Re: [Cooker] Software naming (was: Please don't make urpmi stupid)

2003-01-09 Thread Buchan Milne
Guy.Bormann wrote: >>>On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> the name "urpmi" does sound stupid, like somebody belching. why do linux programmers give their software such silly names? guess they dont have sales or packaging departments >>> >>>Because it's fewer key

Re: [Cooker] Software naming (was: Please don't make urpmi stupid)

2003-01-09 Thread Guy.Bormann
On Wed, 8 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hmm. must be from the days when you had to enter special codes for each key stroke. Please reply BELOW the message! > Quoting Steve Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > the name "urpmi" does sound

Re: [Cooker] Software naming (was: Please don't make urpmi stupid)

2003-01-08 Thread pablito
hmm. must be from the days when you had to enter special codes for each key stroke. Quoting Steve Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the name "urpmi" does sound stupid, like somebody belching. why do > > linux programmers give their software suc

[Cooker] Software naming (was: Please don't make urpmi stupid)

2003-01-08 Thread Steve Fox
On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 01:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > the name "urpmi" does sound stupid, like somebody belching. why do > linux programmers give their software such silly names? guess they > dont have sales or packaging departments Because it's fewer keystrokes! :) GNOME 2.0 went and rename