What a name!
What a name!
Posted Jun 10, 2006 16:42 UTC (Sat) by Los__D (guest, #15263)In reply to: What a name! by arcticwolf
Parent article: Questions for deployments of GNOME
From wikipedia:
A gnome is a mythical creature characterized by small stature and living underground. According to Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the element of earth. He wrote that they move as easily through the earth as humans walk upon the ground. The sun's rays turn them into stone. In other traditions, they are simply small, mischievous sprites or goblins. Some sources say they spend the day as a toad instead of as inanimate stone.
They're both seen as good or bad, not just one of them. To say that it's not positive isn't really correct. Unsexy? Maybe, but less so than a boring 3 letter abbreviation that you can't even pronounce. ;)