<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Canonical started moving away from using "Linux" in its official branding around the 10.* releases.</div><div><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On May 15, 2012, at 3:42 PM, Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hmm. Maybe if they wrote their own from scratch. The kernel is what makes it "Linux". Dropping the word "Linux" from the kernel makes it sound like Cannonical has produced the kernel all on their own. Kind of snake-oil sales in my view.<br>
<br>RedHat calls theirs "RedHat Enterprise Linux kernel". They pay a lot of people to write kernel code that a very many people are happy with. <br><br>But Cannonical has always appeared to me to be rather pompous and bombastic. <br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Matthew <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simontek@gmail.com" target="_blank">simontek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Well, if they modified it to be their own, go a head.<br>
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On 5/15/12, Rich Faulkner <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@tux86.org">rfaulkner@tux86.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Did anyone catch that Canonical is now referring to the Linux kernel as<br>
> the "Ubuntu" kernel in 12.04?<br>
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> RinL<br>
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