Considering the recent news/proposal from SUSE about OpenSUSE rebranding - what do you think would be some fitting names for the distro/community?
Corporate Friendly Non-Branded Linux. CFNB Linux for short
OpenBoozy/OpenBooza
BundleGreenOpenZuse
OpenSuze
I wasn’t aware that this thing was even sold outside of France.
OpenSesame
Or just Sesame.
chameleon?
OpenSüß
Chameleon linux
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.
It’s trendy to rebrand things with an X.
Let’s call it X.
plz no
OpenX?
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All Linux names are no longer valid as they’re all GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux if you’re into that.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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.)
TumbleOS
Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy ChamelI’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.
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.
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.