On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:54:14PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:13:03PM -0500, Nathan Hawkins wrote:
If we're really worried about this, we can always use the names of the
Dwarves in the Hobbit. Most (all?) of those names are from Icelandic
sags, IIRC. So is
Branden == Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Branden Remember, outside the Free Software community, copyright is
Branden used only as a destructive weapon, not a tool for promoting
Branden cooperation and harmony.
It looks like not only outside Free Software community, considering
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:03:55AM +, Henning Makholm wrote:
Scripsit Kevin Kreamer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the case of a NetBSD libc, you could use
Debian NBSD/NBSD
basically having the first half signify which libc is used.
Wouldn't that be a major
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 06:37:56PM -0600, Kevin Kreamer wrote:
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On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:20, Branden Robinson wrote:
Given that we're going to be saddled with with a comprehension problem
anyway, I say we abandon the effort to be descriptive in the product
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:41:46AM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
You are currently saying that the GNU in GNU/Linux is justified by the
glibc and not by any other GNU software, because these GNU software
are common on other unixes.
Why? If you are right that others unixes uses widely GNU
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:26:10AM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 04:42:28PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
Well, just for the record, i personnally would prefer we don't use
demon name for keyword if possible.
Forgive me for the gratuitous Harry Potter reference, but fear
Sven == Sven Luther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sven That would be a funny naming scheme. That said, how would we then
Sven differentiate the three BSD ports ? GNU/First one that shall not be
Sven named and so one ?
Indeed !
GNU/First one that shall not be named
GNU/Next one that shall not be
Mathieu == Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mathieu If we follow your theory, it means that if someday another
Mathieu system use the glibc, we should remove the GNU from the
Mathieu GNU/Linux name.
FWIW, BeOS uses glibc.
~velco
Julian Mehnle dijo [Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100]:
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If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker. Not
that there was a serious chance of that happening - drop-in replacement
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:15:37PM +0100, Mathieu Roy wrote:
Why not?
You said what I expected from you: you revealed that you disbelieve
that the system should be called GNU/Linux. Good to know in this kind
of discussion.
raised brows
I'm not a True Believer, if that's what you mean.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:06:56PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:56:15PM +0100, Julian Mehnle wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we ever get a replacement libc that would really work as
replacement... on such system GNU claims would become much weaker.
Not
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 02:26:27PM +0200, Momchil Velikov wrote:
Mathieu == Mathieu Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Mathieu If we follow your theory, it means that if someday another
Mathieu system use the glibc, we should remove the GNU from the
Mathieu GNU/Linux name.
rereads
Arrgh...
My
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:13:29AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
Cf. Jesux.
...which has gone for some years without attracting anyone who is both
pious enough and clueful enough to develop it.
I find this inverse correlation suggestive. :)
Or, it could be that Jesux wasn't really
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 11:33:48PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:24:04AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
| Demons are evil,
|
| Demons don't exist. Consequently, their moral value is undefinable.
I claim that their moral
[ Re-adding Cc to debian-bsd, since it's a serious naming proposal ]
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:12:05PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 13:42:23 -0500
Branden Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I think daemons first showed up in the _Fiend Folio_, which
means we have
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Alle 21:13, mercoledì 17 dicembre 2003, Nathan Hawkins ha scritto:
If you wanted Greek names, there are plenty of obscure nymphs, satyrs,
centaurs, etc. to choose from.
Here's the name index from Ovid's
Mathieu Roy wrote:
Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mathieu Roy wrote:
...
When I'm told that a system is running GNU/whatever, I expect first to
find there GNU coreutils, GNU bash, GNU Emacs, GNU Compiler
Collection, gzip, GNU awk,GNU make, the GNU Debugger, GNU sysutils,
GNU tar, GNUpg, GNU
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:59:10PM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
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On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:51, Joel Baker wrote:
GNU represents the Gnu system, running with a native (Hurd) kernel
Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The impression (and, frankly, not an entirely clear one) I have gotton
from RMS's various comments on the naming, especially in regards to
NetBSD, boil down to the following (modulo probably screwing up the
capitalization, which I can never remember the
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On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:55, Joel Baker wrote:
*NetBSD* is asking for it to be 'KNetBSD' rather than just 'NetBSD',
because the latter, in their view (and theirs is the view one should
respect,
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