Why not drop the Core from Fedora Core?

[Thiago Vinhas de Moraes]

Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 17:11 -0500, Paul Iadonisi escreveu:
> On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 16:08, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > So, why not Fedora System or Fedora OS? As Fedora should be an
> > international operating system, it's important to use a terminology that
> > non-american and non-britsh people can understand. For me, personally,
> > the word Core can be a lot of things, but not a operating system.
> 
>   Oh, come on now.  Aren't we picking at nits?  I remember the
> discussion about the name when it was first chosen and it was brought up
> that the word 'fedora' meant something entirely different in some
> language (I can't remember which one).
>   It's just a name, and it's been around for what, over six months now? 
> If people don't know what it is, they'll learn.

I'm not talking about the name Fedora, but the Core. And FYI, Fedora
looks like "bad smell" in portuguese.