I think of «Parabola» as the project and community. As for the name of the system we are working on I think it is formally «GNU/Linux-libre».
We could work on other projects, so my vote is for 1. On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:44:13 -0300, Nicolás Reynolds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:19:46 -0500, Luke T.Shumaker <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 :) > _______________________________________________ > Dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.parabolagnulinux.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
