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[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Jesus, they use Zypper ~~instead of~~ as opposed to APT, now this. Do they have some kind of a traditional ritual of getting high before naming these things?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

zypper predates apt (which isn't the same as apt-get)

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Well yeah but my point was really just that it’s a goofy name. Not instead of, more like as opposed to.

P.S. interesting factoid that I didn’t know. Thanks. But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper? Because that’s sufficient.

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

But with regard to your caveat: did you mean that apt-get predates zypper?

No, apt-get is the oldest. It was one utility out of a set of utilities. I always found it super dumb that you hat to use a completely different tool to search for a package (apt-cache, I think).

zypper was released in 2006.

The all in one apt command was introduced by Debian 8 in 2015.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I find it weird when I see instructions that still reference apt-get.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Apparently, the name was just the obvious technical name, since they started this during a hackathon where they didn't want to spend time on naming. And supposedly, they're also still looking for name suggestions, but yeah, I do find it slightly weird to publicly announce the name, if they are still planning to change it...

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meh… I find it refreshing that they set aside formality. It’s part of what makes the Linux world a little different in a good way. Unlike the big corporate world with lots of Capital letters and ™ legal © symbols everywhere.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, I do, too, but found it difficult to articulate. We expect them to come up with a good branding, because it's a corporation. If this were a random person just throwing something out there as open-source, we'd welcome them no matter how odd the name might be. Heck, I might even appreciate that they've chosen a clearly non-marketable name, because it clearly shows that they have no interest in making money off of it.

[–] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah I think there’s a way to see it from either perspective.