Good Point.  I found OpenBIOS and FreeBIOS and LinuxBIOS the same way and I 
hadn't heard of Tiara until posts on this mailing list.  I think BIOS should 
remain and if the ultimate goal is to boot any OS, regaurdless of what it's 
built out of, the linux name should go.  I say keep FreeBIOS.

PW

On Thursday 31 May 2001 20:01, you wrote:
> Eric Seppanen wrote:
> > If you do, why call it ____bios?  It's not a bios, and the name causes
> > confusion.  Witness the less-technical folks who show up here regularly
> > wondering if they can replace their factory bios with linuxbios for their
> > home machine...
> >
> > I could easily suggest [open|free|net|tiny|fast]-[boot|launch|start] or
> > anything else, but BIOS has had a specific meaning for 20 years, and this
> > ain't it.
>
> I came to Linuxbios by searching "replace bios" word, and then I found
> "OpenBios" home page so, next query was "linux bios" and I quickly found
> linuxbios home page. I think if you call it something else, there will
> be much less pageviews on the home page, so less people (really
> interested in it) would find and and so, less contribution would it
> have. I think the word "bios" is the "keyword" and it has to remain in
> the name.
>
> Regards
> niko

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