I totally agree. OpenIndiana describes the distro quite well, since it is the opensource bits of the Solaris Indiana release; but the reference is totally lost to anyone not familiar with what OpenSolaris was.
I think a Sun reference would be fitting. EclipseOS maybe? Can we put up a page on the wiki to record suggestions and vote on it after we get a few? Jake On Jun 20, 2011, at 8:44 PM, Magnus <mag...@yonderway.com> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
