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Also SUSE: OpenSUSE needs to change their name because we say so
There's always been the risk of confusion and openSUSE project seemed to have understood that SUSE could disallow the name at any moment. A name change does make sense for both. Especially now that even Leap might be distancing itself from SLE and whatnot.
Agreed, but GeekOS or whatever it was they had on that oSC slide ... Cheesus, they can do better than that.
Yeah, I get the mascot's name is Geeko, so maybe that is where they're getting GeekOS. But I think I read that the mascot has to go together with the name anyway.
On recent performance, no they can't. I mean, they had the chance to use Driftwood and went with Slowroll.
There is no "current proposal" at this point.
What about the proposal to just drop the name openSUSE with no replacement? And let each distro just be called Tumbleweed, Leap, Aeon, etc.
That could be a branding strategy, I guess, but the community project behind it will still need a name of some kind obviously. Unless they only want to show up at conferences/have a website url etc as "the project whose name shall not be mentioned".
Go the Prince route, "the project formerly known as OpenSUSE".
Then make SUSE become ClosedSUSE. It couldn't be easier.
To be fair, OpenSUSE is the only project with a name like that, so it makes some sense that they'd want it changed.
There's no OpenRedHat, no OpenNovell, no OpenLinspire, etc.
Maybe they should go with OpenGecko or OpenChameleon
OpenGeeko?
OpenLinux
OpenUnix
OpenJDK
OpenWatcom
OpenWebOS
OpenVMS
OpenOffice
OpenTF, briefly.
I think OpenNovell was a thing too.
Thing is, 'Open-' was the prefix for a LOT of derivations about 20 years ago. I'm surprised you've never heard of any.
Not at all what my point was. There's indeed plenty of Open-something (or Libre-something) projects under the sun, but no free/open spins of commercial projects named simply "Open<Trademarked company name / commercial offering>".
Definitely getting into pedantry now, sorry - but OpenSuse isn't strictly a free version of Suse. Like RHEL, there are some proprietary and commercially restricted software in Suse that doesn't reappear - verbatim - in OpenSuse.
And it's still entirely unrelated to my point, since SUSE will remain the trademark in question regardless of what's actually contained in OpenSUSE.
But yes, the free/open-source spins of things tend to have somewhat differing content compared to the commercial offering, usually for licensing or support reasons.
E.g. CentOS (when it still was a real thing)/AlmaLinux/etc supporting hardware that regular RHEL has dropped support for, while also not distributing core RedHat components like the subscription manager.
You couldn’t throw a ball without hitting something branded as “Open” in that era.
LibreLinux
FreeSystemd
I should call it Bella Linux
PS: in reference to my MC in Zenless Zone Zero
Belladeez nuts
Fukkin gottem