Re: New year, new name!

[John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au>]

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I can't see that "Guixotic" is ever going to be a "catchy" name.  It
is too diffucult to pronounce.

How about something like "Gnuix" ?  This would keep the GNU and th Guix
connection, is shorter and much easier to say.


Just my EUR 0,02


J'


On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 04:12:15PM +0100, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
     Hi, Guix!
     
     As you know, we???ve been having this lengthy discussion about what to
     call the Guix-based standalone distro.  RMS and others have argued that
     we can???t reasonably call it ???the GNU system???, and many people have
     proposed alternative names.
     
     Long story short, I???m tempted to refer to the standalone distro as
     ???Guixotic???.  The name was proposed by RMS; it???s a play on words that
     makes fun of criticisms that have depicted the GNU project as
     ???quixotic???.  And it has the advantage of starting with ???Guix???.  (The
     other name that I liked is ???Geist???, which someone proposed on IRC, but
     it lacks those traits.)
     
     As I see it, we would change the baseline on the Guix logo to, say,
     ???dependable, hackable, liberating???.  And we could have an alternative
     logo with ???otic??? appended??, and with a different baseline, say, ???GNU???s
     reference distribution???.  (I count on Nikita or Felipe for this.  ;-))
     
     Thoughts?
     
     Ludo???.
     
     ?? Bonus points to anyone who comes up with a stylized gnuish Quixote.  :-)



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