Fedora naming proposal

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Tue Jul 31 15:34:12 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 14:11 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Lynn Dixon <boodaddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > That makes perfect sense! Matching the release number with the atomic number
> > is a great idea.
> > So, here's my updated name suggestions:
> > Fedora 18 Agile Argon
> > Fedora 19 Perfect Potassium
> 
> Why are you adding Agile and Perfect to the front of the names? It
> makes it sound like some other distribution. Why not just Argon or
> Potassium?

*IANAL ALERT*

I think there's an advantage to added an adjective to the front in that
it makes it less likely there's a trademark conflict.

~m



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