RE: [TCLUG:11512] Re: RH Linux (Was:[TCLUG:11507] Help with NE2000/Linksys16 LAN Card)

["Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>]

>> [Red Hat] has the most popular packaging
>> system; and the doco in the box is some of the best I've seen. it
>> also has a big name, which makes it a good 'corporate' distro.
>
>Pardon my pet peeve, but where the hell do you get a second "o" out of
>"documentation"?  (Or "distribution", for that matter, although at least
>"distro" sounds a little like something you might actually say aloud if you
>were aiming for brevity).  Not that I've anything against jargon, but that's
>just weird and grating...
        you know, I actually agree with you; but 'doco' is the term that
I've heard widely used (by [UNIX] geeks in widely disparate areas). 'doco'
also seems to roll off the tongue smoothly; and sounds more jargon-esque
(culturally including oneself on the basis of dialect). 
        otherwise i'd probably say 'docs'. :)

        one could probably make a linguistic study of the use of the suffix
'-o' in slang: 'daddy-o', 'bing-o', 'name-o', 'doc-o', 'distr-o'. I have no
idea what it might turn up.

Carl Soderstrom.