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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. 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.

  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 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 ...

  6. Talk:Kubuntu - Wikipedia

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    Coincidently it also means free (as in beer) in Kirundi, spoken in Burundi. Kubuntu is pronounced "koo-boon-too"." "What does Ubuntu mean? Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world."

  7. 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.

  8. History of Unix - Wikipedia

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    This means programs do not have to write code to explicitly read and write data from files into memory to manipulate it, the operating system does this all invisibly. [ 4 ] The Multics project began to bog down, and it became clear to the Bell team that the system was unlikely to deliver a working operating system in the near term, let alone a ...

  9. Etymology - Wikipedia

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    Etymology (/ ˌ ɛ t ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i /, ET-im-OL-ə-jee [1]) is the study of the origin and evolution of words—including their constituent units of sound and meaning—across time. [2] In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics, etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. [1]