User talk:Striker

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[edit] Internet Relay Chat edit

Regarding your edit, changing X11 to X Windows, I would advise you to take a look at X Windowing System, specifically, section 9 on Nomenclature. The term "X Windows" (in the manner of "Microsoft Windows") is officially deprecated and generally considered incorrect. I have taken the liberty of correcting the mistake (although your other edits I agree with). --huwr 04:37, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[I have edited my original comment out -- it was a bit too extreme] Nbougalis 14:05, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of Lunar Linux

I must disagree with lunar not having an origin because it is based on another distribution. Many other distributions are based on other distributions, such as Ubuntu, Knoppix, and CentOS. The project started in the US, thus to me, that's where Lunar's origin is, and I'm sure this is how many other distribution's origins are figured. If the origin column were so specific to only be for distributions not based on others, it would become quite useless just because so many distributions are forks of other distributions. That of course, is just my opinion, and being a lunar developer myself I'm sure I'm a bit biased, but if it is to be enforced on lunar, it should be enforced on all forks. -- Striker 22:28, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

"If the origin column were so specific to only be for distributions not based on others, it would become quite useless just because so many distributions are forks of other distributions."
That's what the "Predecessor" column is for.
If you can confirm that every developer for Sorcerer GNU/Linux and the developers that initially forked it into Lunar Linux were all located in the USA, then it's fine to list Lunar's origin as "USA". Otherwise it is illogical.
Alternatively, we could say Lunar's origin is "Forked from Sorcerer" or just "Sorcerer"; Sorcerer is already listed as its "Predecessor", however, so this would seem redundant to me. ¦ Reisio 22:53, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't see how debating where all the project's developers were from counts for anything. That can be stated for any distribution as well...I would imagine hardly any distributions have one single location for its developers, not to mention that other distributions based on a previous one will be from the same location. Ubuntu is a fine example of this, since it's based on debian which has developers world-wide. Lunar was forked by Chuck Mead under his new project based in the US, on US servers, thus the origin is the US. -- Striker 23:32, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

If Mead forked it all by himself with assistance from nobody else (or if everyone helping was also from the USA), I've no problem with its origin being "USA". ¦ Reisio 00:16, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Let's keep this simple. Comparison tables don't provide enough room for nuances and subtlety. If the lead developer was based in the US at the time the distribution was forked, then that's the origin. Many of the distributions have an international development team, but there's simply not enough space in the comparison table to explain this. That's what the individual articles about each distribution are for. --MarkSweep✍ 02:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

Why are you enforcing this only on the Lunar Linux project, and not all the other distributions listed? Can I not also ask where exactly every developer for a particular distribution was from and find out that some developers lived abroad in other countries? I fail to see the point in your argument that all developers from one line of distributions must all live in one location for it to count as an origin. Everything has an origin, even if it's based on prior work and not all developers lived in the same location. -- Striker 00:33, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

I fail to see the point in your argument
I noticed. :) Don't worry about it; if majority consensus is for "USA", that's what it shall be. ¦ Reisio 02:45, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] lol you think?

I reverted that anon at Star Wars Galaxies the first time he put it in last night, and went to bed... looks like he put it right back in. I'd like to see his justification for how its not POV. :) --Syrthiss 17:12, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Bleh. Between SWG and RuneScape its a wonder we get anything done here. --Syrthiss 17:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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