[semi-OT] CentOS named appropriately?

Michael ODonnell michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Wed Aug 26 09:54:06 EDT 2009


I wonder if the CentOS (Community ENTerprise Operating System)
founders knew about this or if it's just, like, ya know - kosmic:

  ######## e521:~/codeGen 601---> dict cento
  1 definition found

  From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

    Cento \Cen"to\, n.; pl. {Centos}. [L. cento a garment of several
       pieces sewed together, patchwork, a poem made up of various
       verses of another poem.]
       A literary or a musical composition formed by selections from
       different authors disposed in a new order.
       [1913 Webster]



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