[SlugLUG] More Iceweasel

[Peter Belew]

Oh - and I should apologize for not starting a separate thread re
Iceweasel from the start - thanks for doing that, Nacho!

- Peter

On 10/26/06, Ignacio Solis <isolis at igso.net> wrote:
> Peter Belew wrote:
> > For the moment, this is a bit confusing to users of Debian and distros
> > that are Debian-based.
>
> It's not that confusing, they have their own policies and might accept what
> Mozilla is asking of them.

 The confusion is mainly to people like me that only heard of all this
 forking within the past few days. And maybe to newbies, I suppose.

 - Peter
>
> > Oh - and apparently there is a GNU version of Iceweasel, adding to the
> > confusion. Maybe they should call this GNUferret? :) Or GNUotter?
> > Or, that's it! - GNUskunk! Another mustilid from the skunkworks?
>
> The name Iceweasel was a name for Firefox coined for/by Debian.  When things
> cooled off between Mozilla and Debian, GNU still wanted to make a free version
> of firefox, and took the Iceweasel name and used it.
>
>
> Nacho
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