[Discussion] "Ubunchu!" - The Official Manga from The Ubuntu Magazine Japan has now been fully translated into English (under an open license of course)

https://mangadex.org/title/a6bfedbc-9846-4a97-9fcb-77a426d978e6/ubunchu

cross-posted to: linuxmemes@lemmy.world

Here is the full series available to read on Mangadex (under a CC license), and direct link to Chapter 1 (of 16).

If you had never heard of this series before, Ubunchu! was published in the Official Ubuntu Magazine Japan periodically between the years of 2008-2013 (with some digital extras afterwards found in chapter 16 on mangadex). The series was released using a CC license and subsequent translations are also CC (plus the translators have directly communicated with the original author).

Praise open licenses

Chapters 1-8 were translated years ago, but the final chapter was only translated just a couple days ago.

Due to when it was written and published, it is a bit of a time capsule. You can relive some of the formative linux and Ubuntu events of the 21st century such as:

::: spoiler Unity Desktop
Unity is an alien
:::

::: spoiler The rise of linux mint
Linux Mint as a JK
:::

::: spoiler OpenOffice & LibreOffice
Battle lines are drawn in the office suite war to come
:::

::: spoiler Ubuntu Touch
Ubuntu Touch, the third pillar of the mobile OS ecosystem
:::

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Wireless_Dirk@ani.social · 3 pts · 3d (1 reply)
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Unboxious@ani.social · 3 pts · 3d

I'm going with "extremely unlikely".

hitagi@ani.social · 2 pts · 3d

I see Linux hasn't changed much since then. I use Fedora btw.

ace_garp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d

Chpt 1-14 as a single file on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/ubunchu/page/n1/mode/1up

PS. trisquel.info distro is Ubuntu with all the commercial non-free removed.

Unboxious@ani.social · 2 pts · 3d

I had no idea there were still untranslated chapters out there; thanks for sharing!