F9 Name Proposal
Michael Beckwith
michael.d.beckwith at gmail.com
Tue Nov 13 18:59:56 UTC 2007
I'd vote for a dragon based one. I already named all 3 of my local hosts
in relation to dragons. "IceDragon", "WaterDragon", and "FireDragon"
Martin Sourada wrote:
> I am aware of these rules, so I'll explicitly say what I meant with my
> name suggestion(s) and also add one more:
>
> Nosferatu / Dracula / Draculina / Vampire (whoever)
> * A mythical half-beast, like a werewolf
> * For F-10 (or F-X?) we could use one of the connections to vampires
> via many films they were in...
>
> And the promised one
>
> Uroboros / Glaurung / Dragon (whoever)
> * Mythical creature
> * Can be succeeded by any of the heroes, characters, ... from films,
> literature, games... (personally I'd follow with Beowulf)
>
> * Uroboros (though the word itself does not sound to me much nice) has
> some good connection to Fedora itself, as it symbolises infinity and
> unity, in words from wikipedia[1]:
>
> "It has been used to represent many things over the ages, but it most
> generally symbolizes ideas of cyclicality, unity, or infinity."
>
> * Glaurung is the first dragon ever born in Tolkien's mythology
>
> Martin
>
> References:
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros
>
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