the concept of ubuntu

so the hot linux distribution this year seems to be ubuntu, a variant of debian linux.

but etymology of the word ubuntu is fascinating and profound. it’s a word from the bantu languages of south africa that describes the interconnectedness and co-dependent origination of our sense of humanness from society.

Archbishop Desmond Tutu attempted this description in 1999:

A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.

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