Re: [gentoo-user] Re: From where the word 'gentoo' came?

[Alan E. Davis]

Actually, the full nomenclatural information is:

*Pygoscelis papua* (J.R.
Forster<http://species.wikimedia.org/wiki/J.R._Forster>,
1781).  So there is a publication by J. R. Forster in 1781, describing this
penguin.

Alan

On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@×××××.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth (possibly nothing), from Wikipedia:
>
> The application of *Gentoo* to the penguin is unclear, according to the *
> OED <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OED>*, which reports that *Gentoo* was
> an Anglo-Indian term, used as early as 1638 to distinguish Hindus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindu>in India from Muslims, the English term originating in Portuguese
> *gentio* (compare "gentile <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile>"); in
> the twentieth century the term came to be regarded as derogatory<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derogatory>
> .
>
> This needs to be followed up.  One interesting publication would be
>
> @article{calaby1999european,
>   title={The European Discovery and Scientific Description of Australian Birds.},
>   author={Calaby, JH},
>   journal={Historical Records of Australian Science},
>   volume={12},
>   number={3},
>   pages={313--329},
>   year={1999},
>   publisher={CSIRO}
> }
>
> to which I do not have access.  However, this investigation is not over.  The scientific name of the Gentoo Penguin is *Pygoscelis papua. It should not be difficult to find the original description?*
>
>
> Alan Davis
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2011 04:59 PM, Joshua Murphy wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 7:32 AM, LinuxIsOne<reallife@hmamail.**com<reallife@×××××××.com>>
>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 5:58 PM, Daniel Troeder<daniel@×××××××××.com>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  Also (ir)relevant: bug report concerning the mascot Larry the cow:
>>>>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_**bug.cgi?id=27727<https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> But your links shows untrusted connection in my browser!
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That would likely be because cacert.org isn't a "trusted' authority by
>>> default and that is the issuer for B.G.O., making the certificate
>>> throw up a red flag if you choose not to add cacert.org to your
>>> trusted authorities.
>>>
>>
>> What sucks is that you can't even get rid of the warnings even if you
>> accept and add the cert to Firefox.  Every time you click on an attachment
>> in a bug, you get presented with a warning dialog again, and again, and
>> again, and again, until you get mad and start shooting bunnies.  That's
>> because the domain changes with attachments (for some reason, b.g.o. uses
>> subdomains instead of URLs to link to attachments.)
>>
>> So it's either add cacert.org to your trusted authorities, or live in
>> hell when browsing b.g.o.  IMO that's just stupid.  I want to trust just
>> b.g.o, not every site out there that has a cacert certificate.  Stupid.
>>  Just stupid.
>>
>>
>>
>