From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?RmVsaXBlIEzDs3Bleg==?= Subject: Re: New year, new name! Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:40:48 -0500 Message-ID: <54AAA270.3000006@openmailbox.org> References: <87egra60mo.fsf@gnu.org> <20150105104320.GA2569@jocasta.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33005) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88hK-0002FK-Hc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:31:59 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88hF-0003AK-Lo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:31:58 -0500 Received: from mail2.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.33]:52211) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y88hF-00039Z-DN for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 05 Jan 2015 09:31:53 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.openmailbox.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F0A200033 for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:31:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail2.openmailbox.org ([62.4.1.33]) by localhost (mail.openmailbox.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id zwzuaunG7l-x for ; Mon, 5 Jan 2015 15:31:47 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <20150105104320.GA2569@jocasta.intra> 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: guix-devel@gnu.org On 05/01/15 05:43, John Darrington wrote: > I can't see that "Guixotic" is ever going to be a "catchy" name. It > is too diffucult to pronounce. I don't like the name either. Personally, I would have tried to find a name in a neutral language like Ido. I just tested the name "Guixotic" with three Spanish speakers. One pronounced it /gw=C9=AAkso't=C9=AAk/ and the others /g=C9=AAkso't=C9=AAk/= (these people don't know English, by the way). > How about something like "Gnuix" ? This would keep the GNU and th Guix > connection, is shorter and much easier to say. I tested this one with the same people. All made a long pause and said, "Hmm", and then pronounced it pretty much the same /nw'=C9=AAks/. All of = them paused because they didn't know how to pronounce the G. I still think that calling the Guix distro "GNU" would have been better, and I don't see how calling it "Guixotic - the reference distribution of GNU" is any different from calling it "GNU", since saying "the reference distro" implies the same issues RMS and others saw in calling the distro "GNU". Anyways... If "Guixotic" is written in stone, I may give it a try to the logo. --=20 Luis Felipe L=C3=B3pez Acevedo http://sirgazil.bitbucket.org/ ID Klefo PGP : 0x8A296B99 Marko fingrala: 7ED8 4963 C881 647C 9DA0 FDE6 881B 91ED 8A29 6B99