[opensuse-factory] name of the opensuse distribution
I wont revive a troll nor contest the new openSUSE name. But we have an history and a wiki and we must take care of all that stuff. How will we call the distribution in the wiki pages? what if we speak of 9.3 ? what if we speak of all of them? I propose here what could be written in the wiki tomorrow (or so) I think we could say that "openSUSE" is now the official name _of all_ the suse distributions whatever they are. but... * for the pre-10.2, the name SUSE Linux is acceptable (and can be written as you like, capitalized or not, SuSE or SUSE) * If it's not obvious by the context that the subject is the distribution itself (it could be the wiki or the project) or if somebody want to insist on our origin, one can add the word "Linux" to openSUSE, that is speak of "openSUSE Linux" * at the beginning of a sentence, one can write OpenSUSE, with a capitalised "O" of course all this is obvious, but seen the discussion we had here, better make sure before fixing the wiki :-) jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
On Thursday 10 August 2006 18:27, jdd wrote:
I wont revive a troll nor contest the new openSUSE name. But we have an history and a wiki and we must take care of all that stuff.
How will we call the distribution in the wiki pages? what if we speak of 9.3 ? what if we speak of all of them? 9.3 was called SUSE Linux and still is
I propose here what could be written in the wiki tomorrow (or so)
I think we could say that "openSUSE" is now the official name _of all_ the suse distributions whatever they are. but...
* for the pre-10.2, the name SUSE Linux is acceptable (and can be written as you like, capitalized or not, SuSE or SUSE) we should give a clear direction - and this is openSUSE There will be different writing anyway but we shouldn't start with it.
* If it's not obvious by the context that the subject is the distribution itself (it could be the wiki or the project) or if somebody want to insist on our origin, one can add the word "Linux" to openSUSE, that is speak of "openSUSE Linux" same as above - openSUSE
* at the beginning of a sentence, one can write OpenSUSE, with a capitalised "O" That's something for a brand expert. I'd say again it's openSUSE regardless where.
Michael
of course all this is obvious, but seen the discussion we had here, better make sure before fixing the wiki :-)
jdd
Michael Loeffler a écrit :
* for the pre-10.2, the name SUSE Linux is acceptable (and can be written as you like, capitalized or not, SuSE or SUSE) we should give a clear direction - and this is openSUSE There will be different writing anyway but we shouldn't start with it.
by the way these writings are already here and it's mostly why I made this proposal. there are SUSE Linux anywhere in the wiki, beginning with the front page :-) and it could be seen as normal than any distribution keep the name it has got at birth :-)
same as above - openSUSE
but openSUSE windows or openSUSE BSD? in some context Linux is the central point. I know all this seems a bit unreal (personally, I don't really bother of the name), but I have seen many flames with no more substance and it should be nice to have a central point in the wiki jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
I really wish I knew why so much of the Linux community has a problem with names and having to name every free project with the words "free" or "open" or even "oss" in them. Or even so many KDE and GNOME apps that feel the need to put "Ks" and "Gs" in front of them. Why can't we just keep the suse name? Is it really that difficult to keep everything suse but the domain name which DESCRIBES the project? I respected SUSE for keeping the original name instead of confusing users (which i'll bit, opensuse.org site did kinda confuse me at first but when u realize its a project to create the SUSE distribution..it makes sense). I know there's no way to change this now but it sure would be nice if Novell would reconsider, and other projects with something worth making reconside their cheap naming schemes and come up with a catchy name. On 8/11/06, jdd <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Michael Loeffler a écrit :
* for the pre-10.2, the name SUSE Linux is acceptable (and can be written as you like, capitalized or not, SuSE or SUSE) we should give a clear direction - and this is openSUSE There will be different writing anyway but we shouldn't start with it.
by the way these writings are already here and it's mostly why I made this proposal. there are SUSE Linux anywhere in the wiki, beginning with the front page :-) and it could be seen as normal than any distribution keep the name it has got at birth :-)
same as above - openSUSE
but openSUSE windows or openSUSE BSD? in some context Linux is the central point.
I know all this seems a bit unreal (personally, I don't really bother of the name), but I have seen many flames with no more substance and it should be nice to have a central point in the wiki
jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
-- Steve
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