The prefix is much longer than the actual information that the name is supposed to provide ;-)
p. Walter Bender wrote: > True. How about OLPC-Fedora.1, ... > > -walter > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> hmm, Sugar aims to be available as an alternative desktop in all kinds >> of linux distros, so would be a bad name for an OLPC-made distro. >> >> Tomeu >> >> >> >> On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > This discussion reminds me of a favorite puzzle from Douglas Hofstadter >> > >> > 0, 1, 2, 3, 720!, ... >> > >> > That is a numbering scheme with lots of headroom. >> > >> > I agree that OLPC is the wrong name. There are reports that the >> > software is now running, for example, on a Classmate PC. So any direct >> > tie to OLPC is not necessarily appropriate. Maybe Sugar? something >> > else? But there is not much simpler than 1,2,3... >> > >> > -walter >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > walter wrote: >> > > > >> > > > I'm in favor of Dennis's suggestion. OLPC-1; OLPC-2, ... It is >> simple >> > > > and, I argue, unambiguous. The hardware is XO-1, XO-2... >> > > >> > > as perhaps more of an outsider here, i'd say that this is not >> > > "unambiguous". people with the laptops regularly refer to them >> > > as "my OLPC" -- perhaps encouraged by the unfortunate "PC" in the >> > > acronym. >> > > >> > > as for numbers: sequential is good, but starting higher than 1 might >> > > give room for adding structure later if necessary. (e.g. the 200 >> series >> > > of releases might be a break from the 100 series.) >> > > >> > > paul >> > > =--------------------- >> > > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's degrees) >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Devel mailing list >> > > Devel@lists.laptop.org >> > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Devel mailing list >> > Devel@lists.laptop.org >> > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >> > >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > -- Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos Graduate student Viral Communications MIT Media Lab Tel: +1 (617) 459-6058 http://www.mit.edu/~ypod/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel