Re: name that package/tree system!

[Brian Proffitt <bproffit redhat com>]

I have been thinking about using scientists' names for rpm-ostree. In particular, Planck, after the scientist Max Planck, who first described that notion that energy could come in discrete packets ("quanta").

Along those same lines, what about Quanta? I know it was a KDE web editor project, but it seems inactive now.

BKP

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Veillard" <veillard redhat com>
> To: "Joe Brockmeier" <jzb redhat com>
> Cc: atomic projectatomic io
> Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 7:57:21 AM
> Subject: Re: name that package/tree system!
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> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 12:07:41PM -0500, Joe Brockmeier wrote:
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> > On 04/25/2014 12:18 PM, Colin Walters wrote:
> > > Other ideas welcome. If this is successful you'll be typing it a
> > > lot, so keep that in mind =)
> > 
> > How about "Atomic Core" since it's sort of the foundation of the
> > project? (command name possibilities: "core" "cored" "acore")
> 
>   Out of inspiration i ended up looking at the periodic table for
> atom names we could try to reuse, it's actually incredible how many of
> them are already being used for computer stuff ... but none really
> caught my eye in the ostree context.
> 
>   TBH, I like ostree, rpm-ostree could be shortened say to rostree
> (and we could have dostree :)
> 
> Daniel
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