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What are some good name suggestions for the rebranding of OpenSuse? (lists.opensuse.org)

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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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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 120 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

[-] kibiz0r@midwest.social 32 points 5 months ago

With a new package manager named vent

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 6 points 5 months ago

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

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago

AmogOS

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[-] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 49 points 5 months ago

Green Hat

[-] superkret@feddit.org 20 points 5 months ago

Ubunot

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

Ubun't

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[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 46 points 5 months ago

[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@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

Love it

[-] maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone 36 points 5 months ago

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

Job done.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 39 points 5 months ago

OpenSUSE Open Source Operating System.
OSOSOS

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 11 points 5 months ago

but then alphabetize it for readability

OOOSSS

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

(OS)²

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Will cause confusion with people who remember os/2

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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 30 points 5 months ago

GeckoOS

or my personal favourite, OpenSUS

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 months ago

GeckOS

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[-] Bitflip@lemmy.ml 27 points 5 months ago

OpenSueMe

[-] F04118F@feddit.nl 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

OpenSauce

ChameLinux
ChameleOS
OpenCamo
OpenChamo

Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce

SauceOS
OpenSauce
SaucyOS

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[-] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 5 months ago

Debiain't

[-] TheV2@programming.dev 14 points 5 months ago

OpenSüß

[-] canpolat@programming.dev 13 points 5 months ago

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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[-] Zier@fedia.io 13 points 5 months ago

Any name that does not contain an animal.

[-] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 points 5 months ago

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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[-] palordrolap@kbin.run 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.

[-] 5redie8@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago

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

[-] radivojevic@discuss.online 11 points 5 months ago

anything with an obvious pronunciation

[-] uservoid1@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Sussy

[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

OpenSusan

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 5 months ago

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@programming.dev 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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

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[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 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)

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

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

[-] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 9 points 5 months ago

Chameleon linux

[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 months ago

OpenAnuse

[-] lvxferre@mander.xyz 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

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.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 16 points 5 months ago

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

[-] neshura@bookwormstory.social 7 points 5 months ago

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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[-] Abnorc@lemm.ee 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.