Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2003 04:16:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: leafy <leafy@leafy.idv.tw> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers Message-ID: <3EE5BDF9.98246F7B@mindspring.com> References: <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> <20030610075617.GA7256@chihiro.leafy.idv.tw>
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leafy wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 12:47:05AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > > NetWare and Oracle. > > We can always follow Sun's path. Call the software FreeBSD II, which > is FreeBSD 5.2, also known as FreeBSDOS 2.2... I suppose we could always rename the OS after the theme song for the Carl Sagan series "Cosmos", as composed by Isao Tomita after being inspired by the Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Award-winning Russian movie adaptation by director Andrei Tarkovsky of the novel by the Polish author and playwrite Stanislaw Lem. Or we could make fun of Sun for picking that name like Apple did, and go straight for "BHA"... We could always call it "Ijon Tichy", or "Trurl", which is almost a computer reference, given that title. Personally, I'd vote for "Pirx"; it has that all-important "X" on the end, and it's an equally obscure Lem reference. If you really wanted to be out there, though, there's nothing better than "The machine which could make anything, so long as it started with the letter N". That, or "Steelypips", though "Trurl" does have "URL" in it... -- Terry
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