Linux User or Ubuntu User?

[jfloydb]

Does using Ubuntu really make me a Linux user? Does using Mac OS X make someone a Unix user? All symantics aside, what do you think? (Let's keep things friendly, please)

[Eisenwinter]

As long as you use an operating system with the Linux kernel, then you're a Linux user.

[Vadi]

Yeah I'd say it does. Redefines the image of the Linux user for the better.

[Tibuda]

Linux User or Ubuntu User?
What about Linux user AND Ubuntu user.

[Sublime Porte]

Does using Ubuntu really make me a Linux user? Does using Mac OS X make someone a Unix user? All symantics aside, what do you think? (Let's keep things friendly, please)

Or does using Windows XP make one a Windows user or a Windows XP user?

Comparing Ubuntu to Linux, and OSX to Unix is a pretty bad comparison. OSX is a completely un-Unix style of system, built on top of a Unix base (in fact the Mach kernel isn't even the original Unix kernel anyway, it was a different project). Whilst Ubuntu is just a nicely packaged up Linux distro. Ubuntu is pretty much the same as any other Linux distro, OSX is nothing like any other Unix derivative.

[Skripka]

As long as you use an operating system with the Linux kernel, then you're a Linux user.

All rectangles are squares, but not all squares are rectangles....or however you say it.