Considering the recent news/proposal from SUSE about OpenSUSE rebranding - what do you think would be some fitting names for the distro/community?
- spujb ( @spujb@lemmy.cafe ) English81•2 months ago
- kibiz0r ( @kibiz0r@midwest.social ) English25•2 months ago
With a new package manager named vent
- JustARegularNerd ( @JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ) English4•2 months ago
If there’s a package conflict that requires the user’s choice, it shall be called an emergency meeting
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 6•2 months ago
AmogOS
- spujb ( @spujb@lemmy.cafe ) English4•2 months ago
already exists, amazingly
- Lvxferre ( @lvxferre@mander.xyz ) 36•2 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.
- λλλ ( @lambda@programming.dev ) 6•2 months ago
Love it
- maniacalmanicmania ( @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ) 30•2 months ago
If you shorten OpenSUSE to OS, then add OS to the end (shorthand for operating system), you get OSOS.
Job done.
- superkret ( @superkret@feddit.org ) 31•2 months ago
OpenSUSE Open Source Operating System.
OSOSOS- spujb ( @spujb@lemmy.cafe ) English9•2 months ago
but then alphabetize it for readability
OOOSSS
- maniacalmanicmania ( @maniacalmanicmania@aussie.zone ) 3•2 months ago
@superkret@feddit.org @spujb@lemmy.cafe The beauty of these options is that pronunciations will continue to differ the way folks pronounce OpenSUSE differently.
Is OSOS pronounced as oh-sos or os-os?
Is OSOSOS pronounced as os-os-os or as oh-sos–sos or as oh-so–sos?
Is OOOSSS pronounced as ooze or as oo-ss or as o-se?
- josefo ( @josefo@leminal.space ) 4•2 months ago
Means “bears” in spanish
bearOS
- Dizzy Devil Ducky ( @AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) English3•2 months ago
Would OSOS be a recursive name like AROS (Amiga Research Operating System, changed to AROS Research Operating System)?
- boredsquirrel ( @boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net ) 28•2 months ago
GeckoOS
or my personal favourite, OpenSUS
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 5•2 months ago
GeckOS
- jjagaimo ( @jjagaimo@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
GeckoOS is unfortunately also taken
- F04118F ( @F04118F@feddit.nl ) 23•2 months ago
OpenSauce
- ChameLinux
- ChameleOS
- OpenCamo
- OpenChamo
Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce
- SauceOS
- OpenSauce
- SaucyOS
- jjagaimo ( @jjagaimo@lemmy.ca ) 3•2 months ago
You will find that opensauce is already in use albeit not for an os
- Bitflip ( @Bitflip@lemmy.ml ) 23•2 months ago
OpenSueMe
- canpolat ( @canpolat@programming.dev ) English13•2 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.
- ericjmorey ( @ericjmorey@programming.dev ) 2•2 months ago
Rename the project Chameleon and keep calling Tumbleweed and Leap by their distribution names.
- TheV2 ( @TheV2@programming.dev ) 13•2 months ago
OpenSüß
- palordrolap ( @palordrolap@kbin.run ) 11•2 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.
- Lime Buzz (fae/she) ( @SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org ) 9•2 months ago
Chameleon linux
- radivojevic ( @radivojevic@discuss.online ) 9•2 months ago
anything with an obvious pronunciation
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 8•2 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 ( @Kissaki@programming.dev ) English10•2 months ago
After years of support and collaboration, SUSE asked OpenSUSE to drop “SUSE” - their [SUSE] branding - from their [OpneSUSE] name.
- some_guy ( @some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ) 2•2 months ago
What was the reason they don’t want to be associated anymore? Did Open SUSE do something to tarnish their reputation?
- Kissaki ( @Kissaki@programming.dev ) English3•2 months ago
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.
- Lvxferre ( @lvxferre@mander.xyz ) 8•2 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 ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 15•2 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 ( @neshura@bookwormstory.social ) English7•2 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.
- BCsven ( @BCsven@lemmy.ca ) 2•2 months ago
Exactly, I know my way around zypper commands, but being able to search a few characters of a package name and then just click check boxes for install is super nice–especially with the additional clicks giving you upgrade, lock or downgrade options
- Abnorc ( @Abnorc@lemm.ee ) 5•2 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.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English8•2 months ago
Corporate Friendly Non-Branded Linux. CFNB Linux for short
- reagansrottencorpse ( @reagansrottencorpse@lemmy.ml ) 7•2 months ago
OpenSesame