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		varbhat on Dec 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rocky Linux: A CentOS replacement by the CentOS fo... "Thinking back to early CentOS days... My cofounder was Rocky McGaugh. He is no longer with us, so as a H/T to him, who never got to see the success that CentOS came to be, I introduce to you...Rocky Linux" — Gregory Kurtzer, Founder of Rocky Linux and Co-founder of CentOS It's written in Repo's README

asutekku on Dec 16, 2020 [–]

No matter how good the intentions are, the name is pretty bad.

bigbubba on Dec 16, 2020 | | [–]

That is your subjective opinion, one lots of people in this thread happen to disagree with.

phoronixrly on Dec 16, 2020 | | [–]

They should rename it to something like zpermutator.io GNU/Linux. I swear, this thread is peak HN with this name bikeshedding.

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