Bug 33638 – name change from Gentoo Linux to something simpler

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description askldas alsdjlkasd 2003-11-16 14:06:22 UTC]

Gentoo Linux is an operating system that runs on many architectures and in the
future, it would be nice to have it ported to kernels other than Linux, too.
But then, it would be irrelevant to include "Linux" in it's name.
So, please consider renaming the whole project simply to Gentoo, which is a cool
name on it's own anyways.

Reproducible: Sometimes
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[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2003-11-16 14:12:26 UTC]

Hurd?

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-11-16 14:20:07 UTC]

gentoo is already take by a file manager

http://freshmeat.net/projects/gentoo/

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2003-11-16 14:51:42 UTC]

let drobs sort it out

[Comment 4 askldas alsdjlkasd 2003-11-22 13:59:47 UTC]

Oh! Really, Gentoo is already something else :-(
But what if you port Gentoo Linux to the FreeBSD or Hurd/L4 kernel for example?
Will it be called Gentoo Linux/FreeBSD then?

[Comment 5 askldas alsdjlkasd 2003-12-01 05:43:08 UTC]

maybe it would be okay to rename Gentoo Linux to simply Gentoo/Linux.
then the Darwin port can be called Gentoo/Darwin, for instance

[Comment 6 askldas alsdjlkasd 2003-12-28 19:06:22 UTC]

it seems that the NetBSD port of Gentoo is here!
so this is quite an urgent issue...
let's call the Linux port Gentoo/Linux, the
NetBSD port Gentoo/NetBSD! straightforward,
and follows Debian habits. okay?

[Comment 7 Sergey Kuleshov (RETIRED) 2004-02-13 06:25:30 UTC]

Hmm, I like the last suggestion. And then we have Gentoo/Windows :)

[Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2004-03-31 10:39:29 UTC]

closing finally