Re: What to call Guix

[Olaf Buddenhagen]

Hi,

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 05:19:54AM -0600, Joshua S. Grant wrote:

> http://libreplanet.org/wiki/Group:Guix/Suggested_Distro_Names
> 
> Curious to what your feelings would be on some of these that haven't
> been talked about much if at all and/or if any of these would make
> decent alternatives for "Guixotic'.  

Out of this list, "GNU DAWN" (GNU Distribution Awaiting a Name) is my
clear favourite. It's extra clever with both the funny expansion of DAWN
itself (especially funny if it still carries that name twenty years from
now ;-) ), as well as the well established wordplay with GNU/new. The
word(s) it forms carry a very nice meaning too: invoking a pleasent
mental picture in itself; and moreover in a way indeed quite fitting for
the role in the GNU project :-)

Some of the others (including Guixotic) are quite clever/funny too, but
generally more awkward in various ways, and/or less interesting in the
long run IMHO...

-antrik-