I've been reticent to say anything as a newcomer, but a six syllable name doesn't exactly roll off the tip of the tongue. Not to mention, any relevance to "Indiana" is probably lost upon a broader audience.
"Open" is pretty played out as a prefix. The whole thing should be two, maybe three syllables at most. Pfft. Done. I'll still use it even if it's called Antidisestablishmentarianix. But it'll be a tough sell to the boss. (PS I was in this same discussion years ago when a Linux distribution changed its name from cAosity to CentOS. I think you know the rest.) -M On Jun 20, 2011, at 8:10 PM, Blake wrote: > :) > > Clearly this is the sort of thing that the OpenIndiana group must choose to > do, if they agree. I'll reiterate - I love OpenIndiana, and I want it to be > easily name-dropped and recognizable to even the hobbyist crowd. These are > the folks who can help fix things in userland and the GUI. If we really > want mindshare, that is. > > > Blake > > > > > On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Garrett D'Amore <garr...@damore.org> wrote: > >> You're not alone. >> >> - Garrett >> >> On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 16:53 -0700, Blake wrote: >>> Does anyone besides me feel that we need a more unified >>> naming/branding approach for the community-driven descendants of >>> OpenSolaris? I feel that the there is no obvious connection (for those >>> new to the platform) between Illumos/OpenIndiana, which I think is >>> counterproductive given that OpenIndiana is sort of the 'Fedora Core' >>> of Illumos. >>> >>> >>> Some possible names: >>> >>> >>> Illumos Live >>> >>> >>> Illumos Core >>> >>> >>> Illumos [version_number] - [adjective] [animal] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> (kidding about the last one) >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> I think OpenIndiana is great, I just don't think that the name >>> 'Indiana' means anything to anyone and isn't very memorable. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Blake >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Discuss mailing list >>> disc...@lists.illumos.org >>> http://lists.illumos.org/m/listinfo/discuss >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
