So, what's in a name... Too many Puppys?
Posted: Fri 22 Apr 2016, 06:30
Hello, Any...
Have you noticed that in various forums and reviews and mentions Puppy Linuxes (Linii?) are being referred to as PUPPY Linux - that is, ALL other versions, strains, roll-your-own-distros, puplets(??), etc are ALSO being referred to as PUPPY?
Then have you noticed that UBUNTU Linux is being referred to as UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, LUBUNTU, XUBUNTU, MABUNTU, etc., and so on, etc.
Same each with DEBIAN, FEDORA, ARCH, SLACK, and others. They get their spins spun, but all the PUPPY's are just puppies (ie not grown up yet?).
One distro site has PUPPY Linux on their list but many others are not spun out. For instance there I did a search on distros based on "PUPPY" and came up with 4 :- PUPPY (ie itself); SIMPLICITY; LEGACYOS; TOUTOU. Is that really the full extent of spin-offs and so on?
Gonna do anything 'bout that?
For me Puppy Linux 6 (Tahr), should have been called TAHRPUP-6 (or some such) - then they can't just hang "PUPPY" around it's neck.
Think?
Regards,
aka boombaby
Have you noticed that in various forums and reviews and mentions Puppy Linuxes (Linii?) are being referred to as PUPPY Linux - that is, ALL other versions, strains, roll-your-own-distros, puplets(??), etc are ALSO being referred to as PUPPY?
Then have you noticed that UBUNTU Linux is being referred to as UBUNTU, KUBUNTU, LUBUNTU, XUBUNTU, MABUNTU, etc., and so on, etc.
Same each with DEBIAN, FEDORA, ARCH, SLACK, and others. They get their spins spun, but all the PUPPY's are just puppies (ie not grown up yet?).
One distro site has PUPPY Linux on their list but many others are not spun out. For instance there I did a search on distros based on "PUPPY" and came up with 4 :- PUPPY (ie itself); SIMPLICITY; LEGACYOS; TOUTOU. Is that really the full extent of spin-offs and so on?
Gonna do anything 'bout that?
For me Puppy Linux 6 (Tahr), should have been called TAHRPUP-6 (or some such) - then they can't just hang "PUPPY" around it's neck.
Think?
Regards,
aka boombaby