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Considering the recent news/proposal from SUSE about OpenSUSE rebranding - what do you think would be some fitting names for the distro/community?

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
    47·
    4 months ago

    [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.

  • F04118F@feddit.nl
    26·
    4 months ago

    OpenSauce

    • ChameLinux
    • ChameleOS
    • OpenCamo
    • OpenChamo

    Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce

    • SauceOS
    • OpenSauce
    • SaucyOS
  • canpolat@programming.devEnglish
    14·
    4 months ago

    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.

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
          5·
          4 months ago

          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.)
          • Blisterexe@lemmy.zip
            10·
            4 months ago

            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.”

            • BB_C@programming.dev
              3·
              4 months ago

              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.

            • LeFantome@programming.dev
              1·
              4 months ago

              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.

  • palordrolap@kbin.run
    13·
    4 months ago

    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.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 months ago

    OS² (Open SUSE OS).

    Might have some copyright issues with OS/2 though.

    Whatever you do, keep the logo. It is good.

    Edit : Another suggestion: YALOS (Yet Another Linux OS)

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 months ago

    This is my analysis of the situation: The name OpenSUSE is bad marketing and does need to change. I remember when I was choosing my distro the name was downright off-putting and made me initially overlook it as an option. It does not do OpenSUSE any favors.

    The mascot and logo are very good, however. It is a solid design. Easily recognizable, somewhat cute and friendly looking. I even made it my app launcher menu button because I liked it so much.

    The problem is that it is very difficult to base marketable name based on a chameleon. “ChamOS” or “Linux Cham” (pronounced “Kam” ), seems like a logical choice. However, people would just pronounce it “sham”, which isn’t making it any favors. You would have to drop the “H”.

    Ultimately, the name has to follow the conventions of other distros. Such as “linux X” or “X OS”, where X is an easily pronounceable name with preferably fewer syllables.

    My suggestion for names that would relate to the logo :

    • CamOS (already suggested by someone else)
    • Linux Green