Considering the recent news/proposal from SUSE about OpenSUSE rebranding - what do you think would be some fitting names for the distro/community?
With a new package manager named vent
If there’s a package conflict that requires the user’s choice, it shall be called an emergency meeting
AmogOS
already exists, amazingly
openDSUS4
Green Hat
Ubunot
Ubun’t
Genalso
[Sorry for the double reply]
Here’s a silly idea: what about ZagrOS? “Zagros” is the name of the mountain range where the ancient city of Susa used to be. It’s like the city was too small for the project, so they took over the whole mountain range, so they went from [open]SUSE to ZagrOS.
Love it
If you shorten OpenSUSE to OS, then add OS to the end (shorthand for operating system), you get OSOS.
Job done.
OpenSUSE Open Source Operating System.
OSOSOSbut then alphabetize it for readability
OOOSSS
@superkret@feddit.org @spujb@lemmy.cafe The beauty of these options is that pronunciations will continue to differ the way folks pronounce OpenSUSE differently.
Is OSOS pronounced as oh-sos or os-os?
Is OSOSOS pronounced as os-os-os or as oh-sos–sos or as oh-so–sos?
Is OOOSSS pronounced as ooze or as oo-ss or as o-se?
(OS)²
Will cause confusion with people who remember os/2
Means “bears” in spanish
bearOS
Would OSOS be a recursive name like AROS (Amiga Research Operating System, changed to AROS Research Operating System)?
GeckoOS
or my personal favourite, OpenSUS
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Agreed. The name is a bit silly, but “Fedora” is silly too, or “OpenSUSE” wtf?
I think “Ubuntu” or “Arch” are names that make sense. Everything with “OS” in the name is kinda amateur-ish.
MacOS and iOS are good examples of amateur marketing
I think Fedora is a great name
Unfortunately already taken
GeckOS
GeckoOS is unfortunately also taken
OpenSueMe
OpenSauce
- ChameLinux
- ChameleOS
- OpenCamo
- OpenChamo
Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce
- SauceOS
- OpenSauce
- SaucyOS
You will find that opensauce is already in use albeit not for an os
OpenSüß
Debiain’t
Any name that does not contain an animal.
All Linux names are no longer valid as they’re all GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux if you’re into that.
Android, Alpine and Chimera aren’t.
They don’t have GNU but they’re still verboten:
- Android - a fake H. sapiens animal
- Chimera - made from stitching together parts of multiple animals.
It may or may not call you onii-chan in the process. - Alpine - reference to the alps, grazing pastures around the mountain peaks in a region of Europe. For grazing animals. (I’m grasping at straws with this one, I know.)
Alpine uses GCC at least.
You rn:
The smile quickly drops from the man’s face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams “[ALPINE] WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT’S STILL GNU!” Coolly, I reply “If windows was compiled With gcc, would that make it GNU?” I interrupt his response with “-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even you were correct, you wont be for long.”
I appreciate the attempt at comedy. But I have no problem with Alpine (other than the snail oldmalloc performance). I even contributed a port fix or two.
The more interesting part that should have been read from my comment was that Chimera DOES NOT use GCC. Not to mention that it ships non-GNU coreutils that are usable by desktop users. While Alpine has it’s GNU coreutils package overriding busybox because that’s what most users would want. So that’s another GNU component any non-meme non-turbo-minimalist desktop user would be using on Alpine.
The Linux kernel has been been able to build with Clang for long time. Chimera Linux does omit out of the box.
I do not know if you can build Windows with Clang but I bet you can.
Don’t they already have the names Leap and Tumbleweed? Changing the name to Leap would make sense since it’s the name of the “official LTS” version. At this point it sounds like “openSUSE” is the name of the project and not the distro. But I haven’t been following them closely, so perhaps I’m wrong.
Rename the project Chameleon and keep calling Tumbleweed and Leap by their distribution names.
anything with an obvious pronunciation
IDC what it is but they can pry that chameleon from my cold dead hands
I’d suggest “Spicious Linux”, but it’s a 5/10 pun at best, and too similar to “specious” which means “sounds legit but isn’t”; not necessarily a good look.
“Opus” borrows letters and sounds good, but speaking of sounds, it’s the name of a sound codec, so maybe not a good choice.
“Abstruse” has similar problems to “specious”…
“ChameleOS” is the name of a dragon in a game.
I figure if I run through all the bad ideas here, only good ones will be left… but that might well be specious.
I started trying to read through the thread, but there’s clearly a lot of context that I don’t have. Is anyone able to give a brief summary that would explain what this is all about?
After years of support and collaboration, SUSE asked OpenSUSE to drop “SUSE” - their [SUSE] branding - from their [OpneSUSE] name.
What was the reason they don’t want to be associated anymore? Did Open SUSE do something to tarnish their reputation?
I haven’t seen information on that. Only speculations in comments here on Lemmy. I didn’t and don’t follow SUSE or this news closely though.
A commenter mentioned how SUSE has core business in hosting and business environment, while OpenSUSE userbase is more desktop and [non-paying?] end-user.
There wasn’t (to me anyway) strong arguments for why they do. Maybe they just want to get rid of the investment, and don’t see enough gain in the good publicity and it as an entry point to them anymore.
