Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-19 Thread Anselm Lingnau
john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. I'm also in favour of penguin names. Anselm -- Anselm Lingnau . [EMAIL PROTECTED] The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-18 Thread Jeff Noxon
On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:57:50PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Cool, a linux named Opus. Can it get better? Chilly Willy was another famous

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Tille) wrote on 08.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: see at the people near you and look at yourself with the eyes of an Hitchhiker) Can't. (Can you guess that I don't much like the Hitchhiker stuff?) - Another naming scheme without any background would be A, B,

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-18 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) | | - Another naming scheme without any background would be A, B, C... |There where programming languages doing this for only three |stages to get *very* popular... | | Nope. That wasn't the sequence that led to C. I won't swear to it, but I | seem to

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-18 Thread servis
*- Jeff Noxon wrote about Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink | On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:57:50PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: | On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | john I'd still like to use penguins. |Indeed

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Oct 18, 1998 at 09:26:10AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- Jeff Noxon wrote about Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink | On Sat, Oct 17, 1998 at 09:57:50PM +0100, Dave Swegen wrote: | On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel

What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Christopher Barry
Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: theone wrote: Names after

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Christopher Barry wrote: Saw this posting from Bruce on Slashdot: http://www.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=98/10/15/1011208pid=128#147 Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole bunch' of code names? scnr Joey -- GNU GPL: The source will be with you...

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread john
Joey writes: Do you want us to hurry up in order to catch up with the new 'whole bunch' of code names? I'd still like to use penguins. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. -- Linux is not only free; it is, arguably, a better operating system, offering a degree of stability and an ability to scale up that NT cannot match. -- The Economist,

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Alexander Koch
On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Hmh.. no. ,-) I prefer comics and things like that.. argh, so to say. :-) Alexander -- Matthias needs someone to smack him upside with an iron

Re: What Bruce had to say about non-Pixar names. Re: what's after slink

1998-10-17 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sat, 17 October 1998 11:10:10 -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: john I'd still like to use penguins. Indeed, that was the best proposal yet. Cool, a linux named Opus. Can it get better? Cheers Dave

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-16 Thread warp
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:45:49PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: theone wrote: Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after userfriendly characters. Oooh.. that means our releases would even have their

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-15 Thread Joey Hess
theone wrote: Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after userfriendly characters. Oooh.. that means our releases would even have their own geek code blocks (http://www.userfriendly.org/cast/) ;-) dust_puppy pitr aj chief cobb erwin greg hillary mike smiling_man stef

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-15 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: theone wrote: Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after userfriendly characters. Oooh.. that means our releases would even have their own geek code blocks (http://www.userfriendly.org/cast/) ;-)

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-15 Thread David Welton
On Thu, Oct 15, 1998 at 03:29:34PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote: theone wrote: Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after userfriendly characters. Great - I liked the penguin idea, but the names aren't very practical for directories... pity... Anyway - are we going to

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-09 Thread Raul Miller
On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? Justin Maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we may be running out of good ones (i admit, rc was a stretch) irony type=mild Is

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Maurer) wrote on 04.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we may be running out of good ones (i admit, rc

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello, just my two cents to this topic: - Names should be short (= 6 signs) - I don't know The Toystory and I'm sure that it isn't kind of I film I should really watch, but it is a practical naming sheme (short names which everybody can speak and write) - The only case where I would accept

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread theone
Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after userfriendly characters. Check out http://www.userfriendly.org

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Steve Lamb
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:09:51 +1300, theone wrote: Names after Slink is very simple. They should just be named after userfriendly characters. Check out http://www.userfriendly.org Dust Bunny!!! Dust Bunny!!! And not Crud Bunny :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 08 Oct 1998, Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Maurer) wrote on 04.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread warp
Debian 2.4 (Erwin/Ix86!) Debian 2.5 (Erwin/iWhack!) I'm sure that Erwin will be on other platforms by the time we get to 2.6.. (=:] Zephaniah E, Hull, --- A big fan of Erwin.. On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 12:19:59AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 20:09:51 +1300, theone wrote: Names

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-08 Thread Oliver Elphick
Steve Lamb wrote: Dust Bunny!!! Dust Bunny!!! And not Crud Bunny :) Better not be Bugs Bunny! -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:43:12PM +1000, Matthew Parry wrote: `Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a Fairy Penguin) I like the Hitch Hikers idea: Depends what image you want for the system. The HHGTTG was good, but I don't think it is worth naming the

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Wed, Oct 07, 1998 at 09:34:46AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Depends what image you want for the system. The HHGTTG was good, but I don't think it is worth naming the releases after it. I prefer the penguins. BTW, wasn't it Slartibartfast, one word? Another vote for penguins. Speaking

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Guy Maor
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is an ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid, with such recent things as debian-arm, so.. I think that's next:- No, sid is the permanently unstable distribution, where architectures that have yet to be released live. Guy

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread Chris Waters
Matthew Parry wrote: I like the Hitch Hikers idea: I would like to go on record as being *strongly* opposed to the Hitchhiker's Guide idea. I really don't want to give the impression that Debian is some sort of joke. I also find it extremely unoriginal, and rather puerile. (I didn't even

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-07 Thread warp
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:20:45PM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: snip I think I'd almost rather switch to Red Hat than use the Beeblebrox release. I mean, what's next? Putting pictures of maintainer's pets on the Debian web page? :-) Let me get some nice pictures of my kitten, taz, she is a

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:24:37AM -0700, David Welton wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium this summer.)

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 08:51:23AM +0100, Enrique Zanardi wrote: Really good. I just can't wait for my Debian Yellow Eyed system. :-) Isn't our logo nicknamed Captain Blue Eye? That should match up quite nicely ;-) Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Stig Sandbeck Mathisen
* M.C. Vernon (Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 04:02:32PM +0100) How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... I like my new debian emperor system ;) This penguin idea, along with the Hitchhiker's Guide idea are the two best ideas I have seen in a

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Matthew Parry
How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... I like my new debian emperor system ;) `Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a Fairy Penguin) I like the Hitch Hikers idea: Debian Zaphod Debian Beebelbrox

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
---Matthew Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... I like my new debian emperor system ;) `Debian Fairy'? I don't know about that... (BTW Linus was bitten by a Fairy Penguin) I like

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:48:54AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: ---Matthew Parry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... I like my new debian emperor system ;) `Debian Fairy'?

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Santiago Vila
I support Jim Pick's idea: If Bug's Life is any good, maybe we could snarf names from there but if we really need 60 messages (so far) to decide about this, we should probably create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) -- 9c0fbcfbb1d1e4a94f0dde1fe1fbffe1 (a truly random sig)

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread David Welton
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 08:46:37PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: I support Jim Pick's idea: If Bug's Life is any good, maybe we could snarf names from there but if we really need 60 messages (so far) to decide about this, we should probably create [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Yes, please -

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Don't forget, when Arthur and Ford woke up on the Heart Of Gold after being shoved out of the vogon (Hey that's another good name!) ship Arthur begain to lose limbs and Ford was turning into a ... PENGUIN! ... (until the probabibility level dropped down to 1:1). ---Matthew Parry [EMAIL

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 11:49:47AM -0700, David Welton wrote: Yes, please - debian-creative. For logos, names, and other things of that ilk that are fun to discuss, but that we shoudlnt force on people who just want to do tech things. I second (and subscribe right away!)

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Adam P. Harris
Joseph Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [1 text/plain; us-ascii (quoted-printable)] On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I thought 2.2 was going to be rc, and 3.0 would be woody. Johnnie Ingram was pushing for that one, as were a few others. But didn't an

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: 2.2 potatoe 2.3 andy 2.4 davis 3.0 sergeant 3.1 hannah Bo was taken, but how about Peep? Ben -- nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chebucto

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Russell Coker
As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:- how about endangered species. e.g. tigers, cheetahs, whales, microsoft, etc. Gnome seems to be headed

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread James Troup
Russell Coker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about pop stars? We could have Debian sporty, Debian Ginger, Debian Posh... *bang* -- James

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 07:52:23PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:- how about endangered species. e.g.

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Vincent Renardias
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Ben Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: 2.2 potatoe 2.3 andy 2.4 davis 3.0 sergeant 3.1 hannah Bo was taken, but how about Peep? Not a good idea considering what it (phonetically) means in French... (Or we might as well call it Debian

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Robert Woodcock
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Vincent RENARDIAS wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Ben Armstrong wrote: On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: 2.2 potatoe 2.3 andy 2.4 davis 3.0 sergeant 3.1 hannah Bo was taken, but how about Peep? Not a good idea considering what it (phonetically) means in

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread servis
How about naming the releases after current developers last names sorted by date of becoming a developer and then sorted by alpha(if two or more were activated on the same day). Debian Murdock (an exception but appropriate) : Debian Jackson : Debian Schulze etc. That should last about forever as

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... I like my new debian emperor system ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Alexander Koch
On Mon, 5 October 1998 19:52:23 +1000, Russell Coker wrote: Posh... After 5 more releases of Debian the Spice girls will be history and we can name versions after their replacements! Please, don't. Alexander -- Video killed the radio star ... then the Shite Girls killed the rest. Alexander

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 05:38:02PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: The namespase lasts for five more releases. Or do I misunderstand something? On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? Does it really matter? pgpGlHXoyGpzD.pgp

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong). - there is always: Debian Zaphod, Debian Arthur, Debian Prefect, Debian

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium this summer.) -- How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Why don't you guys start using the names of the girls Clinton has de-flowered. Peter -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, October 05, 1998 12:07 PM Subject: Re: what's after slink

RE: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Bill Moshier
We could just start using names from the new AntZ movie. -Original Message- From: Kenneth Scharf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 10:07 AM To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what's after slink The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! BTW that was Mavin

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium this summer.) -- How about naming it

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium this summer.) fx:nice warm glow Glad people

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Tom Lees
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong). And Trillian. And Agrajag. etc. etc. etc. I think this is the best

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 08:22:00PM +0100, Tom Lees wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:51AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: The hitchhikers guide!!! I love it!!! BTW that was Mavin (the paranoid android not the martin). Don't forget Slarty Barfast (I know I spelled that one wrong). And

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread Christian Hammers
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:24:37AM -0700, David Welton wrote: How about naming it after species of penguin? Hey, the first VERY GOOD idea ! read you, -christian- -- Linux - the choice of the GNU generation. Join the Debian Project

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread john
Matthew writes: How about naming it [Debian releases] after species of penguin? *Excellent* idea. I suppose it's too late to rename 2.1? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: Ben Gertzfield wrote: Here's what imdb.com says: Cast overview, first billed only: snip imdb.com lists the following named characters on the full cast page: Tom Hanks Woody (voice) Tim Allen Buzz Lightyear (voice) Don

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Justin Maurer
ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!). rc! the radio control car! i say rc should be 2.2, as i have before. # Justin Maurer GNOME Hacker # [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian Developer #

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:45:36PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote: ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!). rc! the radio control car! i say rc should be 2.2, as i have before. Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is called sid. If you guys want to discuss this, at least make it

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: : On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 10:45:36PM -0400, Justin Maurer wrote: : : ah, but imdb is missing one important character (at least!). : rc! the radio control car! : : i say rc should be 2.2, as i have before. : : Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: I thought 2.2 was going to be rc, and 3.0 would be woody. Johnnie Ingram was pushing for that one, as were a few others. But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that woody should be bypassed as it would be offensive to

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 09:53:55PM -0500, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: : Debian 2.2, on the FTP site, is called sid. If you guys want to : discuss this, at least make it clear that you are talking about 2.3 or : 3 or whaterver. : : hamm - slink - sid

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:- how about endangered species. e.g. tigers, cheetahs, whales,

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread David Welton
On Sun, Oct 04, 1998 at 01:59:15PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:-

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:32:58PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: [snip] 2.2 potatoe ^ LANG=US-vice-president perhaps? Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian Linux

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Will Lowe
As far as something to replace them.. hrmm. Geography has been popular lately.. cities, rivers.. Something international would be good. Lakes? Seas? National parks? Drinks?:- Famous Free Software personalities? Debian Stallman, Debian Raymond (ok, so I might get in trouble for that

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Martin Schulze wrote: The namespase lasts for five more releases. Or do I misunderstand something? On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? Wichert. --

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Justin Maurer
On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we may be running out of good ones (i admit, rc was a stretch) #

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-04 Thread Martin Schulze
Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Martin Schulze wrote: The namespase lasts for five more releases. Or do I misunderstand something? On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies now that Bruce is gone? I don't see a reason for not continuing this scheme.

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) -- Brought to you by the letters E and L and the number

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Daniel Martin
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) I've been

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Daniel == Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). Ben I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) Daniel I've been wondering why this wasn't tried

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 09:09:52PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Daniel == Daniel Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). There is an

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). Ben I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :)

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:20:29PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :) I thought 2.2 was going to be rc, and 3.0

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Manoj == Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth == Kenneth Scharf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ben == Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). Ben I

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Joey Hess
Ben Gertzfield wrote: Spencer Aste Additional Voice so we really don't have that many more choices.. Hmm, I think debian 2.1 (additional voice) has a nice ring to it. :-P -- see shy jo

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, Oct 02, 1998 at 05:20:29PM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Kenneth After you freeze slink, what will be then name of the new Kenneth 'unstable' release (debian 2.2 or 3.0 that is). I think 'woody' would be an appropriate nickname. :)

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that woody should be bypassed as it would be offensive to some people. It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to think so. Aren't there children's stories with a character

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Martin Schulze
This leaves the following possible names: Ben Gertzfield wrote: Here's what imdb.com says: Cast overview, first billed only: Don Rickles Mr. Potato Head John Morris (III) Andy Laurie Metcalf Mrs. Davis R. Lee Ermey Sergeant Sarah Freeman Hannah

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Martin Schulze wrote: This leaves the following possible names: Ben Gertzfield wrote: Here's what imdb.com says: Cast overview, first billed only: Don Rickles Mr. Potato Head John Morris (III) Andy Laurie Metcalf Mrs. Davis R.

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Hamish == Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob But didn't an even earlier discussion conclude that woody Bob should be bypassed as it would be offensive to some people. Hamish It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to Hamish think so. Aren't there children's

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: [ snip ] : That's from the credits, but there are some more : : r.c. (mentioned previously) : molly : snake : robot : etch : mike : mr. spell : lenny : claw : : There were a few others, but I couldn't pick out the names from the : soundtrack.

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Kenneth Scharf
If 'Woody' was offensive, do you think that Disney would have used the name in their movie? Wasn't toy story rated G? Come on, who is more sensitive to this than the mouse factory? -- On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 06:57:54AM -0700, Bob Nielsen

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-03 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Oct 03, 1998 at 11:26:51AM -0700, Ben Gertzfield wrote: Hamish It's only offensive if you're in the frame of mind to Hamish think so. Aren't there children's stories with a Hamish character named Woody Woodpecker? Actually, Woody Woodpecker is a cartoon, still shown on