Idears for names

[TheUnbeliever]

SuperstringOS?

[Crazed123]

Too long, I think. Think, Crazed, think...

MepOS
KrikkitOS
VogOS
WirelOS
IdeaOS
DemocrOS
Thrannix
Digitalis
BlackHolix.

[Pype.Clicker]

pick up Grandma's Scrabble, get 7 random letters and see what you can do with that ...

And please ... not another *OS or another *nix (unless you're explicitly doing Yet Another Unix in which case i suggest 'YANIX' )

[fraserjgordon]

And then there is the whole Microsoft-like shenanigins of giving your OS versions codenames that are related to ski resorts...
(Longhorn is an apres ski bar I think)

Currently, my OS just boots saying "Operating System Version 0.0.2 booting..." Saves thinking of the name!

[AR]

Actually that's a new trend, previous versions were actually named after mountains (Windows XP = Whistler) in the same area as the bar. Those don't really count as official names though, Microsoft just took the obvious route (GUI has windows, call OS Windows [although it was originally a DOS shell]) then just stick the version/year after the name (Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 2000).

[Crazed123]

Smiley
MEP
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (It could happen!)
PC Boy
Originality
FireGate if you're building a high-security OS
Dominia

[travfar]

Hi!

How about Osmium. It is some element on the periodic table and it is abbrieviated Os. So your OS's name could be Osmium and it would be abbrieviated OsOS. Kind of catchy...

Travfar

[Crazed123]

Kind of like Unununium. Fun. Gotta take a look at that periodic table, seems to have lots of OS name ideas.

Marx
Smith
Dewey
Huxley
Charlemagne
Synchrotron
Locke
Hobbes
HAL
Gravitic
Eddie
TLA (stands for Three Letter Acronym)
Lehrer
Arizmendiarietta

[distantvoices]

You better not take BlueIllusion for that's the name of my pet project.

I've christened my os to this name just for the sake of it. *chuckle* And no, there ain't no BSOD's.

[Schol-R-LEA]

I originally was going to name my system JanOS, after John Von Neumann ('Janos' is the Hungarian form of 'John'), but I later found that the name was taken. I have since settled on the name 'Thelema', which is Greek for 'will'; I chose it to as a snarky joke at the expense of some friends of mine who are into Ceremonial Magick, but decided it was an appropriate name for something meant to act as a mental prosthesis. Make of that what you will.

[mystran]

I have since settled on the name 'Thelema',

Be careful with that one, or you might anger several kinds of small furry... em.. several kinds of organizations, which ofcourse do not really exist for real, but might nonetheless be offended by your usage of such a word for such an unmystical thing.. or they might not.. or they might and might not, or any of the other possible permutations.

As a side note, I think I'm losing my sanity... which ofcourse has been happening for .. like 15 years now.. which ofcourse is purely co-incidental with the fact that I've been programming for about the same time.. except I claimed at least one of these things already a few years back, so it's possible that I'm slightly confused in this matter of absolutely no significancy.

I wonder if I should name an operating system plainly as "Insanity - and all that other wonderful stuff that follows once you've finally broken out of the chains of so-called logical thinking" or maybe "Insanity - aatowstfoyfbootcosclt" for short. Add or substract a few letters if you will.

PS. When will you, Schol-R-LEA, give us a preview of what you've written (namely OS code)? I'd be curious to see. And please excuse me if I've simply missed any and all of it.

[Solar]

My recommendation: Give your project a name (like, ThomasSoft, or YummyDevelopments or something), and pick a "handle" name for the OS, something you can call your system while you're working on it. Never mind what to call it when you're finished.

One, the finish line is still years off. Whatever you come up with today is most likely outfashioned, taken by a bigger company, or simply no longer a smart name by the time you go v1.0.

Two, the "cooler" your name is at this point, the less impressed people will be when they find what your v0.0.6 does (or rather, does not). The "coolness" also wears off in the years passing till v1.0 day.

For example, I chose to name my (discontinued) kernel project "Foundation" (including the quotes), and that was what we called it when talking about it. (The OS was monikered "Perfection".) We'd have decided on a catching OS name when reaching beta phase of the v1.0 package.

The big'uns do it the same. "Whisper" or "Longhorn" come to mind. You never know what would be a good name by the time you're done with your work.

[Pype.Clicker]

in other words, pick any catchy names that suits you as codename and let your marketting&sales dept' chose a name that'll suits customers when time will come

[distantvoices]

Names have no magic in this world. (Only in LeGuins Earth Sea)
So go on and deal with the magic of will, determinedness and creativity ... No need to think soooo much about catchy names *rofl*

So, in this sense:
abra kadabra (grmml, int6 doesn't trigger ... *mmmpfmwhereisthewarpbutton*)
simsalabim (cpu triplefault *whattheheck*)
kapof (throwing it outta window and doing sports should be DEFINITELY better currently *flatteninghair*)

Just my two eurocent of nonsense ];->

PS: if you've ever wondered about all the Towel-references in Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy: I've recently read something about: The non-Hitchhikers seeing you approaching with the Towel will assume that you have everything else (shaver, socks, matches, flannel, coffee mill etc) with you, and so he will, in case you miss something (or have forgotten?!) lend you one or more of all these things. So, lads, I recommend ya to always know where your towels are, eh?

PSII: @Solar: You 've ever encountered the expression "bl?merant"?

[Solar]

PSII: @Solar: You 've ever encountered the expression "bl?merant"?

Yes, in the meaning of "feeling fuzzy" ("mir ist ganz bl?merant zumute"). Why?