[ale] Speaking of Ubuntu

[Justin Goldberg]

Its not the Ubuntu kernel, its the Ubuntu/GNU/Linux kernel. Lol.

On 5/15/12, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm. Maybe if they wrote their own from scratch. The kernel is what makes
> it "Linux". Dropping the word "Linux" from the kernel makes it sound like
> Cannonical has produced the kernel all on their own. Kind of snake-oil
> sales in my view.
>
> RedHat calls theirs "RedHat Enterprise Linux kernel".  They pay a lot of
> people to write kernel code that a very many people are happy with.
>
> But Cannonical has always appeared to me to be rather pompous and
> bombastic.
>
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, if they modified it to be their own, go a head.
>>
>> On 5/15/12, Rich Faulkner <rfaulkner at tux86.org> wrote:
>> > Did anyone catch that Canonical is now referring to the Linux kernel as
>> > the "Ubuntu" kernel in 12.04?
>> >
>> > RinL
>> >
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