On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Tom H wrote: >> Richard Owlett wrote: >> > Tom H wrote: >> >> Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> What is a SIG? >> >> >> >> It's a Fedora-ism: special interest group. >> >> >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:SIGs >> > >> > Sorry. Term predates Linus Torvalds let alone Fedora ;) >> > IIRC I came across it as an engineering student in the early 60's. >> >> Of course, but within Linux distributions, it's a Fedora thing. > > I respectfully disagree. Special Interest Groups, SIGs, have been > around for a very long time. Fedora may also use the term and may be > keeping it warm these days but the use of it has been in general > computing for decades. Many of these are quite well known > conferences. (Anyone been to a SIGGRAPH lately?) For example these > and this is just one association. There are many others too.
I was simply making the point that, when the OP mentioning SIGs within the context of his issue with Debian documentation and of a Linux distribution, I understood his reference to be the Fedora definition of SIG, nothing more and nothing less. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SzvK-+cL2DGbq=-fgpzmfjue4frkqvypxfxdmxy0k2...@mail.gmail.com
