Name my OS for me

ubergeek · Post by **ubergeek** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:22 am

Hi all, I'm looking to name my OS. Everything I've come up with is either stupid, already taken, or a Spanish expletive (kidding).

So, you yes you are going to name my OS for me. Go for it.

Brynet-Inc · Post by **Brynet-Inc** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:27 am

Call it "Brynet-Inc OS", I won't mind

Seriously, name your own project

.. mindlessly pressing keys on your keyboard works wonders..

cg123 · Post by **cg123** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:29 am

How about George? George is a pretty good name, I think.

Candy · Post by **Candy** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:39 am

ubergeek wrote:Hi all, I'm looking to name my OS. Everything I've come up with is either stupid, already taken, or a Spanish expletive (kidding). So, you yes you are going to name my OS for me. Go for it.

EstupidOS?

[edit] Score! All three: http://osestupidos.blogspot.com/ [/edit]

01000101 · Post by **01000101** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:44 am

pOSt (pointeless Operating System title)

RedEagle · Post by **RedEagle** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 12:37 pm

There are many greek gods, who have the ending os

=> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griechische_Mythologie
(At the english version of this article werer no lists of the names, so you have to look at the german)

[...]or a Spanish expletive (kidding)[...]

May OS's calles "RedEagle OperatingSystem" or short "REOS"
reos (spanish) -> Defendants

os64dev · Post by **os64dev** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:17 pm

yanos = yet another nameless operating system
oswan = operating system without a name

nice temporary names until you found a good name

astrocrep · Post by **astrocrep** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 1:58 pm

Thats what I did...

Just called mine: kernel2 because it was my second rewrite... naming wasn't that important to me.

-Rich

jerryleecooper · Post by **jerryleecooper** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:12 pm

Kernotil, Wozdev, Maxidos, Wonderdos, etc

Aali · Post by **Aali** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:24 pm

just go with a stupid name

like Phj33r OS
that one is taken though

piranha · Post by **piranha** » Mon Oct 22, 2007 5:42 pm

I named mine after a geographical object (geological...? I don't know)

SeaOS is mine's name.

-JL

XCHG · Post by **XCHG** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 12:35 am

Personally, I hate (and won't use) any Operating System whose name ends with OS. CrapOS, MyOS, NewOS, WhatTheHellOS. I think an OS should be able to make its own name so if you even call it Crap, then people will immediately think of a good OS rather than the word Crap itself.

Solar · Post by **Solar** » Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:42 am

My advice: Don't name your OS before you're ready for the 1.0 release. Chose some "project name", and worry about the "shelf name" of your OS later. Think "Chicago" (Windows 95), "Longhorn" (Windows Vista), or "Leopard" (Apple)...

No matter how "cool" a well-chosen name might be, chances are very good that your choice is already taken by a bigger hobby project or even corporation, or will be taken by the time you are ready for release (i.e., 5-25 years from now). Then you can choose to either sue them about it (fat chance), using the same name as a more prominent other project (and risk getting sued), or choosing a different name anyway.

And you want to have the web domain to go with your OS, won't you? Do you really want to pay domain registration for years just to keep your choice of today "free"?

(Unless I am alone with this thought, I'd like to add this to the Wiki, as it's definitely a FAQ item.)

atmb4u · Post by **atmb4u** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 9:52 am

How abt "Bingo"
for project name, i prefer ***mont(palmont,richmont...) or check the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... code_names

JackScott · Post by **JackScott** » Sat Oct 27, 2007 7:56 pm

Solar wrote:Unless I am alone with this thought, I'd like to add this to the Wiki, as it's definitely a FAQ item.

Go for it. There's already a section in the article 'Beginner Mistakes' called Naming.

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