Bug 33638

Summary:	name change from Gentoo Linux to something simpler
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	askldas alsdjlkasd <varga.peter>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) <drobbins>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	mholzer
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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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
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-16 14:12:26 UTC

Hurd?

Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-11-16 14:20:07 UTC

gentoo is already take by a file manager

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

Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev

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) gentoo-dev

2004-02-13 06:25:30 UTC

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

Comment 8 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-31 10:39:29 UTC

closing finally