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From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 10:02:26
Message-Id: 20060106095920.GA19628@cerberus.oppresses.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 01:37:45AM -0700, Duncan wrote:
2 >
3 > What word to use in place of "distribution", when one wants to include the
4 > BSDs and other "non-distributions" as well, other than
5 > Linux/BSD[/*ix]][/OSX], or simply *ix... *IS* there such a term?
6 >
7
8 Well we could say "meta operating system" if we wanted to be really
9 stupid, or we could just admit that we don't have to make a bunch of
10 anal terminology nerds happy and continue on using sane naming
11
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13 Jon Portnoy
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for January Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>