From minimalist@rocklinux.org Wed Oct 29 10:35:16 2003 Received: from nerd.clifford.at (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nerd.clifford.at (8.12.1/8.12.1/rock) with ESMTP id h9T9ZFej027801; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:35:15 +0100 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by nerd.clifford.at (8.12.1/8.12.9/Submit) id h9T9ZEOL027799; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:35:14 +0100 Received: from keymerkur124.de (ns.keymerkur124.de [62.141.48.6]) by nerd.clifford.at (8.12.1/8.12.1/rock) with ESMTP id h9T9XSej027708 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:33:28 +0100 Received: from GNULOT (pD9EABE11.dip.t-dialin.net [217.234.190.17]) by keymerkur124.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h9T9PO306606 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:25:24 +0100 Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 10:30:05 +0100 From: "Tobias C. Rittweiler" X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.62r) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1912842559.20031029103005@freebits.de> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner-Information: f-prot Mailscanner KeyWeb AG X-MailScanner: Not scanned: please contact your Internet E-Mail Service Provider for details X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: To: Precedence: list X-Sender: minimalist@rocklinux.org Reply-To: rock-linux@rocklinux.org Subject: Re: [rock-linux] Project renaming List-Help: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Owner: X-List-Server: Minimalist v2.2(4.2) (Cocteau) On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 at 1:22:19 AM, Clifford Wolf wrote: > the ROCK 2.1 roadmap contains stuff like integration of Hurd and OpenBSD > kernels to the ROCK build system. So the name "ROCK Linux" wouldn't fit > very well anymore .... > > [put to the beginning] > PS: The topic came up the first time at this years developers meeting and > we wanted to discuss it in detail at 20C3. I'm happy to hear that this was already mentioned. I've been being reluctant to bring it up on the mailinglist because I haven't been sure how it'd be received. > Also "ROCK Linux" fits too well into the common "Foobar Linux" naming > scheme for linux distributions - so it's no wonder that it is so hard to > promote ROCK Linux as "built kit for linux/whatever distributions" instead > of "yet another linux distribution". > > I'd suggest renaming the project to something different. My personal > preference would be something like "Open ROCK". Suggestions, thoughts and > feedback in any form is very welcome. When I made thoughts about it, I came to the conclusion that ROCK Linux may survice, but it should be decapsulated from a "Distribution Build Kit" (so in our terminology it should be a distribution target). Well, I'd speak for just name it Distribution Build Kit. Or, when this makes trouble with things like rock-consulting et al, put a ROCK before it. (Though I don't think a rock is a very good metapher for a DBK. :-P) -- tcr (tcr@freebits.de) ``Ho chresim'eidos uch ho poll'eidos sophos'' -- To unsubscribe from this list: send a mail with the subject "unsubscribe rock-linux" to . For more information about ROCK Linux have a look at .