Update: Re-branding Ubuntu Eee
I’ve been contacted by Canonical, owner of Ubuntu, because of Ubuntu Eee’s obious resemblance to the Ubuntu name and logo. Read the e-mail here.
I have kind of been waiting for this. What they’re saying is that we need to re-brand Ubuntu Eee: new logo, new name and new domain. They’re really kind in the email and allow us to use their marketing team for our new logo. They’re not that stricked with the new name and domain neither. We can even call it Ubuntu for Eee if we want.
But as we’re increasing our scope and are working on being the obvious choice for any netbook owner, we will ned a new name and logo anyway. This is where you, dear reader, come into the picture. We need a great name for our great distro. Please comment with your ideas! I’m not going to say that no ideas are stupid, ’cause some are, but that’s not a problem! :) Please share any idea!
Personally I don’t like names which mean something. Like Ubuntu Eee, which only says: It’s Ubuntu for the Asus Eee. And not like Netbook OS. Or Ububook. I like Mint linux’s name. Doesn’t say a thing about the the OS.
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what about
- Kiwi
- Colibri
- net
- u-net
- u-lite
- unet-book
- u-book
?
ummm Linooks or Linbooks otehr ideas equate to stuff like Leaf OS … anyway i dunno then. sorry to hear about the letter.
What about “shadow” as a name – if nobody else has proposed it? Actually Ubuntu for Eee is quite acceptable. Couldn’t you use a fragmented Ubuntu logo as if it were bitten into with Eee occupying the missing space. Sorry, I’m not that artistic :\
here’s a list of ideas (words more like):
torrid
avalanche
lolita*
crow
exodus
lacuna
owl
brobdignagian (mind the irony)
kite
deus
hegira (variation on ‘exodus’)
Tacit
∆
·
dante
iris
eris (cool, but not very practical)
that’s about it for now. You have my mail if you want more :)
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*prinneh@Lolita: Light on my knees, cold to my touch. My sin, my soul. Lo-leee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palette to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Leee. Ta.
It is Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, displaying seven inches in two pounds. It is Lola running unbuntu. It is Dolly booting at lectures. It was White Asus EE 4 G B on the dotted digital line. But in my arms it was always Lolita.
Did it have a precursor? It did, indeed it did. In point of fact, I might have brought no Lolita at all had I not loved, one summer, a certain initial subnotebook. In a kingdom by the sea. Oh when? About as many months before Lolita was manufactured as my e-penis was in length that summer. You can always count on a blog-commentator for a fancy prose style.
(Ladies and gentle)men of the internet, exhibit #1 is what my classmates, the technologically crippled, but noble-minded classmates, envied. Behold this lack of thorns:
BuntuBox? It reminds me of Bento Box, sort of japanese food box, so colorful and pretty. like your distribution.
Right on!
What about “ThreeeBuntu”, “ThreeBuntu”, “3Buntu”, “3eBuntu”?
And three elefants (yellow, orange, brown) as a logo.
Micha, I don’t know what it involves, but I guess the team is some full time, full education, designers who got great ideas and know how, which they will share with us :)
Ramvi OS, I love it! :p
Lots of great ideas – please keep them coming!
I’m sorry reading all this about.
What exactly do they mean by:
“allow us to use their marketing team for our new logo” ?
I like the “Ramvi OS” suggestion – without the OS perhaps.
Why not RAMVIX :-\ or
AEON
Im looking forward.
Or perhaps,
T’eee’mRamvi
- since there is the community team support as well :)
netbuntu? mixbuntu?
ramvi? electric hedgehog?
bob? (ok, i’m free associating now. )
if you are expanding the scope of the distro, you want something that doesn’t PRECLUDE other netbook platforms. leaving the ‘eee’ out of the name will make it easier for folks not to dismiss your distro as “just for the eee” and missing out.
heck call it “marie” after your darling coffee angel!
Obviously it should be called:
Ramvi OS
Why don’t call it: Netboontu
it sounds like Netbuntu (and no trademark are broken, I guess), it is referred to netbook world and it is explicit netbook + ubuntu word…
The logo would be a stylized world or (just to refer to ubuntu word), the African continent…
ciao
Here is my suggestion
Narcis
Cause for us this is The One and Only system for our EEE (or notebooks), and it is the most beautiful one ;)
Logo should represent some kind of flower, with different colors
I think just domain would be a problem.. but it should be fine in combination with some other word (like os, operating system, linux…=
Hi,
I also think the name “eeebuntu” works fine!
I call my install USB-memory EEENSTALL.
Its just a tips!
as the project is expanding to other netbooks i don’t think “eee” should be included in the name.
just some thoughts:
swift
kiwi
elementary
“gnomix”? Sort of right associations in several ways .
Or “tuxedo”?
Or even “tuxeeedo” – but that’s only right for eee, and you did not like something specific for eee.
Finally, there is also “eeebuntu”
I´m with Andy on this one, who proposed Ubunteee(eeebuntu already exists).
I think that “eee” should be in the name in some way.
Why not drop Ubuntu from the name and call it EEEnux or LEEEnux.
sugest: evagoras
Since NetBooks are small and light I’m thinking a name along those veins would be good:
*Widget
*Ion
*Aurora
*Neon
Names that wouldn’t work (for fun):
*Anvil
*Brick (Brikux :)
*Ton
*Chrome ;)
These words wouldn’t be the easiest to Google though. So you may want an original name like Widgux (which sounds like some foreign dish- Widgucks with tartar sauce).
What about UbuntEee? Or maybe Eeentu?
How about Linair (Linux+Air). Netbooks are thin and light.And the perfet OS for them is linux.
You could also use slogan “thin and light.” To me it describes perfectly netbooks.In logo light an futuristic font should be used. As far as it comes to logo it should be something that creates image in viewer about something light and perhaps thin.
Maybe you should drop any Ubuntu from name and switch to something new. Maybe, “Vulcan” as primary name, so it distributions may look like VulcanOS, Vulcan.EEE, VulcanOne (for acer) etc…
Why, “Ubuntu Eee-mix”, of course. :-)
Sorry to hear about the email. How about any of the following:
” UbuEee , UbuAtom , UbuLight ”
Sorry If I am not to clever. I am more of a systems person. Then, a Creative Services person :)