Talk:Ubuntu

Is this marketing, or a folk etymology? --Connel MacKenzie 18:56, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
 * a Zulu word, literally meaning “humanness.” Ubuntu is a social and spiritual philosophy serving as a framework for African society. Its essential meaning can be conveyed using the Zulu maxim “umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu”—meaning, in essence, “a person is a person through other persons.” The practice of ubuntu is fundamentally inclusive, involving respect and concern for one's family and one's neighbors. It also implies respect for one's ancestors, in a deeper spiritual sense


 * It is lowercase ubuntu - see ubuntu (ideology) SemperBlotto 19:00, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

The proper noun 'Ubuntu' is a Linux type OS. Was this correct definition deleted?  Disambiguate from 'ubuntu', an Xhosa common noun for 'human respect'.  This page should at least indicate the problem with the deleted page, to avoid recidivism. From the history, the proper noun might have been misdefined, or might have been considered more apropriate in Wikipedia, but either way, since "Ubuntu" is an English proper noun (maybe more apropriate in this Englis section than the foreign common noun, looking up "Ubuntu" in Wiktionary should at least show a link to the Wikipedia entry. --Wikidity 00:39, 25 October 2011 (UTC)