On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:43:43PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:17:03PM -0200, Rog?rio Brito wrote: > > > >>On Dec 26 2004, Mauro Darida wrote: > >> > >>>The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing > >>>named _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu. > >> > >>And what about using something called Debian? Is that a "good name" or a > >>"commercially feasible name"? > > > > > >Sure, and versions named "potato" and "slink" and "etch" sure sound > >professional, don't they? What a weird criterion to use. > > > >Hell "unix" is a joke name, it's just old enough that people don't > >think about it much. > > IIRC, UNIX was named that way because of the system that Thompson and > Ritchie got the idea from being called MULTICS. >
For OS names, I've always liked Plan 9 From the Phone Company. Most geeks today are too young to realize how wierd that was in its time. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
