Is it only me . . . .?
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| Author | Content |
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| lcafiero Dec 19, 2009 1:03 AM EDT |
. . . or like BeOS (and its software, called BeWare), is this an uncommonly unfortunate choice of an acronym? First and foremost, in the television show "Get Smart," KAOS was the organization that CONTROL was fighting. To say nothing of the homonym for KaOS which, of course, is chaos. |
| jezuch Dec 19, 2009 6:14 AM EDT |
Maybe they're fans of Roger Waters? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_K.A.O.S.) |
| hkwint Dec 19, 2009 10:42 AM EDT |
And after watching all those weird names, they amused themselves to death? Well, that makes sense! |
| caitlyn Dec 19, 2009 7:56 PM EDT |
Linux includes a distro named Debris and a library called Clutter. Names that are contrary to any sort of sane marketing seem to be popular with some Linux developers. |
| Sander_Marechal Dec 19, 2009 9:54 PM EDT |
Marketing suits have nothing on a geek sense of humor :-) |
| hkwint Dec 20, 2009 4:59 PM EDT |
caitlyn, you forgot to mention the OS called Inferno and its programming language called Limbo. And the text editor of Inferno is called ACME, just as the old DOS-virus. And now they wonder why it didn't pick up... |
| tuxchick Dec 20, 2009 5:01 PM EDT |
Don't forget Con Kolivas' renamed scheduler BFS. sigh. http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/bfs-faq.txt |
| caitlyn Dec 20, 2009 5:04 PM EDT |
You couldn't give the full name, of course, since this is a family-friendly site. Con is a brilliant programmer but his choice of names is, well... |
| jezuch Dec 20, 2009 5:06 PM EDT |
Quoting:renamed Actually, it's reimplemented. Quoting:BFS At least he had a reason to call it that way :) |
| hkwint Dec 20, 2009 7:13 PM EDT |
Well, you know what Con means in French I suppose? And BFS, wonder what that looks like. I guess something like: >[-]>[-]<<[->+>+<<]>>[-<<+>>]<< |
| montezuma Dec 20, 2009 10:25 PM EDT |
Must make for a fun time for French tourists in Greece. |
| gus3 Dec 21, 2009 12:54 AM EDT |
Uh, monty, did you get the wrong thread? |
| mortenalver Dec 21, 2009 6:00 AM EDT |
I assume this scheduler was not written in the language the name indicates. |
| hkwint Dec 21, 2009 8:02 AM EDT |
I surely hope it wasn't! But the idea is still fun. |
| mortenalver Dec 21, 2009 9:58 AM EDT |
I'm not sure it would really be open source any longer... |
| montezuma Dec 21, 2009 6:54 PM EDT |
gus3, Shrugs. Yet another attempt at humor fails. You do realise that Con is a Greek Australian? |
| gus3 Dec 21, 2009 7:37 PM EDT |
@monty: Yes. I go to a Greek church. |
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