[Mageia-discuss] New name for cooker

Tue Sep 21 16:56:02 CEST 2010

Le 21/09/2010 16:53, Maât a écrit :
+> Le 21/09/2010 09:41, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
+>   
+>> Hi,
+>>
+>> I am in charge of finding the replacement name for "cooker", eg the
+>> development version of Mageia.
+>>
+>> Like the for the distribution, the name have to be short, must not be an
+>> insult any of 6000 know languages in the universe and must not refer to
+>> another distribution to avoid mistake.
+>>
+>>   
+>>     
+> Hi,
+>
+> Perhaps something very simple can fit :
+>
+> As many magic potions use roots as base ingredients mixed with many
+> ph34rsome others we could just use "root" or "root" :)
+>   
+"root" or "roots" (sorry :-/)
+
+> The magic part with that would be obvious :)
+>
+> This would also be an allusion to linux superadmin account name
+>
+> But also "root" would be the base on which several stable branches
+> rely... a nourishing base like roots bring sap to branches in trees...
+> so also a symbol of life and vigour...
+>
+> (Tree symbology is also very important in white magic)
+>
+> This is short... i hope this is not and insult in the 6000 known
+> languages in the universe and while this is used in every Unix, BSD and
+> Linuxes i think nobody use it as a name yet...
+>
+> How about that ?
+>
+> Maât
+>   
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