Fedora naming proposal based on Periodic Table of Elements

Máirín Duffy duffy at fedoraproject.org
Thu Oct 11 17:54:00 UTC 2012


On Thu, 2012-10-11 at 12:05 -0500, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Lynn Dixon <boodaddy at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I completely agree with Máirín.  Beefy Miracle and Spherical Cow just sounds
> > silly to me.  I would hate to see the Fedora status quo become silly, and
> > ridiculed by the Linux community.
> 
> I think that arguing incessantly about the naming process opens Fedora
> up to more ridicule than the names it has produced.
> 
> While I've heard folks groan about the Fedora names, I don't think
> I've ever heard anyone "ridicule" Fedora for its names.

See the post I just made.

~m



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