The name LinuxBIOS has catched on however, I recall Ron wrote that it catched on even among vendors, and changing it without a really good reason would just hurt in that case.
I wonder if the pain of changing names would be worth preventing the perpetual misunderstanding that the current name creates. LinuxBIOS right now has nothing to do with Linux. The misconception that Linux is in the firmware or that the firmware was derived from Linux comes up frequently. (See one of the replies in this thread..)
Yeah, point taken. Instead, how about OpenStrap for the bootstrap section? This could go with BeltStrap as the variant with OpenFirmware included. The latter has some subliminal connotations of performance...
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