robbinsc@email.arizona.edu wrote:
Quoting CorvusE <lists@pjsattic.com>:
On Sunday 14 August 2005 7:17 am, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Slightly different from the capitalization issues thread. Also see the recent thread I started on the SuSE Wikipedia article.
Am I crazy to think that this isn't the best forum for this sort of inquiry? I joined this list to keep track of the issues with the openSUSE beta and, to date, I've read far more about the spelling, punctuation, and pronunciation of software, than it's installation and use. Don't get me wrong, it's mildly interesting, but is it to the purpose of the list? --
This IS the opensuse mailing list, so I suppose this would be as good a place as any for this sort of inquiry. It seems to be an ongoing debate - as you said, something about "spelling, punctuation, and pronunciation of software." It's starting to get rather old, but where else would this debate go? Perhaps after the beta phase, these initial issues with pronunciation and the name of the software, etc. will slow down/stop.
-Chris admittly I have not followed this thread too closely, however, I feel I need to ask..
Whats the issue? People seems to argue over SUSE, SuSE, SuSe, suse.... Lets look: michael@nemausa:~> rpm -qa | grep SUSE cups-SUSE-ppds-dat-1.1.20-105 michael@nemausa:~> rpm -qa | grep SuSE desktop-data-SuSE-9.2.42-20 yast2-theme-SuSELinux-2.11.2-3 bootsplash-theme-SuSE-3.1-41 gnome2-SuSE-0.1-454 SuSEfirewall2-3.3-18.2 michael@nemausa:~> rpm -qa | grep SuSe michael@nemausa:~> rpm -qa | grep suse skype-1.1.0.20-suse suse-build-key-1.0-665 susehelp-2005.02.14-5 suse-release-9.3-4 suselinux-userguide_en-9.3-6 susehelp_en-2005.02.14-5 suselinux-adminguide_en-9.3-4.2 michael@nemausa:~> So it would seem even devs at Novell don't know. Ok, so what do the websites say: http://www.novell.com/linux/suse/ All caps... http://www.opensuse.org/index.php/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org again.. all caps. What confuses me I guess, is that this seems to be a massive issue, yet Novell/SUSE can not agree themselves on a standard naming convention. Might be the best policy to use what is on the websites *shrug* but to continue to argue this point would be useless. As shown, SUSE is spelt atleast 3 different ways on SUSE 9.3 Mike