From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Darrington Subject: Re: New year, new name! Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:43:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20150105104320.GA2569@jocasta.intra> References: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49913) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y858D-0000Ln-Hg for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:43:30 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y858C-0002Fb-Ho for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 05:43:29 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic Court??s Cc: guix-devel --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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! =20 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 ha= ve proposed alternative names. =20 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.) =20 As I see it, we would change the baseline on the Guix logo to, say, ???dependable, hackable, liberating???. And we could have an alternat= ive logo with ???otic??? appended??, and with a different baseline, say, ?= ??GNU???s reference distribution???. (I count on Nikita or Felipe for this. ;-= )) =20 Thoughts? =20 Ludo???. =20 ?? Bonus points to anyone who comes up with a stylized gnuish Quixote.= :-) --=20 PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3=20 fingerprint =3D 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlSqasgACgkQimdxnC3oJ7M2LQCdFnsP9R0SsB4V/04uqIfJfuML ZpoAnj99aZkPc3EWkn9dJx8s+M2f3W6k =MNvk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pWyiEgJYm5f9v55/--