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Three Chapters in. While its pretty cool to hear about the history, im still waiting on the connection with Debian. (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

This is clearly humor, but for anyone wondering what the actual connection is, it's that Mark Shuttleworth, the billionaire founder and CEO of Canonical (the company that maintains Ubuntu), is from South Africa. He liked the word, and decided to name his new Debian fork after it.