New year, new name!

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi, Guix!

As you know, we’ve been having this lengthy discussion about what to
call the Guix-based standalone distro.  RMS and others have argued that
we can’t reasonably call it “the GNU system”, and many people have
proposed alternative names.

Long story short, I’m tempted to refer to the standalone distro as
“Guixotic”.  The name was proposed by RMS; it’s a play on words that
makes fun of criticisms that have depicted the GNU project as
“quixotic”.  And it has the advantage of starting with “Guix”.  (The
other name that I liked is “Geist”, which someone proposed on IRC, but
it lacks those traits.)

As I see it, we would change the baseline on the Guix logo to, say,
“dependable, hackable, liberating”.  And we could have an alternative
logo with “otic” appended¹, and with a different baseline, say, “GNU’s
reference distribution”.  (I count on Nikita or Felipe for this.  ;-))

Thoughts?

Ludo’.

¹ Bonus points to anyone who comes up with a stylized gnuish Quixote.  :-)

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