[Mageia-discuss] origin of the name "mageia"?

Maarten Vanraes maarten.vanraes at gmail.com
Tue Sep 21 00:28:29 CEST 2010


Op dinsdag 21 september 2010 00:11:43 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le lundi 20 septembre 2010 à 23:47 +0200, Maarten Vanraes a écrit :
> > Op maandag 20 september 2010 21:42:39 schreef Michael Scherer:
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Of course, this explanation is less sexy than the other one about "this
> > > come from greek", which are true too, but I want to highlight that
> > > choosing a name is neither easy or as fun as it sound. And that we
> > > didn't start by saying "wow, greek is a cool language, let's find a
> > > word from it".
> > 
> > one more question:
> > 
> > is it true that PLF is also behind mageia (ie: will PLF packages be in
> > mageia? cause of this being an international distribution, effectively?)
> 
> We are not yet at that level of details, afaik, and as I said, we are
> quite busy with others stuff.
> 
> My own opinion is that the issue that lead to the creation of PLF would
> still apply.
> 
> Not to mention that PLF has a cool logo, and that's a good reason to not
> drop it :p
> 
> But you should maybe ask to PLF directly on PLF discuss ?

my main interest is to find out if it's true that PLF is involved in creating 
mageia or not. if yes or no PLF is in mageia directly is only a side question.


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