"Giving cryptic names to software is a well-established UNIX tradition."
Giving cryptic names to software works better if you have a big advertising budget. Otherwise, nobody has a clue what your package does.
Why the name?
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#12missing from the list is one I've always wondered about: bamfdaemon
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#13The free software movement really needs to step up its name-game. No normal people want to use a program called The GIMP.
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#14"python - is of course a Monty Python reference" I had no idea! Makes me love it even more.
Wait till you find out why the IDE that comes with the official Python package is called IDLE ;)
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#15The free software movement really needs to step up its name-game. No normal people want to use a program called The GIMP .
I was one of those people who heard of the photo editor tool before I watched Pulp Fiction. I had no idea why the name was so controversial.
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#16missing from the list is one I've always wondered about: bamfdaemon
I assume bamf refers to x-men comics where "bamf" was the onomatopoeia for the demonic character Nightcrawler's teleportation.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I personally find the man pages very dense and poorly organized. `man grep` for example is my own personal nightmare. I think the man pages should introduce a policy of simple usage examples instead of throwing 99% of information you don't care about at you at once. Something like http://bropages.org/
Perhaps you would find info pages more useful. For example, 'info grep'.
I find that the Man pages on BSD-derived systems are generally quite exceptional, where as GNU-based systems seem to be less so. `info` seems to be their attempt at making a better `man`, but it's pretty hit-or-miss if a Linux-based project thats not from the FSF supports infopages over manpages.
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#18missing from the list is one I've always wondered about: bamfdaemon
bad-ass motherfker daemon?
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#20"python - is of course a Monty Python reference" I had no idea! Makes me love it even more.
And the Python Package Index, https://pypi.python.org/pypi , is also known as the "Cheese Shop".