About the Xubuntu Name

The "X" in Xubuntu stands for the Xfce graphical desktop environment, but the word "ubuntu" represents both the technical and philosophical core of the operating system. "Ubuntu" is a South African ethical ideology focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word comes from the Zulu and Xhosa languages. Ubuntu (pronounced "oo-BOON-too") is seen as a traditional African concept, is regarded as one of the founding principles of the new republic of South Africa and is connected to the idea of an African Renaissance.

A rough translation of the principle of ubuntu is "humanity towards others". Another translation could be: "the belief in a universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity."

 

"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."

 
  --Başpiskopos Desmond Tutu

Linux tabanlı bir dağıtım olan Ubuntu ailesinin bir üyesi olarak, Xubuntu işletim sistemi yazılım dünyasına ubuntu ruhunu getirir.