hmm, Sugar aims to be available as an alternative desktop in all kinds of linux distros, so would be a bad name for an OLPC-made distro.
Tomeu On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Walter Bender <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This discussion reminds me of a favorite puzzle from Douglas Hofstadter > > 0, 1, 2, 3, 720!, ... > > That is a numbering scheme with lots of headroom. > > I agree that OLPC is the wrong name. There are reports that the > software is now running, for example, on a Classmate PC. So any direct > tie to OLPC is not necessarily appropriate. Maybe Sugar? something > else? But there is not much simpler than 1,2,3... > > -walter > > > > > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > walter wrote: > > > > > > I'm in favor of Dennis's suggestion. OLPC-1; OLPC-2, ... It is simple > > > and, I argue, unambiguous. The hardware is XO-1, XO-2... > > > > as perhaps more of an outsider here, i'd say that this is not > > "unambiguous". people with the laptops regularly refer to them > > as "my OLPC" -- perhaps encouraged by the unfortunate "PC" in the > > acronym. > > > > as for numbers: sequential is good, but starting higher than 1 might > > give room for adding structure later if necessary. (e.g. the 200 series > > of releases might be a break from the 100 series.) > > > > paul > > =--------------------- > > paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (arlington, ma, where it's degrees) > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Devel mailing list > > Devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel