On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 13:34 +0200, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > giving a name to the particular release of a distro has a > social/emotional character, like giving a name to a newborn child. It > is only natural that developers are emotionally attached to their > latest "creation", and want to give it a name, a form of personal > touch. Likewise for the naming of other things, such as naming computers on the network. I would put a bit of thought into mine, rather than just calling it "server." Windows machines tended to be given hateful names from mythology. ;-) e.g. We called a mail server Pandora, after Pandora's Box, where all the evil in the world supposedly came from. It seemed appropriate at the time, and still does. And I sent one PC back to its owner, who was forever killing it, named Lazarus. > > As for criticizing the idea, they should first think if they > would be willing to name their newborn son as > "Child-25/07/2012-male", I am not a number... ;-) (That'll probably go right over the heads of many list members.) -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
