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Phoenix and Minotaur Get New Names

Posted by timothy on from the but-not-new-icons dept.

blazerw11 writes "Phoenix and Minotaur have been officially renamed to Firebird for the browser and Thunderbird for the mail client. Interestingly, they're both named after cars I often see in my neighbors' lawns. At least these cars were pretty fast before they were put up on cinder blocks. Personally, I like the names and the browser is great. I'm writing this with one of the last Phoenix Nightlies."

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  1. "In related news..." by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    1.) Skim article summary.
    2.) Begin post with "In related news..." or "In other news..."
    3.) Write unrelated and obviously improbable "news story."
    4.) Wait for crackhead moderators to instantly mod your post up to "+5 Funny."
    5.) Revel in your uncreativity and unoriginality. Do it all over again in the next article.

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  2. Re:"Firebird" is also taken by bsstmiller · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Quasi-obscure to whom? You mean the millions of programmers that use Borland products? Obviously you are not a programmer! If you don't think you login in to a database from a browser. Better tell Oracle Finacials, People Soft, JD Edwards, SAP, etc. they need to change there products radically. The name is taken and by a friendly open source group. How hard was it to search sourceforge???