Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-22 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
On 10/22/2012 09:44 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote: A release name is just a way to identify a set, and if Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich are okay, why not Beefy Miracle? Essentially none are "meaningful," simply unique identifiers used to facilitate identification. It is a lot less likely to say

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Fred Erickson wrote: On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:06 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:31 PM, Joe Wulf wrote: Joe, I like the sensibility you are suggesting bringing Fedora (names) back to. R, -Joe Thanx. My objection to Beefy Miracle is that it looks suggestive. Not because I mind it b

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:31 PM, Joe Wulf wrote: Joe, I like the sensibility you are suggesting bringing Fedora (names) back to. R, -Joe Thanx. My objection to Beefy Miracle is that it looks suggestive. Not because I mind it being suggestive as such, but because I'm afraid that midd

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/17/2012 10:56 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Does that really matter? But if you insist: pronouncing it in a similar way as "I fart cool" should come close, I think. Better ask that someone from Iceland, though... Well, yes, it does, because people are going to want to be a

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-22 Thread Bill Davidsen
Joe Zeff wrote: On 10/17/2012 12:31 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: 16.10.2012 23:11, Joe Zeff: I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the list at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_fo

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-18 Thread Lailah
El mié, 17-10-2012 a las 12:02 -0700, Joe Zeff escribió: > On 10/17/2012 11:50 AM, Fedora User wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 14:11 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > >> I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling > >> around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bo

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-18 Thread Jon Ingason
2012-10-17 18:37, Joe Zeff skrev: On 10/17/2012 12:31 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: 16.10.2012 23:11, Joe Zeff: I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the list at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/N

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Markus Schönhaber
17.10.2012 20:33, Joe Zeff: > Well, yes, it does, because people are going to want to be able to talk > about it. Do you really think that "I fart cool" is an appropriate name > for a Fedora version? For that matter, was Beefy Miracle really that > appropriate? I already answered that questi

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Fred Erickson
On Wed, 2012-10-17 at 13:06 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 10/17/2012 12:31 PM, Joe Wulf wrote: > > Joe, > > > > I like the sensibility you are suggesting bringing Fedora (names) back to. > > > > R, > > -Joe > > Thanx. My objection to Beefy Miracle is that it looks suggestive. Not > because I mind

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/17/2012 12:31 PM, Joe Wulf wrote: Joe, I like the sensibility you are suggesting bringing Fedora (names) back to. R, -Joe Thanx. My objection to Beefy Miracle is that it looks suggestive. Not because I mind it being suggestive as such, but because I'm afraid that middle-management i

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Wulf
Joe, I like the sensibility you are suggesting bringing Fedora (names) back to. R, -Joe > > From: Joe Zeff >To: Community support for Fedora users >Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 3:02 PM >Subject: Re: Suggestion for F19 > >On 10/17/

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/17/2012 11:50 AM, Fedora User wrote: On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 14:11 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the As the neighborhood cynic let me say that I usually forge

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Fedora User
On Tue, 2012-10-16 at 14:11 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling > around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the As the neighborhood cynic let me say that I usually forget the name of the distro after a week or

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/17/2012 10:56 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: Does that really matter? But if you insist: pronouncing it in a similar way as "I fart cool" should come close, I think. Better ask that someone from Iceland, though... Well, yes, it does, because people are going to want to be able to talk abou

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Tim
Markus Schönhaber: >> Nevertheless my favourite is "Eyjafjallajökull". Granted, it's a stupid >> name for a Linux distribution, but the "Is a..."-explanation is >> absolutely convincing. Joe Zeff: > How do you pronounce it? Dunno, but people around you say "Gesundheit!" as they wipe the front of

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Markus Schönhaber
17.10.2012 18:37, Joe Zeff: > On 10/17/2012 12:31 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: >> 16.10.2012 23:11, Joe Zeff: >> >>> I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling >>> around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the >>> list at >>> https://fedoraproj

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Joe Zeff
On 10/17/2012 12:31 AM, Markus Schönhaber wrote: 16.10.2012 23:11, Joe Zeff: I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the list at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_19#Sugge

Re: Suggestion for F19

2012-10-17 Thread Markus Schönhaber
16.10.2012 23:11, Joe Zeff: > I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling > around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the > list at > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_19#Suggestion_Table Not bad. Nevertheless my fav

Suggestion for F19

2012-10-16 Thread Joe Zeff
I've just joined the Fedora Project and, after a fair amount of fumbling around, managed to add Bernhardt as a suggestion to the bottom of the list at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Name_suggestions_for_Fedora_19#Suggestion_Table As a comment, it wasn't at all obvious that the only way to do t