red carpet

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(thing) by Tsarren (6.7 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Apr 26 2000 at 17:26:20

A little more fancy than the proverbial welcome mat, the red carpet was traditionally used (I don't know when it first origionated) for dignitaries and diplomats arriving somewhere. A strip of red carpet was placed so that people would walk along it to wherever they were going. "Rolling out the red carpet" implies a fancy, no-holds-barred reception for someone or something. Also used in a sarcastic manner; ex: some military aircraft are approaching a target and see some AAA emplacements. One pilot would say to the other, "looks like they rolled out the red carpet for us."

(thing) by WWWWolf (1.4 y) (print) ? (I like it!) Wed Feb 21 2001 at 18:46:22

Red Carpet is also the name of Ximian's next generation installer program. While the old Ximian Installer could only install GNOME software, Red Carpet also provides a front-end to common distribution tools (RPM, APT and like) and also provides "channels" from which more software can be got.

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