Canonical has asked for nUbuntu to cease development in an email nUbuntu received from Canonical Ltd. Canonical Ltd stated that nUbuntu must cease development as the ideas behind nUbuntu are giving Canonical & Ubuntu a bad name. The author of nUbuntu Tom Bell has stepped forward to fully comply with the Canonical Ltd notification by pulling down his website as of 12:00pm on Saturday 1st April 2006. The nUbuntu author intends to develop a new distribution that people will find just as good as nUbuntu.
nUbuntu was originally founded by David W and the distribution was developed by a 20 year old college student Tom Bell. Tom first became interested in Linux and computers about 4 or 5 years ago trying many Linux distributions working out what makes each one different including the inner workings. Tom started the nUbuntu distribution as a learning experience with his friend taking pride in the look and functioning of his project focusing on the development of a quality distribution. The main goal of the nUbuntu distribution was to create a distribution derived from the Ubuntu distribution, and add packages related to security testing, and remove unneeded packages, such as Gnome, Openoffice.org, and Evolution. nUbuntu was a distribution for the learning experience. Many people ask, "What makes it better than X?", or "Why should I use this over Y". nUbuntu's answer to this question was that they don't have think about whether people are using it or not. nUbuntu was more concerned about the learning process. If the users wanted to try something with a clean interface, fast, and an excellent range of programs, nUbuntu was the answer. The packages included in the nUbuntu distribution can be accessed at: http://www.nubuntu.org/installed.txt. The nUbuntu distribution website is located at http://www.nubuntu.org and clearly indicates that Ubuntu Logo and Ubuntu are trademarks of Canonical Ltd. Keeping in view the spirit of Free and Open Source Software, the authors' decision to remove the nUbuntu website and restart the project under a new title is appreciated by the community. Furthermore, Canonical Ltd. is encouraged to support this innovative and creative activity by including the nUbuntu teams to further develop and improve the nUbuntu distribution. Regards ----------------------- Fouad Riaz Bajwa General Secretary - FOSS Advocate FOSSFP: Free & Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan R Secretariat FOSS Resource Centre - FOSSRC 5-A, 1st Floor, 32-M, Manzoor Plaza Civic Centre, Model Town Extension Lahore-54700, Pakistan Cell: 92-333-4661290 Tel: 92-42-8496645 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: www.fossfp.org ; www.ubuntu-pk.org Disclaimer: This e-mail message is intended for its recipient only. If you have received this e-mail in error, please discard it. The author of this e- mail or FOSSFP: Free and Open Source Software Foundation of Pakistan (R) takes no responsibility for the material, implicit or explicit. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
