Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian
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
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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