Yum update/bug alert

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 14:30:06 UTC 2012


On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:02:28 +0800, EG (Ed) wrote:

> On 01/05/2012 10:01 PM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:30:01 -0500, RM (Robert) wrote:
> >
> >> Where is it with f16/G3?
> > What is "G3"?
> 
> GNOME 3

Ouch. :)  It's not so cool IMO to invent abbreviations like that
without spelling out the full "GNOME 3" to give context.
I first thought about the PowerPC family, but G3 is used for lots of
other stuff, too. Some blog writers write "GNOME 3" once and save
some typing by using G3 afterwards.


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