Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

["Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>]

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For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia:

The application of *Gentoo* to the penguin is unclear, according to
the *OED<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED>
*, which reports that *Gentoo* was an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as
1638 to distinguish Hindus <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu> in India
from Muslims, the English term originating in Portuguese *gentio* (compare "
gentile <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile>"); in the twentieth century
the term came to be regarded as
derogatory<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derogatory>
.

This needs to be followed up.  One interesting publication would be

@article{calaby1999european,
  title={The European Discovery and Scientific Description of
Australian Birds.},
  author={Calaby, JH},
  journal={Historical Records of Australian Science},
  volume={12},
  number={3},
  pages={313--329},
  year={1999},
  publisher={CSIRO}
}

to which I do not have access.  However, this investigation is not
over.  The scientific name of the Gentoo Penguin is *Pygoscelis papua.
It should not be difficult to find the original description?*

Alan Davis


On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de> wrote:

> On 12/21/2011 04:59 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, LinuxIsOne<reallife@hmamail.**com<reallife@hmamail.com>>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder<daniel@admin-box.com>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow:
>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=27727<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727>
>>>>
>>>
>>> But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser!
>>>
>>>
>> That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by
>> default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate
>> throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your
>> trusted authorities.
>>
>
> What sucks is that you can't even get rid of the warnings even if you
> accept and add the cert to Firefox.  Every time you click on an attachment
> in a bug, you get presented with a warning dialog again, and again, and
> again, and again, until you get mad and start shooting bunnies.  That's
> because the domain changes with attachments (for some reason, b.g.o. uses
> subdomains instead of URLs to link to attachments.)
>
> So it's either add cacert.org to your trusted authorities, or live in
> hell when browsing b.g.o.  IMO that's just stupid.  I want to trust just
> b.g.o, not every site out there that has a cacert certificate.  Stupid.
>  Just stupid.
>
>
>

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