Hi. maybe a silly question, but could someone please tell me what does “GM” in ‘opensuse 11.1 GM’ actually stand for?
Thanks.
GM = Gold Master
Thank you, oldcpu!
Just a thought: why is it called Gold Master? What is the special significance of such a grand name? 
thanks once again, though.
I think long ago in the past one actually sent a carefully checked CD master to the mastering plant to be duplicated. The best quality media in those days had a gold colour, but no gold involved, just phthalocyanine dye. These days I’m sure they just send a carefully checksummed image.
Just be glad it doesn’t stand for General Motors or Genetically Modified. lol!
thanks. it is funny, coz don’t all the major distros do the same? i mean, for a stable release, carefully checksum their image anyway, beforehand? >:)
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The vendors checksum their images, but do the users? Ahhh… 
I understand it is always advisable to do so, anyway. But I guess if you download from official torrent, then you do not need to checksum the iso right?
Why would you want to save about 30 seconds of time for something that could save you hours of grief even if the chance of it happening is 0.01%? For example, k3b can do the checksum while you rummage for that blank DVD.
On Thu, 2008-12-18 at 11:16 +0000, oldcpu wrote:
> viperskunk;1909899 Wrote:
> > Hi. maybe a silly question, but could someone please tell me what does
> > “GM” in ‘opensuse 11.1 GM’ actually stand for?
> > Thanks.
>
> GM = Gold Master
Actually it changed this year. In order to get more
press, it’s no longer Gold Master…
GM = General Motors
However, I’m skeptical that this will yield any positive
market response. SUSE people aren’t looking forward
to paying the union dues.
GM = Grumpy Masochists