Re: Roadmap for Guix 1.0

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

I was refraining to answer, but this:

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 4:29 PM George Clemmer <address@hidden> wrote:
> I think this discussion was primarily triggered by the realization that
> we can improve the top-level presentation of Guix by downplaying the
> distinction between Guix and GuixSD. In fact, we could delay the
> introduction of Guix/GuixSD to the download page.
>
> A more informative download page might look like:
>
> Use Guix to manage ...
>
> entire computers: GuixSD download options: x86_64 i686
>
> VMs: download options: GuixSD x86_64-QEMU-image
>
> GNU/Linux user environments: Guix download options: x86_64, i686, armhf,
> aarch64
>
> Here we see the primary purpose of the Guix/GuixSD labels is to identify
> the different download options and to enable the user to find the
> correct install instructions and doc sections for whatever they
> download.
>
> GuixSD doesn't necessarily need to be changed. But the issue has been
> raised, as mentioned above, that because "SD" is not a recognized
> abbreviation "GuixSD" carries no intuitive meaning. If we want an
> improved label for the Guix system distribution, the best one is
> probably "GuixOS" since "OS" is a widely used and recognized
> abbreviation ...

Is exactly my opinion also, so it gets a +1

Bye

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Vincent Legoll