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openSUSE 11.2 Fichte will fight Koalas and Spartans From the 'what's in a name' files:Novell's openSUSE community manager Joe Brockmeier just announced that that codename for the upcoming openSUSE 11.2 release is Fichte. Fichte was a famous German philosopher and idealist. Linux distro naming is something that has become more interesting in recent years, thanks in no small part to the wacky names that come from Ubuntu. So what we have shaping up in the next round of Linux distribution releases is a German Philosopher (openSUSE 11.2) squaring off against a Koala (Ubuntu) and the Spartan King Leonidas (Red Hat Fedora 11). Do names say a lot about the different distros themselves? Well let's try this out as a thought experiment shall we? With Fichte, openSUSE is the German intellectual. Thoughtful and deep if not verbose.Truth is of course since all three distros share so much in terms of underlying code and shared open source applications there are many similarities between them. But still, the different names are differentiators and each distro is truly a different animal and/or historical figure. 0 TrackBacksListed below are links to blogs that reference this entry: openSUSE 11.2 Fichte will fight Koalas and Spartans. TrackBack URL for this entry: https://swarm.jupitermedia.com/mt-tb.cgi/7580 6 CommentsLeave a comment |
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You are absolutely right. Fichte doesn't ficht Windows it fichts Koalas and Spartans.
I think it's a great name for a german distro, although i think there aren't many german that know Fichte. I really appreciate a german distro that's named after a german thinker...i think i'll give it a try
Is SUSE now still a German distro or, since Novell bought them, have they become a Utahn distro?
Sean Michael Kerner said:
"openSUSE 11.2 Fichte will fight Koalas and Spartans"
"With Fichte, openSUSE is the German intellectual. Thoughtful and deep if not verbose."
corneliu said:
"You are absolutely right. Fichte doesn't ficht Windows it fichts Koalas and Spartans."
Does most of the audience even get these puns: Fichte (actually originally 'spruce tree') and ficht 'fights' (from the verb fechten)? Hu!
But Fichte was a raving anti-Semitie. Isn't it a politcal faux pas to name German operating system after such a person? people with a conscience might object.
Cecily: Fichte a raving anti-semite? Never heard that one before. You want to back that up. Or do you just enjoy brief sensations of moral superiority based on uncritically accepting someone's (probably not very well researched) opinion?