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On Friday 26 January 2007 15:44, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> So Ubuntu, SUSE, RedHat, Gentoo, Mandrake really hurt?

those are operating systems, not applications and the use case is therefore=
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completely different

(and aside from Red Hat, yes, they all suffer from a lack of name recogniti=
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SUSE is fixing this ...)

> > kimdaba used to be a favourite example of mine, but they fixed that: now
> > it's kphotoalbum. much better.
>
> But claims a pretty general term. How to name another one? KPhotoalbum 2?

digikam.

> > look at gnomemeeting which is now ekiga for an example in the reverse
> > direction.
>
> GnomeMeeting only worked for those who know MS NetMeeting, or?

it also works for anyone who knows what the word "meeting" means. ekiga hel=
ps=20
exactly no one and because there's no mnemonic relationship, it doesn't mak=
e=20
it very easy to remember. using apps on linux is often like learning a whol=
e=20
new language because we don't leverage the words people are used to using.=
=20
(and yes, that's fairly english-centric)

> > ah, definitive answers ;)
>
> Difficult area, don't want to outplay Tobias...

hehe..

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