Thoughts Decoded

Though my home system was a dual system, never did i try Linux on it. I always wondered, “Why the hell two OSs on my machine?”, but never attempted to find the answer to it(nor did the guys who installed them knew why they were doing it…) nor did i ever try starting the system under linux environment, as windows is considered to be most comfortable and user friendy than any other(we always ask for ease in life, dont we?)…

Cut the crap…

I got to work under Linux recently, as we had to run DataSpan(the project I had been working) on linux environment(thanks to our client, RiskSpan’s, requirements). Well, we had to work hard to get DataSpan run in an unknown environment. With the help from some of our colleagues, we could understand the file system and other basic usage here and there. After a lot research and search ultimately “Pappu Paas Ho Gaya!!”. We tried with some other version of Linux: UBUNTU, FEDORA, RED HAT….
“Surprise Surprise… Pappu Phirse Paas Ho Gaya”

Ubuntu sounded very wierd to me, so….”Google”. I got to know the closed philosophy behind this open source…..

UBUNTU by all means is humanity or fellow feeling or kindness. The concept of ubuntu is used to emphasize the need for unity or consensus in decision-making, as well as the need for a suitably humanitarian ethic to inform those decisions. A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. Those who uphold the principle of ubuntu throughout their lives will, in death, achieve a unity with those still living.

Here is what Nelson Mandela has to say about UBUNTU: “A traveller through our country would stop at a village, and he didn’t have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but Ubuntu has various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not enrich themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to improve? ”

The concept of ubuntu is illustrated in the film In My Country, about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, starring Samuel L. Jackson and Juliette Binoche.

UBUNTU, though, in software terms means: A predominantly desktop-oriented Linux distribution, based on Debian GNU/Linux but with a stronger focus on usability, regular releases, and ease of installation.

Ubuntu is sponsored by Canonical Ltd, owned by South African billionaire entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.

This “Ubuntu” distribution of the Linux computer operating system is inspired by the UBUNTU concept, arguing that it “brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world.”

Lets get the spirit of UBUNTU to our lives too……