On Wed, 2002-05-22 at 10:20, Scott Ecker wrote: > Very OT... > > It came up in conversation with some friends yesterday that we weren't clear > on the origin of the names for these two popular floppy/cd firewall > packages. Maybe Charles and Jacques can fill us in on why they're called > Bering and Dachstein. I can see -stein, but why Dach? I'm probably missing > out on a principle of linguistics here.
Scott, Dachstein is a mountain. All of the releases that stem from Matthew Grant's 2.2 kernel branch of LRP use mountains for names. The exception is EigerStein. If you're interested in the discussion that lead to the Dachstein name it's archived in this leaf-devel thread. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02608.html -- Mike Noyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://sourceforge.net/users/mhnoyes/ http://leaf-project.org/ _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
