Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261877AbUJZBTF (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:19:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261920AbUJZBSw (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:18:52 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:4051 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261915AbUJZBSc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Oct 2004 21:18:32 -0400 X-BrightmailFiltered: true Reply-To: From: "Hua Zhong" To: "'Linus Torvalds'" , "'Bill Davidsen'" Cc: "'Nick Piggin'" , "'William Lee Irwin III'" , "'Kernel Mailing List'" Subject: RE: The naming wars continue... Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:46:58 -0700 Organization: Cisco Systems Message-ID: <00ba01c4bae4$892ec4f0$ca41cb3f@amer.cisco.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4939.300 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 841 Lines: 20 But not everyone reads LKML or the annoucement..a lot of people may just decide whether to try this out based on the name. They go to kernel.org from time to time and say: I'll test the next rc release. "RC" has a very well-known meaning. It would make people scared if they find rc isn't stable, and lose a lot of potential testers. So why break it? Even another meaningless name which doesn't collide with RC is better. > Which is just another reason why the name itself is not that > meaningful. > It can never carry the kind of information that people seem > to _expect_ it to carry. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/