From: Adam Pribyl <pribyl@lowlevel.cz>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: New year, new name!
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2015 11:35:52 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1501051134290.24585@sandbox.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org>
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On Sun, 4 Jan 2015, Ludovic Courtès 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.)
Well well, ok. I think this is good, as it caused a lot of confusion.
> Ludo’.
Adam Pribyl
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-05 10:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-04 15:12 New year, new name! Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-05 10:35 ` Adam Pribyl [this message]
2015-01-05 10:43 ` John Darrington
2015-01-05 14:40 ` Felipe López
2015-01-06 14:28 ` Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro
2015-01-06 14:58 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-01-06 19:05 ` Felipe López
2015-01-05 11:29 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-01-05 11:53 ` Svetlana Tkachenko
2015-01-05 15:30 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-01-05 16:15 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-05 16:53 ` Felipe López
2015-01-05 22:11 ` Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer
2015-01-05 22:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-05 15:09 ` Thompson, David
2015-01-05 19:22 ` Andreas Enge
2015-01-05 19:56 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-13 10:20 ` Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-22 17:30 ` New year, new name² Ludovic Courtès
2015-01-26 1:06 ` Daniel Pimentel
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