Has there ever been a unix version of ubuntu?

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I.e. not being built "on a one-person project" (linux).

The "whole Linus Torvalds worship" for me really ruins what ubuntu should be about, collaboration, not "idealizing one person above everyone else".

I know the story "that Linus Torvalds chose a different name and someone else named it after him", but that's not the point of this post.

The point is has any ever tried to make a unix version of ubuntu to make something that is more close the meaning of the word ubuntu, which means "humanity" (thus all humans, not "one human more than all others"), thus a collaborative project such as unix would make more sense rather than a "one human project" that is linux.

What I have tried:

I have researched whether I could find anything about a "ubuntu unix version" but could not find any information.

Posted 5-Mar-24 4:43am

Maarten ten Velden

Updated 5-Mar-24 4:48am

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No, there was never a Unix version.

Posted 5-Mar-24 5:01am

Dave Kreskowiak

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Pete O'Hanlon 5-Mar-24 13:07pm

Succinct. I like it.

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Pete O'Hanlon · Accepted Answer · 2024-03-05T07:07:00

Solution 2

By its very nature, Ubuntu is a Linux distribution, in just the same way that Debian, Red Hat, CentOS, etc, are. And, while Linux started off as a one-person exercise, it's a lot more than that now. There's no way that Torvalds could maintain the vast codebase, and various distributions that Linux is now. I know that he has certain "opinions", but he doesn't hold sway over core Linux any more - no more than other contributors.

Posted 5-Mar-24 7:07am

Pete O'Hanlon

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Andre Oosthuizen 6-Mar-24 15:02pm

+5 Ditto

Maarten ten Velden 7-Mar-24 9:26am

Linux was written as an implementation of unix if I understand correct. Porting it to unix wouldn't be impossible hence. Some tools such as apt are not even linux specific. Apt is debian specific.

My question was not about "who currently holds ownership", it is about that the project has "Linus" on the banner because linux was named after Linus Torvalds + unix.