On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Björn Persson wrote: > If we're going to name the distribution after some of its components, > why stop at one or two? ... > It's better to give the whole distribution its own name, and not name > it after any of its components. Fedora is a software distribution. It > contains Linux, many GNU components, RPM, MariaDB, Libreoffice and lots > of other things, but its name is "Fedora". Or call it "Fedora Software > Distribution" or anything else that doesn't single out any of the > components. That approach seems to minimize the political fighting. FreeBSD is just FreeBSD and BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution. Maybe we should use Fedora Software Distribution. But I rather like just plain "Fedora".
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