Ubuntu Changed My Life

This week I have been reflecting on some things. Two things that I couldn't get out of my mind were UNIX's "Do one thing, but do it well," and Ubuntu's "Humanity towards others". Based on the former's philosophy, I'd keep this short and concise.

The UNIX philosophy (also YAGNI and KISS) promotes usefulness without bloating. It makes me want to say and do as little as possible, but do it well.

Ubuntu's philosophy, on the other hand, is truly admirable. I can't argue with the fact that the FSF has a noble goal, but it has sort of become an organization out to boycott those who do not want to share (i.e. FSF's campaigns to boycott proprietary products). Ubuntu means "The belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity." (wiktionary.org). It promotes sharing unconditionally, with absolutely no strings attached. Humans are what we are, and humans are what we should be toward ourselves. I read in one of the Welcome to Ubuntu pages that "A person with Ubuntu feels down when others are down," and "A person with Ubuntu is open to other's ideas." I dream of a world when we all have Ubuntu in our hearts. Yes, some people may not want to share and maybe never will, but it's okay with me. We have our reasons why we do things, and I want to make mine "for the benefit of myself and my fellow humans."

Ubuntu is the greatest OS to me, mainly because I salute to it's philosophy. It has truly changed my life. :D

copied from my dA journal

nice story. I feel the same way. Its nice to know there is such a great community behind Ubuntu. To me thats what makes it so much better than other OS's

I can relate, the open source community has changed my points of view on several things, I was very surprised to find that the best and safest OS out there is free.

This goes completely against the idea that nothing good can be free, or socialized.That there can be no variety or innovation without profit driven competition.

ubuntu FTW

waspbr said:

This goes completely against the idea that nothing good can be free, or socialized.That there can be no variety or innovation without profit driven competition.

I have made the experience that whenever I show them my Ubuntu installation with all its goodies and explain to them that there are no viruses, that I trust all the software I have installed (unlike anything that comes from MS) and that it's completely free, the usual reaction is that of total disbelief. People are expecting some kind of catch or thinking that "free" may not mean what they take it to mean. When I tell them that they can just go on the internet and download it, they are completely amazed.

Idefix82 said: I have made the experience that whenever I show them my Ubuntu installation with all its goodies and explain to them that there are no viruses,

Be careful shh.. it's not advisable to say Ubuntu has no viruses around here lately :) Someone will come along and try to kill your joy. Anyway- Glad you like Ubuntu! Things like this make me glad I'm using an Open Source OS.

Well, asides from the OS's features, Ubuntu's philosophy really stands out among all other OS's.

"Humanity towards others"

i too fell in love with the philosophy. it rocked my world. peace, love, and rock on!

Too bad I can't convince my Windows-friends that.

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oh, I found a better meaning for ubuntu:

"I am what I am because of who we all are."

HungryMan said: It makes me want to say and do as little as possible, but do it well.

+1,000,000 to that. :)

HungryMan said:

I can't argue with the fact that the FSF has a noble goal, but it has sort of become an organization out to boycott those who do not want to share (i.e. FSF's campaigns to boycott proprietary products). Ubuntu means "The belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity." (wiktionary.org). It promotes sharing unconditionally, with absolutely no strings attached. Humans are what we are, and humans are what we should be toward ourselves.

Ubuntu is the greatest OS to me, mainly because I salute to it's philosophy. It has truly changed my life. :D

Very nice post. I never was one to "boycott" anything, so that campaign seems silly to me, but I think it's perfectly OK for us to share our FOSS without forcing everybody else to share freely as well.

Anyway...thanks for the wonderful post. :)

@jrock - welcome too. I'm glad that someone out there also believes what I think about FOSS. It's about choice. As I like to say about Linux, "You choose Linux, but Linux does not choose you."

Really nice Yes it is changed my life.. every day i will get a problem in ubuntu and i am doing experiment and searching to solve. latter i found that i started to learn more without knowing:lolflag: .. this is really great .. i tried lot of distros but i find ubuntu is good..

In some cases this philosophy can be strong.