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From: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
To: David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Un-googlable
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:49:24 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A7D804.9080604@qumranet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877iagpjsk.fsf@mcbain.luannocracy.com>

David Abrahams wrote:
> Serious question: has anyone considered changing the name of this
> project?  

Yes.

> Finding information about kvm on the web is extremely
> frustrating due to the enormous number of pages related to KVM switches
> and the heavily overlapping target audience (people who want to run
> multiple OSes).  I figure a name change would be good for reducing the
> developer support burden as well as for your users.
>   

In many ways kvm is a horrible choice.  I'm not sure a name change is 
possible at this stage, though.

I've thought of 'slice' (which rhymes nicely with some Qumranet 
products, and so may not be the first choice for other kvm developers), 
but that may not be the googliest name either.

Perhaps one day the distinction between kvm and linux will disappear, 
and the hypervisor will be known simply as 'Linux'.

-- 
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-17  7:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-17  0:27 Un-googlable David Abrahams
2008-08-17  0:33 ` Un-googlable Glauber Costa
2008-08-17  0:45   ` Un-googlable David Abrahams
2008-08-17 13:07     ` Un-googlable john cooper
2008-08-18 16:20     ` Un-googlable Alberto Treviño
2008-08-17  7:49 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2008-08-18 10:10   ` Un-googlable David Abrahams
2008-08-19 10:23 ` Un-googlable Jurrit de Vries

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