Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 03:13:58 -0800 From: Dave Yost <Dave@Yost.com> To: eT <eT@KryptoKom.DE> Cc: FreeBSD Chat <freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Advocacy <freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: what's in a name? Message-ID: <v0410440cb302c68f6eb3@[205.219.69.138]> In-Reply-To: <36DD15A7.DB479EDB@kryptokom.de>
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At 11:57 AM +0100 1999-03-03, eT wrote:
> you know, this whole lin*x thing has me baffled. ... i am wondering
> why linux has a larger user/suport base in the first place? could it be that
> the word linux just 'sounds' more like a friendly operating system than
> FreeBSD? and that because of this new users are more susceptible to
> using it?
Yes!
Linux is warm and fuzzy, like Linus, the kid with the fuzzy blanket. FreeBSD is techie and acrinomious, acronymical. (Yes, I know, there will be a chorus of fans who like it to sound techie.) And it sounds like freebie, which has the connotation of el cheapo marketing.
> is linux perhaps a more 'marketable' name than FreeBSD?
Absolutely.
> why not let's change the name FreeBSD to some variant
> of linux? i agree that the time for advocacy has come upon us more
> than ever before!
schroedix?
snoopix?
peanix? (this one makes me laugh)
blankie?
blankix?
fuzzix?
paulinx?
VitaminCeex?
warmvm?
steamingvm?
weenix?
geex?
geexooks?
wannabeex?
berx? (not good for the U.K. -- well, it would make for a good book title:
berx for Berks.)
;-)
I'm getting carried away...
But seriously, there's a totally great name out there waiting to be discovered.
Do you think Zip drives would have caught on as well if they had been called Bernoulli III? or FloppyXYZ?
Dave
Too much crazed wordplay for one night...
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