What are some good name suggestions for the rebranding of OpenSuse?
1y 10mon ago by slrpnk.net/u/Sunny in linux@programming.dev from lists.opensuse.org
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.
OSOSOS
but 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
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
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
Debiain't
OpenSüß
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All Linux names are no longer valid as they're all GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux if you're into that.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.
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.
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.
Sussy
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)
anything with an obvious pronunciation
OpenSusan
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.
OpenAnuse
Maybe MelanoOS (named after melanophore cells that allow chameleons to change color)
OpenSesame
OpenSus
I don't use openSUSE. What are its strong points? As in, why would someone use openSUSE instead of another distro?
From the openSUSE wiki and DistroWatch, it seems to me that the distro's goals are the following:
- easy to use
- easy to contribute with
- good balance between stability and new features
- flexibility (see YaST)
Name the distro after those points. Or concepts playing with those points. "Chameleon" (as suggested by others here) seems to be a fun start.
Some Pros
Out of the box it has BTRFS snapshotting for every change you make to packages or config. So any problems or mistakes you just rollback a step at boot and if all is good you issue a command to keep that as your default boot.
Yast2 GUI GTK means you have full GUI for admin of everything. If you don't find packages in a repo you can find user package repos or binaries at software.opensuse.org and use Yast1 Click install to add them in. For somebody coming from Windows that doesn't feel confortable in the CLI this can be very helpful.
They have an openbuild service and openQA so a lot of testing is done automatically on packages, together with shared binaries with SUSE means a very stable OS that rarely has issues.
CONs
it is really an underated distro so often doesn't get the visibility it should to attract more contributors or apps thqt exist on another distro
The Yast2 GUI is something every distro needs imo. I think there were like 2 things I had to configure from the terminal on openSUSE with everything else being readily accessible from the Yast2 Management Apps. Even as someone comfortable with CLI this is a godsend of a feature.
Exactly, I know my way around zypper commands, but being able to search a few characters of a package name and then just click check boxes for install is super nice--especially with the additional clicks giving you upgrade, lock or downgrade options
It also comes with a good kde out of the box.
Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy Chamel
Gecko Linux
But its a chameleon.
Spiderlinux
That already exists
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
What about ChameleOS?
pronounced "Kam"
C'mon we all know the first syllable of "chameleon" is pronounced "cum"
OROL
Reptix
Reptilian Linux
ReptilianOS
Chama Linux is the obvious answer
The suggestions I liked here were ChameleOS, ZagrOS, and Opus
Opus? Copyrighted?
It's trendy to rebrand things with an X.
Let's call it X.
plz no
OpenX?
OpenZuse
I wasn't aware that this thing was even sold outside of France.
Zeus
Lizix
Lizard Linux
Green fedora
G'dora
Larry
Enterprise Linux
OpenSesame
Or just Sesame.
Mark
Oh hai Mark!
OpenSUSAME
OpenZusee
openZeus lol
I think they should allow themselves to give a whole new name, as if you were starting your own distro. How would you like to name it? Go for it.
GreenPenisOS
Kamux ir Khamux, to pair the chameleon mascot with that typical KDE K on everything
VertOS or GrunOS
Name it Soos and be done with it.
Sorry dude
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")
Edit: I hope whoever downvoted this extracts their head from their backside long enough to actually say something. There really should be some sort of punishment for people who silently downvote things that contain no clear controversy. A special hell for them to just glare at each other in, maybe.
OpenBoozy/OpenBooza
BundleGreen
I Can't Believe It's Not SUSE!
OpenS-USE (Abbreviation from Open Source - Use)
Chameleons are masters of camouflage, Camo Linux?
They hiss when they’re pissed. Hiss Linux? SSSSSlinux? What about Prehensiletongix?
chameleon?
CrowdSuse
OpenDistro Leap/Tumbleweed/Aeon/...
OpenDistro should identify the community tools used for building the various distro. One distinctive aspect of OpenSUSE is how it is easy to create new distro, or custom repositories. So it should be the focus of the new naming scheme.
Just leave it at OpenSUSE and fight for the name. We should not truckle to such a company.
Zyppos
TumbleOS
OpenLeon
SuSL1
a sus linux? count me in!
How about something without a pun or clever hidden meaning for a change?
Also no cute animal mascots, get a proper abstract logo.
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
Thank God you're here! How come they didn't think about this before? You're a genius!
You are welcome