On Thursday 10 August 2006 18:27, jdd wrote: > I wont revive a troll nor contest the new openSUSE name. But > we have an history and a wiki and we must take care of all > that stuff. > > How will we call the distribution in the wiki pages? what if > we speak of 9.3 ? what if we speak of all of them? 9.3 was called SUSE Linux and still is > > I propose here what could be written in the wiki tomorrow > (or so) > > I think we could say that "openSUSE" is now the official > name _of all_ the suse distributions whatever they are. but... > > * for the pre-10.2, the name SUSE Linux is acceptable (and > can be written as you like, capitalized or not, SuSE or SUSE) we should give a clear direction - and this is openSUSE There will be different writing anyway but we shouldn't start with it. > > * If it's not obvious by the context that the subject is the > distribution itself (it could be the wiki or the project) or > if somebody want to insist on our origin, one can add the > word "Linux" to openSUSE, that is speak of "openSUSE Linux" same as above - openSUSE > > * at the beginning of a sentence, one can write OpenSUSE, > with a capitalised "O" That's something for a brand expert. I'd say again it's openSUSE regardless where.
Michael > > of course all this is obvious, but seen the discussion we > had here, better make sure before fixing the wiki :-) > > jdd
