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On Dec 17, 2003, at 10:20, Branden Robinson wrote:
Given that we're going to be saddled with with a comprehension problem anyway, I say we abandon the effort to be descriptive in the product name. I proposed having a correlation between the first letter of the product name and the underlying BSD variant simply as a mnemonic convenience for people who already know what the products are supposed to be.
We don't have to *completely* give up the effort to be descriptive. How about just calling it:
Debian GNU/NBSD Debian GNU/FBSD Debian GNU/OBSD (if there's ever an OpenBSD port)
It would have the advantage of being recognizable to most people, without actually using 'NetBSD' or so anywhere in the name.
[ The following suggestion is possibly flameworthy. Please consider the above separate from the below. ]
In the case of a NetBSD libc, you could use
Debian NBSD/NBSD
basically having the first half signify which libc is used. However, if Debian is always going to use the GNU/ prefix, then perhaps make it something like
Debian GNU/NBSD/NBSD
with the third part signifying the libc used.
Kevin