Richard Stallman <[email protected]> skribis: > > "Avant-garde" strikes me as something one might use to describe Guix in > > passing but not as something that would use as part of its > > formal/official designation. I also associate it more with art than > > technology. > > How about "advanced"?
I think both proposals as well as Karl’s are fine to describe what the distro is. However, the original need we have is for a name that can be used to designate the distro in technical documents and discussions, and long periphrases do not help with that. We could call it Guix, but that’s ambiguous: in the manual and in discussions, we often need to be able to distinguish between Guix-the-package-manager used atop some other distro, and Guix-the-standalone-distro. A list of short names has been collected at <https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Suggested_Distro_Names> in the event “GNU” could not be used. Thanks, Ludo’.
