* Cameron Seader <CSeader@suse.com> [01-26-23 12:54]:
Are we all to think now that we should rename the rolling release of openSUSE to something other than a tumble 😉 or a little less weedy Thats not an off-topic conversation. 🙂
Cameron Seader 208.420.2167
________________________________ From: Carlos E. R. Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2023 10:34 AM To: oS-fctry Subject: Re: I really liked the name of our distro until now
On 2023-01-26 18:23, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:17 PM Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
On 2023-01-26 17:36, Hans-Peter Jansen wrote:
Wow.
As an American who lived in the Midwest for half my life, I've known this and found it very funny. While I encountered tumbleweeds a fair bit, I wasn't a farmer. :)
Most people in the central US (especially farmers) would probably find it unpleasant, though.
I saw some of them crossing the road in the middle plain of Spain (the one of Don Quixote) during a wind storm, and for the first time I realized they were dangerous. I had to dodge them with the car.
I have not heard much of them since... that was 1985 or so.
(Much as I enjoy this talk, we should move to the offtopic mail list if we wish to continue)
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
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you mean like changing GIMP because some believe it to describe something undesirable? and after ~30 years with the same name which is actually an acronym completely different than some people interpretation. Tumbleweed is a good and apt name and is not connotative of something undesirable or disagreeable. And I have lived in the mid-west farming area for >80 years and spent time in the west. tumbleweed are just tumbleweeds and provide something different for the landscape. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet oftc