Good Point. I found OpenBIOS and FreeBIOS and LinuxBIOS the same way and I hadn't heard of Tiara until posts on this mailing list. I think BIOS should remain and if the ultimate goal is to boot any OS, regaurdless of what it's built out of, the linux name should go. I say keep FreeBIOS. PW On Thursday 31 May 2001 20:01, you wrote: > Eric Seppanen wrote: > > If you do, why call it ____bios? It's not a bios, and the name causes > > confusion. Witness the less-technical folks who show up here regularly > > wondering if they can replace their factory bios with linuxbios for their > > home machine... > > > > I could easily suggest [open|free|net|tiny|fast]-[boot|launch|start] or > > anything else, but BIOS has had a specific meaning for 20 years, and this > > ain't it. > > I came to Linuxbios by searching "replace bios" word, and then I found > "OpenBios" home page so, next query was "linux bios" and I quickly found > linuxbios home page. I think if you call it something else, there will > be much less pageviews on the home page, so less people (really > interested in it) would find and and so, less contribution would it > have. I think the word "bios" is the "keyword" and it has to remain in > the name. > > Regards > niko
