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by aaco 6079 days ago
I think the main problem is that the title is misleading, even if another name were used.

What does "Zed's Dead, Baby. Zed's Dead" inform that is related to ZFS? Does it somehow attract people who are interested in ZFS for Mac OS X or it hit the front page for some other reason?

Or maybe the word "Zed" is just related to ZFS (or ZFS for Mac OS X) in a way that I'm unaware.

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Let me put it that way - if you're interested in anything Mac and don't read Gruber, you're doing it wrong.

So there's no need to "attract" people interested in OS X, and he doesn't really care for any other readership.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zed

Zed (or Z) is the twenty-sixth and final letter of the basic modern Latin alphabet.

Considering the bit earlier about ZFS being dropped by Apple, and there was a point when ZFS was billed as the "final file system", I immediately read the title of this as about ZFS.

'Z' is pronounced 'zed' in some countires. Could that be it? The "Zed FS" is dead?