On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> If we're going to name the distribution after some of its components,
> why stop at one or two?
...

> It's better to give the whole distribution its own name, and not name
> it after any of its components. Fedora is a software distribution. It
> contains Linux, many GNU components, RPM, MariaDB, Libreoffice and lots
> of other things, but its name is "Fedora". Or call it "Fedora Software
> Distribution" or anything else that doesn't single out any of the
> components. That approach seems to minimize the political fighting.

FreeBSD is just FreeBSD and BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution.

Maybe we should use Fedora Software Distribution.  But I rather like
just plain "Fedora".

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