# HG changeset patch # User Rob Landley # Date 1276729674 18000 # Node ID 25b47a72fd70a6bf9894d77b0f9ccb13c8d0c289 # Parent 62e2321619e282c06c9ea5c068f8574722cfcb86 Update the FAQ with some reasons for the name change. diff -r 62e2321619e2 -r 25b47a72fd70 www/FAQ.html --- a/www/FAQ.html Wed Jun 16 08:14:27 2010 -0500 +++ b/www/FAQ.html Wed Jun 16 18:07:54 2010 -0500 @@ -87,9 +87,22 @@

A: Yup. The name changed shortly before the 1.0 release in 2010.

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If you're really bored, there's a page on -the history of the project, which includes the -rationale for the name change.

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The name "Aboriginal Linux" is based on a synonym for "native", as in +native compiling. It implies it's the first Linux on a new system, and also +that it can be replaced. It turns a system into something you can do +native development in, terraforming your environment so you can use it +to natively build your deployment environment (which may be something else +entirely).

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Aboriginal Linux is cross compiled, but after it boots you shouldn't need +to do any more cross compiling. (Except optionally using the cross compiler +as a native building accelerator via distcc.) Hence our motto, +"We cross compile so you don't have to".

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The old name didn't describe the project very well. (It also had tens +of millions of Google hits, most of which weren't this project.) If you're +really bored, there's a page on the history of the +project.

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