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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: F35 Change: "Fedora Linux" in /etc/os-release
From:       Chuck Anderson <cra () alum ! wpi ! edu>
Date:       2021-03-11 4:38:01
Message-ID: 20210311043801.vngyo7r5s6gvcnca () gauge ! lan
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On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 01:26:55PM +0100, Bj=F6rn Persson wrote:
> If we're going to name the distribution after some of its components,
> why stop at one or two?
=2E..

> It's better to give the whole distribution its own name, and not name
> it after any of its components. Fedora is a software distribution. It
> contains Linux, many GNU components, RPM, MariaDB, Libreoffice and lots
> of other things, but its name is "Fedora". Or call it "Fedora Software
> Distribution" or anything else that doesn't single out any of the
> components. That approach seems to minimize the political fighting.

FreeBSD is just FreeBSD and BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution.

Maybe we should use Fedora Software Distribution.  But I rather like
just plain "Fedora".

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