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  2. Ubuntu philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Ubuntu (Zulu pronunciation: [ùɓúntʼù]) [1] (meaning humanity in some Bantu languages, such as Zulu) describes a set of closely related Bantu African-origin value systems that emphasize the interconnectedness of individuals with their surrounding societal and physical worlds.

  3. Ubuntu theology - Wikipedia

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    Ubuntu theology is a Southern African Christian perception of the African Ubuntu philosophy which recognizes the humanity of a person through a person's relationship with other persons. [1] It is best known through the writings of the Anglican archbishop Desmond Tutu , who, drawing from his Christian faith, theologized Ubuntu by a model of ...

  4. English words of African origin - Wikipedia

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    tilapia – possibly a Latinization of "tlhapi", the Tswana word for "fish" [14] tsetse – from a Bantu language (Tswana tsetse, Luhya tsiisi) ubuntu – Nguni term for "mankind, humanity", in South Africa since the 1980s also used capitalized, Ubuntu, as the name of a philosophy or ideology of "human kindness" or "humanism" uhuru – from ...

  5. Ubuntu - Wikipedia

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    Ubuntu (/ ʊ ˈ b ʊ n t uː / ⓘ uu-BUUN-too) [8] is a Linux distribution derived from Debian and composed mostly of free and open-source software. [9] [10] [11] Ubuntu is officially released in multiple editions: Desktop, [12] Server, [13] and Core [14] for Internet of things devices [15] and robots.

  6. History of free and open-source software - Wikipedia

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    Over the next week, Raymond and others worked on spreading the word. Linus Torvalds gave an all-important sanction the following day. Phil Hughes offered a pulpit in Linux Journal. Richard Stallman, pioneer of the free software movement, flirted with adopting the term, but changed his mind. [42]

  7. List of computer term etymologies - Wikipedia

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    zip – a file format, also used as a verb to mean compress. The file format was created by Phil Katz, and given the name by his friend Robert Mahoney. The compression tool Phil Katz created was named PKZIP. Zip means "speed", and they wanted to imply their product would be faster than ARC and other compression formats of the time.

  8. File Explorer - Wikipedia

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    While "Windows Explorer" or "File Explorer" is a term most commonly used to describe the file management aspect of the operating system, the Explorer process also houses the operating system's search functionality and File Type associations (based on filename extensions), and is responsible for displaying the desktop icons, the Start Menu, the ...

  9. Comparison of file managers - Wikipedia

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    Note that many of these protocols might be supported, in part or in whole, by software layers below the file manager, rather than by the file manager itself; for example, the macOS Finder doesn't implement those protocols, and the Windows Explorer doesn't implement most of them, they just make ordinary file system calls to access remote files ...