Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:02:13PM -0500, Jim Penny wrote: > > Unfortunately, I doubt that the Romans had a word for penguin, so we > > cannot date "from the founding of the penguin". > > Somebody look up if there's a latin word for gnu, then :) That's not the same date, though. The founding of the penguin would presumably be the date that Linus Torvalds publicly released the first Linux kernel (c. 1992); the founding of the gnu would be when RMS started the GNU project in 1984. Since Debian officially favors RMS's "GNU/Linux" name, the gnu is probably the more relevant one for our purposes. The common scientific genus/species name for the gnu is probably the best Latin name for that creature. Craig
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