Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] anyone heard of a Pandora Linux?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 4 Mar 2005, Jonathan King wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 10:43:11 -0600, Michael Procter
> <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>>>
>>> And yes, I realize this is a very odd thing to name a distro after. :)
>>>
>>
>> Why?  I wish I had thought of it.
>
> Um, Pandora's Box was a box left at Epimetheus' and Pandora's house as a 
> trap by the gods; they weren't supposed to open it because it wasn't 
> their property.  But Pandora couldn't resist the temptation, opened the 
> box, and let out all of the evil, disease, crime and death that Zeus had 
> put into the box, which was now loosed into world and gave us the misery 
> we currently experience.
>
> So I would have to say this is a profoundly bad thing to name something 
> you really want people to use in order to improve their lives.  But 
> that's just me.

Exactly.  But it might be attractive to adventurous types.  Modern 
Pandoras, you might say.

That was a very nice summary, by the way.

Mike
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