Mad Penguin review

[John]

~~~ Rohan ~~~ wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am inclined to agree that the reviewer might have written the review after 
> a fight with his wife or something, the aggressiveness shows that.
> 
> However, the reviewer has put forward all the bad points of ubuntu -- worse 
> being the name. I fully agree that ubuntu must choose better names .. I 
> mean, imagine, a conversation in office using "Vista" and "dapper drake" . 
> 
> I am not targeting at ubuntu, "heidelberg" and "tettnang" similarly 
> ridiculous names, but if ubuntu wants to enter the enterprise market, it 
> must give a serious thought to the naming scheme.

How are those names worse than Vista? At least they weren't pinched from 
some other business.

I've always regarded the Ubuntu names, which mean absolutely nothing to 
me, as slightly eccentric, somewhat refreshing after some of the IBM 
names I've been using for 30 years or so:
OS	Operating system (I kid you not)
DOS	Disk Operating System. There were also TOS and BOS.
VM	Virtual Machine
OS/VS{,1,2}	Operating System/Virtual Storage {, One, Two} The latest 
incarnation of OS/VS2 is Z/OS - Zed Operating System.
IMS	Instant Machine Sale (Whoops Information Management System), a DBMS.
IMS/DB The database part of IMS
IMS/DC The communications part of IMS
Then there are the Access Methods such as BTAM, VTAM, TCAM, QSAM, BSAM, 
BDAM, GAM, VSAM, ISAM, QISAM, BISAM and more.