From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: New year, new name! Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 20:22:14 +0100 Message-ID: <20150105192214.GA17219@debian.fritz.box> References: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42723) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8DEN-0000Jg-8E for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:22:24 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8DEJ-0006aJ-V1 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 14:22:23 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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: "Thompson, David" Cc: guix-devel On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:09:09AM -0500, Thompson, David wrote: > I don't like "Guixotic" very much. Me neither; it apparently refers to Don Quixote, who is generally considered as a ridiculous person disconnected from the preoccupations of its time. The main episode that comes to mind is that of the windmills; I do not think we should leave the impression that Guix is fighting a fight that it is bound to lose, and that moreover is ridiculous from the start. > On a purely sonic level, I like the way "Geist" sounds more. "Geist" (which is also unclear how to pronounce, with probably a different "natural" pronunciation in each European language) is a German word meaning "spirit" or "mind" in English; it does not seem very suitable for the GNU distribution. If there needs to be a separate name, I think we should spend more time searching for a better one. Andreas