On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:19:46 -0500, Luke T.Shumaker <[email protected]> wrote: > This was discussed a little in the votation about the domain name, > but: > > What do you want the formal name of the operating system to be? > > Options brought up so far: > 1. "Parabola GNU/Linux-libre" > 2. "Parabola GNU/Linux" > 3. "Parabola GNU" > 4. "Parabola" > > Both 1 and 2 have been the official official name so far. > > Our latest news post (about parabola.nu) and the related wiki article > both use option 3. (by Charles) > > Options 3 and 4 have appealed to several of us because it opens the > possibilites of other kernels, such as GNU HURD or kFreeBSD. > > ---- > > My argument for option 4 ("Parabola"): > > * It's what we all say anyway. > * In hope of addopting other kernels. > * In agreement with sharkx: > > I voted for parabola.nu because it dose not have gnu in its > > name. While we follow gnu's philosophy of free software, we are > > not affiliated to the gnu organization as such. ".nu" has no > > meaning to me. > > ~ Luke Shumaker > > Yay for bikeshedding!
I generally think of Parabola as the project (meaning community plus specific goals), but I often use it as a shortcut for the system - Parabola GNU/Linux-libre. Parabola GNU/Linux always looks misleading, since we're using Linux but a specific fork of it, that should me mentioned. If we were going to be a GNU project it's custom to use GNU Parabola, not Parabola GNU. This one could refer to the system GNU libs, compilers and utils + Hurd, since all of them are GNU projects. This way it should be called "Parabola GNU system" or "Parabola's GNU system". My vote is for Parabola for the project and GNU/Linux-libre for the system we're working on :) PS: Lots of voting lately, I like the democratic practice :)
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