Considering the recent news/proposal from SUSE about OpenSUSE rebranding - what do you think would be some fitting names for the distro/community?
OpenSueMe
Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy ChamelAny 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All Linux names are no longer valid as they’re all GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux if you’re into that.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.
OpenSUSAME
Enterprise Linux
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.
OpenZusee
openZeus lol
The proposed “GeekOS” is a horrid name but Geeko Linux could work. But would be confusing with the existing GeckoLinux
Also maybe mixuppable with Guix https://guix.gnu.org/ (which I’ve heard is pronounced “Geeks”)
Name it Soos and be done with it.
Green fedora
OpenSesame
Or just Sesame.
Irrelevant and unused
I don’t understand why they are shooting themselves in the foot
Clearly you don’t understand any fucking thing about the topic. SUSE, the IT corporation from which openSUSE derives its name, has a similar relationship to that of Redhat and Fedora. They aren’t shooting themselves in the foot, their benefactor wants them to rebrand so that openSUSE isn’t branded the same as the IT product that SUSE sells.
The problem is that’s the way its been for a long time. Changing the brand now destroys the brand recognition and will harm only them.
You make it sound like they have a choice in the matter. They don’t.
They do
Suse is forcing it
If you were any more dense you’d implode into a fucking singularity.
Thank God you’re here! How come they didn’t think about this before? You’re a genius!
OpenReptileOverlord
OROL
OpenS-USE (Abbreviation from Open Source - Use)
It’s trendy to rebrand things with an X.
Let’s call it X.
OpenX?
plz no
