The free software movement really needs to step up its name-game. No normal people want to use a program called The GIMP .
How about "git"?
Why the name?
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Re: Why the name?
#22missing from the list is one I've always wondered about: bamfdaemon
According to https://launchpad.net/bamf, it's the BAMF Application Matching Framework
Re: Why the name?
#23Earlier 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 hate info.
I have to read the info docs before I can read the docs I wanted to read. They're also divided up into little pieces unnecessarily, so I have to think rather than scroll until my eye catches what I need.
info is up there with inkjet printers and trying to make sound work worth a damn in Linux on my list of things that have frustrated me regularly for the past 20 years.
Re: Why the name?
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perhaps you would find info pages more useful. For example, 'info grep'.
I hate info. I have to read the info docs before I can read the docs I wanted to read. They're also divided up into little pieces unnecessarily, so I have to think rather than scroll until my eye catches what I need. info is up there with inkjet printers and trying to make sound work worth a damn in Linux on my list of things that have frustrated me regularly for the past 20 years.
I have a small script in my ~/bin that pipes `info --subnodes "$@"` into less. That way I don't have to remember all the keys, and the whole output is like a big man page. Although on Debian and Ubuntu the info pages are usually not available by default anyway due to the "GNU docs are non-free"-decision Debian made a few years ago.
Re: Why the name?
#25Some pretty interesting explanations in this list. I personally prefer to not let the developers name things, because they usually come up with very bad names (hard to pronounce, hard to google for, have overtly sexual connotations, etc). Command line utilities are a little different because there's a culture of having short names making them easier to type. But it's still very hard to google for things like "less" b…
How about considering that less predates search engines so easy to search for was not a consideration.
Re: Why the name?
#26Another fun that appears elsewhere but really does deserve to be in this list: Debian is named after Debra and Ian Murdock (he's the founder of the project, she was his girlfriend).
This list appears to include only software packaged in Debian, but that fact does get a mention at https://www.debian.org/intro/about#history
Re: Why the name?
#27The free software movement really needs to step up its name-game. No normal people want to use a program called The GIMP .
Reminds me of the BDSM-themed splash screen they put in one of the development versions a while back - which seems to have disappeared from the official site, but you can find it if you look hard enough (possibly a bit NSFW):
Re: Why the name?
#28Is is just me that get 403 Forbidden error?
Re: Why the name?
#29Some pretty interesting explanations in this list. I personally prefer to not let the developers name things, because they usually come up with very bad names (hard to pronounce, hard to google for, have overtly sexual connotations, etc). Command line utilities are a little different because there's a culture of having short names making them easier to type. But it's still very hard to google for things like "less" b…
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Re: Why the name?
#30Some pretty interesting explanations in this list. I personally prefer to not let the developers name things, because they usually come up with very bad names (hard to pronounce, hard to google for, have overtly sexual connotations, etc). Command line utilities are a little different because there's a culture of having short names making them easier to type. But it's still very hard to google for things like "less" b…
It's one of the two hard problems in Computer Science: 1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. Off-by-one errors.
Actually th4. Concurrencyere are three - you missed: