jdd wrote:
From http://reverendted.wordpress.com/
A colleague of mine and I just ordered 7,500 DVD's copies of the 10.1
release of openSUSE. Novell does hand them out freely, but mostly at
events. We also make openSUSE freely available for download from
openSUSE.org.
we definitively need to rethink the SUSE Linux versus opensuse linux
naming...
(TED is a Provo SE)
jdd
It was mentioned before, when I was splitting a hair, why openSUSE for
both. It is common to use as little names as possible. That is how
naming works to support our limited memory.
Not everyone is involved in computing and Linux to be willing to pay
attention to difference between SUSE Linux and openSUSE community. Why
they remember openSUSE and not SUSE Linux. Because the web address they
have to remember if they want to come back, or tell anybody where to go,
the rest is not important, specially newcomers that have no emotional
binds to any previous name. They don't see the difference, and are
surprised with old S.u.S.E. guys reaction and reminder that there is no
openSUSE Linux.
Sure there is. Go to www.opensuse.org and download it.
Please, don't complain about this, I am one of the old guard, and I'm
not very pleased with permanent changes of the name: S.u.S.E. , than
SuSE, than SUSE. Once it was changed from original, to make typing
easier, it was still understandable SuSE, just dots removed, but then to
SUSE, why not instantly to Suse.
Than, why this with not capitalized first letter of openSUSE instead of
OpenSUSE (or OpenSuse).
It makes trouble in almost any language that has no article making
possible to start with "The openSUSE ...", "Die openSUSE ..." etc.
For instance in ancient Latin ;-)
Proper start of sentence would be "OpenSUSE ...", but then the name is
openSUSE. How to translate the Welcome page to Latin?
Even the mediawiki software doesn't accept that :-)
but it doesn't ask either, it is OpenSUSE, end of story.
It is just matter of time when someone with power to make decision will
cut the Gordian Knot and make it one name.
What would be that? Well my guess is that running another name that
would be different than community name, pardon web page name, will mean
status quo. I'm just asking mercy for languages that have no ability to
insert something before name when starting the sentence, and make it
OpenSUSE like OpenOffice.
BTW, on openSUSE everything is openSUSE except the distribution name.
--
Regards,
Rajko.
Visit http://en.opensuse.org
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