Why not drop the Core from Fedora Core?

[Martin Alderson]

On 18 Feb 2004, at 21:38, Steffan Jacobs wrote:

> Thiago Vinhas de Moraes wrote:
>
>> Em Qua, 2004-02-18 às 16:03 -0500, Alan Cox escreveu:
>>
>>> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 05:44:55PM -0300, Thiago Vinhas de Moraes 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I really could not understand the decision of the OS name to be 
>>>> Fedora
>>>> Core. People cannot even guess what the hell it is. Is it a game? An
>>>> ISP? A super computer?
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone explain why the core in fedora core? Why not Fedora 
>>>> Linux, or
>>>> just Fedora 2 for the next release?
>>>>
>>> Fedora
>>> 	Core
>>> 	Extras
>>> 	Alternatives
>>> 	Legacy
>>>
>>> Not "alternatives" means Fedora might not always just be Linux - if 
>>> someone
>>> wants to do a Fedora on a BSD kernel, hurd or something new why 
>>> limit it
>>>
>>
>> So, why not Fedora System or Fedora OS? As Fedora should be an
>> international operating system, it's important to use a terminology 
>> that
>> non-american and non-britsh people can understand. For me, personally,
>> the word Core can be a lot of things, but not a operating system.
>>
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> I've thought about this before and my opinion is this: it's ok (and 
> appropriate) to talk about "Fedora Core" when you're talking about the 
> actual Core packages/ CD's containing them etc, etc. However the OS 
> should be named "Fedora" because as soon as Fedora Extras, 
> Alternatives and Legacy become available any Fedora user might also be 
> using any of those packages as part of his/her "official" Fedora 
> installation. The OS you're using is then no longer "Fedora Core" but 
> "Fedora". So for my point of view the Fedora Project is offering 
> Fedora Core iso's to install the Fedora OS. (it's a little vague even 
> for me but that's the way I'm seeing it and using the terms right 
> now).

I agree. Also, the website is not 'fedoracore.redhat.com', it's 
'fedora.redhat.com'...

Martin Alderson,
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