Regarding Get Fedora page

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri May 28 22:05:35 UTC 2010


On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 21:32 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> On 28 May 2010 18:40, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 17:48 +0100, Bill Crawford wrote:
> >> On 28 May 2010 03:54, Mike Fedyk <mfedyk at mikefedyk.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > I agree.  I think the word "edition" is better.  Fedora KE (KDE
> >> > Edition)  Fedora GE (Gnome Edition) etc...
> >>
> >> It is what Ubuntu are calling the Desktop / Netbook / Server
> >> "versions" of the product. Makes sense to use the same.
> >
> > Well, we aren't talking about desktop vs netbook vs server but I guess
> > it's immaterial.
> 
> Uh, good point. Sorry. More like Ubuntu vs Kubuntu etc. Mm. Please
> excuse my momentary burst of idiocy ...

I've actually never liked the Kubuntu, Xubuntu etc. terminology as it
changes the name of the distro and the naive might not realize they're
just Ubuntu wearing makeup :-)

I'm kind of liking Edition. It's certainly preferable to Spin in that it
actually means something to the general public.

poc



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