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by **caibbor** on Wed May 25, 2011 4:31 pm

"Linux Mint". I find it so strange to say, I find myself calling it "Mint Linux" instead. So, why does this distro break from that naming paradigm?

by **lmintnewb** on Wed May 25, 2011 4:33 pm

Random guess ...

Because the developers who made it and work to maintain it, wanna call it Linux Mint, instead of Mint LInux ? ... Errrrr, that'd be my guess anyway.

Also more random babblings, far as I know there is no standing naming convention associated with opensource software. You can call it rampaging monkey on steroids eating choc chips, if ya have the skills to make something useful out of opensource code.

by **vrkalak** on Wed May 25, 2011 5:44 pm

We already had a thread about "How LinuxMint got it's Name"

Over here > viewtopic.php?f=6&t=63824&p=367683&hilit=origin+of+the+name+linuxmint#p367683

It is all speculation anyway . . . only clem knows.

by **lmintnewb** on Wed May 25, 2011 5:58 pm

( cheesy internet acting ... take 1 ... action ! )

A rose by any other name ... is still a rose ! ( grabs digital chest theatrically ) ... A Mint or linux by any other name is still Linux Mint or a Linux ... Though ye can call it whatever ya want.( bows )

by **det4100** on Wed May 25, 2011 10:32 pm

I'm diggin that rampaging monkey thing. :lol:

by **RedLeg** on Thu May 26, 2011 1:30 am

If I could interject here, it is technically GNU/Linux Mint. :mrgreen:

by **karashata** on Thu May 26, 2011 12:57 pm

I dunno, in my GRUB bootloader it comes up as "LinuxMint GNU/Linux" with the kernel version and such...

by **TinyTony** on Thu May 26, 2011 1:13 pm

Because the main developper is french, and in french you put first the noun and then the adjectives/qualificatives (english does the opposite).

by **Habitual** on Thu May 26, 2011 3:34 pm

caibbor wrote:"Linux Mint". I find it so strange to say, I find myself calling it "Mint Linux" instead. So, why does this distro break from that naming paradigm?

Yeah, but Ubuntu just rolls off the tongue?
How about when you called it Linux (long I, as in Linus) instead of Linux (soft I as in Linen)?

Who cares, as long as it works.

by **Habitual** on Thu May 26, 2011 3:36 pm

RedLeg wrote:If I could interject here, it is technically GNU/Linux Mint.

I grok that!

by **Aging Technogeek** on Thu May 26, 2011 6:33 pm

C'mon now! Even Richard Stallworth has been less insistent on calling it GNU/Linux recently. He is apparently bowing to general usage and learning to live with just Linux.

by **Roken** on Thu May 26, 2011 7:47 pm

Now if only Linus could get used to lie-nux instead of lynux so that I don't have to retrain myself, everyone could be happy

by **caibbor** on Fri May 27, 2011 2:51 pm

RedLeg wrote:If I could interject here, it is technically GNU/Linux Mint.

while we're being smartasses, we might as well call it Grub/GNU/Linux/Xorg/Upstart/Nvidia (because I use the binary drivers)

by **AlbertP** on Fri May 27, 2011 3:01 pm

Grub is a GNU thing so not needed seperately.

Add Ubuntu/Debian to that :lol:

by **lmintnewb** on Fri May 27, 2011 3:06 pm

Canna speak for everyone. But I have pet names for all my linux installs and sumtimes babytalk to them ... My widdle liny winny and so forth. Not sure if that's exactly correct technically speaking. Errrrr, forget I mentioned that.

We're all just messing with ya OP.

by **caibbor** on Sun May 29, 2011 1:55 pm

hah. I don't baby talk my computers but of course I have named for them. any networked computer must have an intelligible name, so we might as well make them clever and memorable :-D

One old computer I had that ran FreeBSD I named Cindi (which stands for Computer In Need of Desperate Improvement). My old laptop is Lenny because it starts with an L (for Laptop). Also I think I might've installed debian lenny on it once...

etc.

by **lmintnewb** on Sun May 29, 2011 11:02 pm

lol ... the Cindi thing is catchy.

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