Comment 2VDX Re: One Problem

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Debian is forked. Meet Devuan

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One Problem (Score: 3, Insightful)

by venkman@pipedot.org on 2014-11-28 21:04 (#2VAY)

The amount of fanfare given for this announcement is much more than is warranted, but in any case I wish the team well. Based on one thing though, I do believe they have already shown that this fork is more an ideological exercise than an effort to make a distro that is better for users. Picking a name is important and the team has failed miserably. If you have to explain how to pronounce it, you lose interest of potential users. Why not just pick a simple name?

Re: One Problem (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2014-11-29 02:33 (#2VBA)

Agreed with the pronounciation issue, I see it as 'doovian'. This will not be the only distro with multiple names. Go Suse! Or SuSe. Or is that SoosE? Maybe Suzi? The slackers I once worked with spend several days debating this.

Re: One Problem (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-29 10:44 (#2VBY)

I think we had similar discussions about Ubuntu, back in the day: Is it /Ū/BŪN/TŪ/ or /Ə/bƏn/tū/ or what?

Face it: this was nothing more than a pretext to test |.'s Unicode support.

Re: One Problem (Score: 1)

by zafiro17@pipedot.org on 2014-11-29 10:45 (#2VBZ)

Result: |. got all the diacriticals but refused the smiley face at the end. Awright, no smileys here then.
Heart:
Note:
Rook:

Re: One Problem (Score: 1)

by bryan@pipedot.org on 2014-11-30 13:45 (#2VDX)

Woot! I guess it worked. From the FAQ:
Unicode characters for most languages and useful symbols (like math, currency, and punctuation) are allowed. Dingbats, smiley faces, non-printing characters, right-to-left switchers, and other gibberish are filtered.

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