From: wes chow <wes@woahnelly.net>
To: Greg Corcoran <gregc@spidex.com>
Cc: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@cs.kun.nl>,
Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de>,
"gentoo-dev@gentoo.org" <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proper Gentoo Name (was License criteria for Gentoo)
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:01:54 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209250922120.8808-100000@hitchcock.woahnelly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1032955091.21768.8.camel@fasty.spidex.com>
That should be "QED" if and only if the naming scheme the car industry has
chosen is indeed the correct thing to do.
The car analogy isn't so useful becuase it's important that we do what's
right, not that we do what already has a precedent. Gentoo is Portage.
Portage needs GNU utilities like a fish needs a bicycle.
Wes
On 25 Sep 2002, Greg Corcoran wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 04:35, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > To take this into the car analogies.
> >
> > The car called Linux or Gnu linux
> > Engine: made by Linus Torvalds & co. branded linux
> > Gearbox: made by FSF branded glibc
> > and so on with other pieces ...
>
> Excellent points!
>
> This means that the Integrators (the Gentoo developers) are really
> building the OS from parts from different suppliers.
>
> These parts are put together as defined by the "system" profile. This is
> the base OS.
>
> QED the proper name is:
>
> Gentoo(TM) OS
>
> Greg
>
>
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Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-09-22 15:55 [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo Richard Stallman
2002-09-22 21:34 ` Mikko Moilanen
2002-09-22 21:51 ` Peter Ruskin
2002-09-24 17:05 ` Mikko Moilanen
2002-09-22 21:59 ` Evan Read
2002-09-22 22:28 ` Christian Axelsson
2002-09-23 1:21 ` mike
2002-09-23 4:00 ` Mark Bainter
2002-09-24 10:19 ` Thomas M. Beaudry
2002-09-24 10:42 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 12:24 ` Mark Bainter
2002-09-24 13:50 ` Christophe Vanfleteren
2002-09-24 14:23 ` Mark Bainter
2002-09-24 14:49 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-23 4:20 ` Greg Corcoran
2002-09-23 0:42 ` Mark Guertin
2002-09-23 7:25 ` Evan Read
2002-09-24 10:30 ` Thomas M. Beaudry
2002-09-24 10:49 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 11:37 ` Kevyn Shortell
2002-09-24 12:03 ` Cal Evans
2002-09-24 12:35 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 14:19 ` Mark Bainter
2002-09-24 14:49 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 15:15 ` Mark Bainter
2002-09-24 16:10 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 16:24 ` Mikko Moilanen
2018-09-25 10:03 ` Karan
2002-09-25 0:58 ` [gentoo-dev] ANN: Proposed Fix for Gentoo (GNU/)Linux Issue Drew Whittle
2002-09-25 7:08 ` [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo Henti Smith
2002-09-25 10:12 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 22:27 ` Greg Corcoran
2002-09-24 22:50 ` Kevyn Shortell
2002-09-25 5:56 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 6:33 ` Kevyn Shortell
2002-09-25 10:09 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-26 0:12 ` Greg Corcoran
2002-09-25 10:03 ` Giulio Eulisse
2002-09-25 8:47 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 10:21 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 11:35 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 11:58 ` [gentoo-dev] Proper Gentoo Name (was License criteria for Gentoo) Greg Corcoran
2002-09-25 12:12 ` Mark Bainter
2002-09-25 12:26 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 13:04 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 13:44 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 14:29 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 18:37 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 14:09 ` [gentoo-dev] /usr/portage/distfiles/ name collisions Chris Bainbridge
2002-09-25 14:29 ` Bart Verwilst
2002-09-25 14:55 ` Chris Bainbridge
2002-09-25 12:53 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: Proper Gentoo Name (was License criteria for Gentoo) Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 13:38 ` Greg Corcoran
2002-09-25 14:01 ` wes chow [this message]
2002-09-25 14:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 14:09 ` wes chow
2002-09-25 19:07 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-26 1:45 ` Evan Read
2002-09-25 19:05 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 19:35 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-26 7:21 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-25 19:57 ` wes chow
2002-09-26 7:23 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-26 14:32 ` Mark Guertin
2002-09-26 18:25 ` Paul de Vrieze
2002-09-23 7:47 ` [gentoo-dev] License criteria for Gentoo Benj
2002-09-23 13:21 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-24 19:53 ` Spider
2002-09-24 21:03 ` Kevyn Shortell
2002-09-24 22:29 ` Moritz Schulte
2002-09-25 0:21 ` Ryan Shaw
2002-09-25 0:29 ` Kevyn Shortell
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