[TriLUG] Re: redhat-config-network question

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 09:35, James Manning wrote:
> > [Tanner Lovelace]
> > > Note that although this was historically true, RPM has stood for "RPM
> > > Package Manager" for a long time now.  
> > 
> > Gotta love that revisionist history. :-)
> 
> much like today's "KDE == K Desktop Environment", almost for the same
> reason in that s/RedHat/RPM/ and s/Kool/K/ are both vanity removals :)

Hmm.. I always thought KDE was a takeoff of CDE and it was meant to
be "Kommon Desktop Environment"?

Not that it really matters, of course.  It's perfectly acceptable for
both KDE and Redhat to change the name to reflect the current usage.
RPM has definitely grown beyond Redhat.

Cheers,
Tanner
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