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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?

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

With a new package manager named vent

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

If there's a package conflict that requires the user's choice, it shall be called an emergency meeting

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 5 months ago (1 children)

[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.

[–] lambda 7 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 months ago (5 children)

If you shorten OpenSUSE to OS, then add OS to the end (shorthand for operating system), you get OSOS.

Job done.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago (1 children)

OpenSUSE Open Source Operating System.
OSOSOS

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

but then alphabetize it for readability

OOOSSS

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

GeckoOS

or my personal favourite, OpenSUS

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

OpenSauce

  • ChameLinux
  • ChameleOS
  • OpenCamo
  • OpenChamo

Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce

  • SauceOS
  • OpenSauce
  • SaucyOS
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[–] canpolat 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Any name that does not contain an animal.

[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks 7 points 5 months ago (6 children)

All Linux names are no longer valid as they're all GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux if you're into that.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

anything with an obvious pronunciation

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

IDC what it is but they can pry that chameleon from my cold dead hands

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] Kissaki 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

After years of support and collaboration, SUSE asked OpenSUSE to drop “SUSE” - their [SUSE] branding - from their [OpneSUSE] name.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Chameleon linux

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Maybe MelanoOS (named after melanophore cells that allow chameleons to change color)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

I’m not an expert by any means, but I mostly liked it. The included GUI tools for configuration and settings were nice, and it worked pretty well out of the box. I stopped using it because I got a little tired of having to repack the RPM package for Mullvad VPN, and I switched to something more mainstream. Sometimes I think about going back though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Corporate Friendly Non-Branded Linux. CFNB Linux for short

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy Chamel

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Chama Linux is the obvious answer

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