Shuttleworth’s eye, you understand, so I got a good dose of Unix shortly after finishing my installation, but you get my point. Linux is designed to be a Unix-like operating system licensed under the GPL.
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