jdd wrote:
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A colleague of mine and I just ordered 7,500 DVD's copies of the 10.1 release of openSUSE. Novell does hand them out freely, but mostly at events. We also make openSUSE freely available for download from openSUSE.org.
we definitively need to rethink the SUSE Linux versus opensuse linux naming...
(TED is a Provo SE)
jdd
It was mentioned before, when I was splitting a hair, why openSUSE for both. It is common to use as little names as possible. That is how naming works to support our limited memory. Not everyone is involved in computing and Linux to be willing to pay attention to difference between SUSE Linux and openSUSE community. Why they remember openSUSE and not SUSE Linux. Because the web address they have to remember if they want to come back, or tell anybody where to go, the rest is not important, specially newcomers that have no emotional binds to any previous name. They don't see the difference, and are surprised with old S.u.S.E. guys reaction and reminder that there is no openSUSE Linux. Sure there is. Go to www.opensuse.org and download it. Please, don't complain about this, I am one of the old guard, and I'm not very pleased with permanent changes of the name: S.u.S.E. , than SuSE, than SUSE. Once it was changed from original, to make typing easier, it was still understandable SuSE, just dots removed, but then to SUSE, why not instantly to Suse. Than, why this with not capitalized first letter of openSUSE instead of OpenSUSE (or OpenSuse). It makes trouble in almost any language that has no article making possible to start with "The openSUSE ...", "Die openSUSE ..." etc. For instance in ancient Latin ;-) Proper start of sentence would be "OpenSUSE ...", but then the name is openSUSE. How to translate the Welcome page to Latin? Even the mediawiki software doesn't accept that :-) but it doesn't ask either, it is OpenSUSE, end of story. It is just matter of time when someone with power to make decision will cut the Gordian Knot and make it one name. What would be that? Well my guess is that running another name that would be different than community name, pardon web page name, will mean status quo. I'm just asking mercy for languages that have no ability to insert something before name when starting the sentence, and make it OpenSUSE like OpenOffice. BTW, on openSUSE everything is openSUSE except the distribution name. -- Regards, Rajko. Visit http://en.opensuse.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-help@opensuse.org