[Mageia-discuss] Codename suggestion

[Thomas Lottmann]

  Le 19/09/2010 23:40, André Machado a écrit :
> I suggest what 1st Mageia version be called "Xavante"
>
> Xavante is a Brazil indigene tribe. When Brazilian distro Conectiva 
> was sold to Mandrake to form Mandriva, at the late 2005, some 
> Conectiva users tried to create a fork called Xavante - just like is 
> happening now-, but the distro was not ahead.
>
> Would be a surprising and amazing tribute if this codename was adopted 
> and would recognize the Brazilians as part of Mandriva operatting 
> system and, now, from Mageia operating system.
>
>

I guess the first release of Mageia will need to have a more symbolic 
name, like Fedora has, a name that is symbolic even for people that are 
not inside the community. Sadly Xavante will not mean anything for 
people from outside, that's why a much more powerful name would be 
better to have a great meaning (and why not link it to the artwork? 
Well, that'll be to determine in the future).

Yet, using Xavante as a little name for one of the pre-releases of the 
first stable release for Mageia could be really nice.
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