On Wed, 2021-03-10 at 10:21 -0500, Ben Cotton wrote: > ...[snip] > From the Community Blog post[1]: > > > Why not use “Fedora GNU+Linux” or some similar name? We want to be > > easy to say. The more words we add, the harder that is. And while > > GNU is an important part of Fedora Linux, there are many other > > packages that make Fedora Linux what it is. “Linux” is, for better > > or worse, the commonly-understood phrasing, so let’s just use that. > > [1] > https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/fedora-is-a-community-fedora-linux-is-our-os/ I would have to agree with Matthew and Ben regarding the name. Fedora began as a collection of like minded individuals who took the effort to establish the four foudation prinicpals before assembling a working distribution which itself is focused around FLOSS and is very specific and firm about licensing requirements WRT what is allowed to ship as part of the official distro. This Fedora community took on a greater role than merely a linux distirbution, often times having a direct impact on the greater linux community in the process. For my part, it is in my own thoughts that I inherently differentiate between the distro and some other aspect of the Fedora Project, when using the same name for different aspects of Fedora Project/Community/Magazine/Discussion/etc... So calling the distro, in it's many official releases, Fedora-Linux at the code base level, so the ID that packages/apps should be using to verify OS, is just a programatic change that will have little to no affect in user level usage, and minimal affect for dev's. Naming things is what people do, and by clearly naming things we can easier differentiate between the various aspects of what constitutes the Fedora Ecosystem. Just my two cents worth. Stephen _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
