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Good article review
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- Result: Delisted.–--Retrohead (talk) 09:33, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
Lots of single sentences, poorly structured, although reasonably well referenced. Might be salvageable if somebody wants to take it on. Jamesx12345 13:43, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
- There hasn't been any significant progress, so I'm delisting it. The article really needs one person to bring it together to a coherent whole, as it is there is a lot of redundant information and a large number of single sentence paragraphs. Jamesx12345 15:09, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
New Ubuntu Logo, not yet updated
[edit]https://ubuntu.com/ https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/03/ubuntu-has-a-brand-new-logo
Not updating the logo yet, as neither the home page nor the brand guidelines have been updated. https://design.ubuntu.com/brand/ubuntu-logo/
Leaving this here for the moment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:ce:6f13:c400:92e:440b:1ad3:a84e (talk)
PIE and buffer overflow protection
[edit]These were relevant in 2010, but nowadays seem to be used pretty much everywhere? --Gert7 (talk · contribs) 23:37, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
Primacy of name is wrong
[edit]As the article states, the Etymology of Ubuntu software is derived from Ubuntu philosophy, which precedes it by 20 to 40 years. It is therefore counterintuitive that the software is given the primacy Ubuntu title, rather than the philosophy it is named after. Babakathy (talk) 17:55, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
"Ubufox" listed at Redirects for discussion
[edit]The redirect Ubufox has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2024 March 26 § Ubufox until a consensus is reached. StreetcarEnjoyer (talk) 03:04, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
Licensing Obfuscation
[edit]Under license theres a link to "Free software" which is a badly written article. It does not become clear to a layman that in general a modified Ubuntu cannot be freely distributed! The article here should clearly mention in a separare section that there are restrictions to be aware of. At the moment it reads like a Canonical marketing campaign. 2A02:1210:2E1A:500:506D:BAC0:41A0:AB97 (talk) 08:16, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
- Please see https://askubuntu.com/questions/219/under-what-license-is-ubuntu-can-it-be-legally-modified-and-distributed. I've added "except trademarks" to the infobox. Aaron Liu (talk) 13:30, 18 August 2024 (UTC)
Requested move 12 October 2024
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– No clear WP:Primary topic. Page views are 1561 for the computer system, 798 for the philosophy (Ubuntu (philosophy)). The philosophy also likely has more long term significance. Kowal2701 (talk) 22:21, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- Comment Could ALL the numerous previous discussions ate various venues be linked for convenience please? DuncanHill (talk) 23:14, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- They are listed under the talk headers. Aaron Liu (talk) 23:19, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- No, there were further discussions that aren't listed there, eg at Talk:Ubuntu/Archive_11#Link_away_from_disambiguation and Talk:Ubuntu/Archive_11#Return_to_disambiguation_page. It wouldn't surprise me if there were more. FWIW I would support the proposed move, but I am sick and tired of the mess. DuncanHill (talk) 23:35, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- They are listed under the talk headers. Aaron Liu (talk) 23:19, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose No evidence anything has changed since the previous move requests. * Pppery * it has begun... 23:27, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose: Being the first distro for accessible Linux has obvious significance, while I'm not sure what the significance with the ethics concept is (though I am in the Anglosphere indeed). Plus, the only other competent contenders for the PT have natural disambiguation already, and this gets overwhelmingly more pageviews than any other topic. Aaron Liu (talk) 23:27, 12 October 2024 (UTC)
- Oppose and move Ubuntu (philosophy) back to Ubuntu philosophy per WP:NATURAL, which the last move was contingent on. Nardog (talk) 00:24, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Ooh, I didn't notice that. How should we handle this clearly related move? Revert it and add it to the list of proposals made by @Kowal2701? Aaron Liu (talk) 01:00, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
- Support Nomination is sound. There are two prongs to determine a primary topic, usage and significance. We usually use pageviews for usage: here the operating system has an edge of 72% to 28%, which is solid (though falls to 66% to 34% since 2020). I like to use scholarly search results to measure significance, which should help avoid personal biases, and here the philosophy performs very strongly: it monopolizes the first pages of results for
ubuntu
on Google Scholar, ProQuest, and Jstor; the operating system does better on Google Books. I'd be interested to see other academic search engines tested. (As an aside, the philosophy isn't naturally called "ubuntu philosophy"; the parentheses make sense.) Hameltion (talk | contribs) 06:18, 13 October 2024 (UTC)
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