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Date:      Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:32:26 +0100
From:      Paul Robinson <paul@iconoplex.co.uk>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Version Release numbers
Message-ID:  <20030610113226.GL30092@iconoplex.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <3EE5BDF9.98246F7B@mindspring.com>
References:  <000901c32eeb$4b15d4a0$0200000a@fireball> <20030610075617.GA7256@chihiro.leafy.idv.tw> <3EE5BDF9.98246F7B@mindspring.com>

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On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 04:16:09AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:

> 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...

Unfortunately, all the good domain names around pirx, trurl and steelypips 
are gone.

Could you consider "L33tOS" for which the .org is still available? I'd also 
like the handbook re-written in l33t 0-d4y w4R3z speak as well please.

Or we could be the entithesis of Darwin and change the name to RedneckOS. 
It's be popular in the Bible belt.

-- 
Paul Robinson



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