IMAGINE YOU'RE HEAD OF IT at a large company. You're standing in front of the board explaining why you want to switch from Windows to Linux. You have all the technical benefits and cost savings up on the screen. Everything's going swimmingly until you let slip that you want this bunch of middle-aged fogeys in sober suits to bet the farm on something called Gutsy Gibbon.
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"Gutsy Gibbon" would either never
"Gutsy Gibbon" would either never be used in the board room or it would be prefixed with "Ubuntu 7.10, code-named...". Ubuntu is a fantastic name when you consider its meaning. And it's quickly coming into common use in the English language: the Boston Celtics use it as a chant; political leaders are using it when referring to the notion of peace, sharing, collaboration and love; and it also happens to be the name of an operating system distribution which is probably being adopted faster than any other distribution in history (I exclude Windows distributions here because very few people actually choose to adopt Windows... it is chosen for them by OEMs, retailers and know-nothing, fud-fed CIOs).