I would suggest "Muslim OS" On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 8:26 AM, أحمد المحمودي < [email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 12:54:12AM -0500, Mohammad wrote: > > I do consider RedHat and Fedora non-relevant names. Instead of these > names > > any other names could be chosen. I think RedHat or Fedora does not convey > > any meaning or idea about the nature of what their companies are doing > > (developing an OS). At least Ubuntu has its own slogan "linux for human > > beings". And they did a good job in making Linux user friendly and usable > > for naive users (all humans). > > So if we name the project "Fajr" for example, and make the slogan > "Linux for the Ummah", would that be OK ? > > > Think about possible names for a Quranic project. I would say zekr, Noor, > > Hidayah, Tanzil, or any name which has some logical relation with Quran > is a > > good option. My question is how much the suggested names are relavant to > > nature of our project in the way that the names Zekr, Noor, Hidayah, > Tanzil > > are relevant to the nature of a Quranic project. > > I do agree that a name "would better be" relevant to the project, I > just want to say, that it is not always possible, and maybe not really > necessary to be relevant in a direct manner. > > Anyways, I object to the "MuslimOSSP" name, because that won't be easy > to pronounce for non-english (and latin-based language) users. > > Imagine an arab, persian or urdu talking person trying to say OSSP. > > -- > أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) > Digital design engineer > GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) > GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntume.team> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntume.team> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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