On 12.01.2008 02:43, ron minnich wrote:
Welcome to coreboot!
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As a result, starting last year, we decided to look at a new name. We had lots of candidates, and discussed the name with many companies. In the end, the name that seemed to stick was "coreboot". It makes a lot of sense: the code we are working on is the "core boot code".
There is one aspect of the new name that was not discussed yet if I remember correctly: Capitalization. It seems "coreboot" is all lowercase. While I agree that it looks nice, I remember the trouble "openSUSE" had when they insisted on their particular capitalization, especially in contiguous texts with "openSUSE" at the beginning of some sentences. Starting a sentence with a lowercase word makes most word processors complain loudly. Independent of that, some media outlets don't care about capitalization of project names at all. I do like "coreboot" as it is because that capitalization gives me the impression of "works behind the scenes".
So, starting this year, the 10th (base 8!) anniversary of the first LinuxBIOS boot, we are transitioning to the name coreboot. As you can see from the above, coreboot can support all kinds of software, still including Linux.
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This name change was a lot of work. A great deal of behind-the-scenes work has been done by Stefan Reinauer, so I hope you will join me in thanking Stefan for a job well done.
Indeed, thanks!
We will make the changes slowly and with a lot of preparation. You have already seen the IRC channel change, and host names change over to coreboot.org. At some point in the next three months you will see a change in the svn repository name. We're going to be very careful to ensure nothing breaks.
For svn repository moving, it would be nice to have a few people test it in all of its glory before it is done.
Regards, Carl-Daniel