[indiana-discuss] Improve supportability though a single, unencumbered, unique release name.

[Brian Nitz]

Sean Sprague wrote:
> Brian!
>
>   
>> As someone who supports and works to help others find support on various 
>> Sun products, I have a suggestion for Indiana which could make a 
>> significant difference in making the release supportable.  Settle on a 
>> single, clear, google-unique, keywordable, unencumbered name prior to 
>> the release.
>>
>> Imagine this.  You've installed an indiana 1.0 release and have a 
>> problem with the panel.  So you search google:
>>
>> A google search on "indiana" gives 397 million results.
>> A search on indiana 1.0 gives 668,000
>> A search on indiana panel gives 619,000
>> A search on indiana gnome-panel gives 5380
>>     
>
> Agreed on all the above.
>
> I just learned from Wikipedia that residents of Indiana are known as "Hoosiers" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana 
> ). So my first suggestions for the "final" name for indiana is "HoosOS" or "HoosIX", the latter being referenced as an 
> atomic test in Nevada of 3.4 kilotons on 03/28/62...
>   
Sean,

Interesting.  Too many cool names were used for atomic bomb tests :-/   
I see that the "project GNOME" atomic test preceded Hoosix by only 4 
months and was part of project plowshare... one of the scariest 
"peaceful" cold war spinoffs I'd ever heard of.