My comment was about 50% facetious, but it looks like another thread has picked up the debate.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Alan Altmark > Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 11:12 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Interesting article on zLinux on groklaw > > > On Tuesday, 04/13/2004 at 10:10 AST, "Hall, Ken (IDS ECCS)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Linux on zSeries" is too wordy. We need a shorter version, such as > "Lonz", > > "Linonz", or some such. > > The problem with trying to build an abbreviation is that it doesn't > sufficiently differentiate between "A Linux distribution > built to run in > S/390 architecture, but which runs on S/390 and zSeries boxes or > equivalent" (ON) and "A Linux distribution built to run in > z/Architecture, > including 64-bit addressing mode, that runs only on zSeries boxes or > equivalent" (FOR). > > Alan Altmark > Sr. Software Engineer > IBM z/VM Development > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO > LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ============================================================================== If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. <http://www.ml.com/email_terms/> ============================================================================== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
