I think GSD is a terrible name, it is neither fun or cute. How about
simply calling the system for Guix -- a very good and original name,
and renaming the package manager to Ging -- Ging Is Not Guix. Or Guix
Package Managr, GPM -- makes more sense to the user.
I recognize that the Guix / GSD naming matter is settled, but some
extra, more general thoughts, prompted by this:
On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 11:50 +0100, Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer wrote:
We really need a break from, or almost a fight against, this whole
distro culture
More practically, perhaps
a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
I think GSD is a terrible name, it is neither fun or cute. How about
simply calling the system for Guix -- a very good and original name,
and renaming the package manager to Ging -- Ging Is Not Guix. Or Guix
Package Managr, GPM -- makes more sense to
Let me suggest some sort of a Tobin tax: for every message on this
topic, the sender owes Guix a patch. I’m sure we can reach 1.0 very
quickly, and we get the best of both worlds!
Thank you for your help!
Ludo’.
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The logo should say A GNU System, which is both true and humble
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rs to know the package manager well, I would expect it to be reasonable to
keep
Brandon Invergo bran...@invergo.net writes:
Any other suggestions? Or am I talking nonsense?
I think you're making sense. The word distribution not only gets
people into the distro (therefore Linux) mindset, it's also
descriptionally wrong as you say.
Perhaps a GNU-based operating system is
