On Monday 30 November 2009 06:28:24 Remy Marquis wrote:
The rules, as I understand it are:
- it is spelled openSUSE (One of the greatest distributions around is openSUSE.)
- Except when beginning a sentence, then it is capitalized. (OpenSUSE isn't just one of the greatest distributions, it's the best!)
If we vary yet again specifically for the wiki, that's just more confusing.
I thin that I remember having seen a mail from Andreas Jaeger explaining that "openSUSE" should be spelled "openSUSE" in any cases, but I can't find it again... Yes, openSUSE is a brand and capitalization doesn't change in any case. M Moreover, as a *trademark*, openSUSE should have an invariable typo. A good example is the www.o.o frontpage :
"openSUSE is a free and Linux-based operating system for your PC, Laptop or Server. You can surf the web, manage your e-mails and photos, do office work, play videos or music and have a lot of fun!"
You can also have a look at the official openSUSE reference manual (page 19)
"Remote Installation openSUSE® can be installed in several different ways. As well as the usual media in- stallation covered in Chapter 1, Installation with YaST (↑Start-Up), you can choose[...]"
another example (page 86)
"WARNING: Trusting External Software Sources Before adding external software repositories to your list of repositories, make sure this repository can be trusted. openSUSE is not responsible for any potential problems arising from software installed from third-party software repositories."
Imho, the actual pages titled "OpenSUSE" and not "openSUSE" in the wiki are misspelled, mostly because it's not possible to write a lowercase title by default with MediaWiki. I tried to apply the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Lowercase template to the main wiki, but was unable to have it working correctly.
R.
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