Update: Re-branding Ubuntu Eee

Wow, thanks for the amazing response! 40 comments per day and several logo concepts. Truly amazing

Here’s the names I like – which do you like? Why?

LinAir by Kaien – Linux + Air
Fjord by Mimir – Norwegian (wikipedia)
Rune by Mimir – Norwegian tradition (wikipedia)
Flock by Daniel – We’re all working in a flock / community
Frost by Daniel – Just a nice word
Maroon by Marie – Color. Just a nice word
Ion by Clint – For small machines / netbooks
Aurora by Clint – Just a nice word. Kind of taken (wikipedia)
Swift by capawi – It’s swift
kiwi by capawi – Fruit or Bird. Just a nice word
Ramvi OS by Mattias – Me :)
Owl by dresler – Bird. Just a nice word
Iris by dresler – Eye or flower. Just a nice word
Colibri by McGivrer – Bird. Just a nice word
Troll by Thomas – Norwegian myth (wikipedia)
Urban by mikó – Because netbooks are urban? ;)

Popularity: 62% [?]

September 13th, 2008 | EasyPeasy, Norwegian

163 comments

I like Maroon. Maroon sounds nice and soft. In German this is the name of a mushroom. I like it.

Rune and Urban are also good.

Comment by Hans Meiser — December 11, 2008 @ 9:59 pm

Bunteee, Buntee, Bunty

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunty

Comment by J — December 11, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

I’d simply call the distro Peeecix – refers to both netbook hardware and -ix OS.

Comment by Peter Muller — December 4, 2008 @ 3:40 pm

I like “kiwi”. Makes me think “small” (like a netbook). But also probably tasty (never actually eaten the fruit). Oh, and it could also mean someone from NZ.. :D

Comment by mindsystem — December 3, 2008 @ 2:41 am

how about Neeet?
“Net” stretched
I will now retire.

Comment by inkdan — December 2, 2008 @ 9:00 am

I like Urban, followed by Ion. Words that are not made up sound better. And shorter is better than longer. Urban Linux, Urban OS. “My Eee PC runs on Urban.” “This isn’t the Linux the Eee comes with; it’s Ion.” They work, I think.

Comment by Emmanuel — November 30, 2008 @ 2:08 am

How about Leanux?

Comment by Dr.Infosec — November 29, 2008 @ 3:33 pm

How about Ebente? Like Ubuntu, but with Uuu taken out and replaced with Eee?

Seriously, there’s one staring us right in the face – Wheee! The sound you make when having fun on a ride at a fun park.

Of course, if you want to steer clear of “Eee” to target other mini-laptops, you could always use “Mini Linux”. This will end up being a fork, won’t it?

Comment by dikkii — November 29, 2008 @ 3:08 pm

Just downloading the newest version, got my eee901 yesterday and loving it already, cant wait to see it without the kinder egg desktop.

Rune really stood out for me when I saw your list, but Fjord and Ion both sound very cool too.

If you wanted a more geeky tint then there are a few cool words from the world of physics like: boson, baryon, hadron etc

Comment by KFC — November 26, 2008 @ 5:06 pm

How about

“CitrOS”

Fresh and Fruity OS based on Linux. And you can create cool Logos/Labels for it.

Comment by Hans Meiser — November 25, 2008 @ 5:42 pm

Ubuntu Go

Comment by Sathyanarayana Dondeti — November 21, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

Yeah OSiris is an Egyptian god, I was running through too many thing at a late hour so i messed it up a bit, but still, OSiris is a good name and you will be able to make nice logos with it… :)

Comment by NetbookerN — November 15, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

There is allready Linux Kiwi – it is an inofficial Ubuntu version from Rumania and Hungary

Comment by Milan — November 15, 2008 @ 4:05 pm

I like OSiris, though it is an *egyptian* god ;)

Comment by flomar — November 14, 2008 @ 12:03 pm

what do you think about eeebunutu

Comment by nick — November 7, 2008 @ 6:17 pm

perhaps…OSeee ?!?!?

greetings from Italy!!!

Matteo

Comment by Matteo P. — November 5, 2008 @ 12:24 pm

This might be a great name for a great OS?

OSiris
- it was a greek god

or:

gOSiris
- gO as in mobility, (on the go), and Osiris as in god which would make the computer a mobil god… ;)

Thanks for a great OS!!

Comment by NetbookerN — November 5, 2008 @ 7:06 am

CLOUD – it is a name which indicates an airiness, a “higher” state while also referencing the CLOUD-Computing phenomenon.

Comment by Andreas Rönnqvist — October 28, 2008 @ 9:28 pm

This might have been suggested before, but I think it’s a nice substitute for Ion…
My suggestion: eeeOn (get On it, I’m On it, and so On…)

Comment by neilmcnasty — October 27, 2008 @ 7:27 pm

Hello Jon! :)

I haven’t read any comments yet, so I might be repeating someone else’s word, but here is my opinion:
(1) You need a name that is easy to remember. It might be easier if you come up with a some kind of “story”. I mean something like Ubuntu, which also is some kind of african philosophy. Windows and MacOS are self-explaining. Even the name Linux has a short story behind it.
(2) Stay away from anything with “Linux” in name. It will only scare not-so-experienced users away.

Maybe that wasn’t much, but I’m kind of tired right now. Nevertheless I think actually RamviOS is one of the best ones on the list. At first I thought it was a bit ridiculous, but it’s actually not so bad. It’s quite short, easy to remember, unique. Almost all the other suggestions are just too simple. Though I admit – I like “Iris”. I don’t know why, maybe it’s just a nice word :). But with that said, I don’t think you should name an OS something just because it’s a nice word.

Out of the top of my head – you should try a name with associations like “Home”, “Connection”, or “Internet”. I’m too tired to think right now, but with 40 comments a day, there should be someone that can come up with something.

So…good luck.

Comment by Robert Kolner — October 26, 2008 @ 3:47 am

I like Maya (as the mesoamerican civilization)!

Comment by ppyo — October 24, 2008 @ 10:31 pm

Thanks for your comments and ideas! I hope we find our new name soon enough..

There are a lot of great ideas. I’m not such a big fan of some kinds of names, and I’ll tell you why:
- somethEEEing. The three E’s. We’re going to support all kinds of Netbooks and the three E’s are misleading
- somethux. The tux / linux resemblance. Linux scares new users away. I want to stay as far away from linux as I can :p

Some are wondering why we aren’t not just sending our changes to Ubuntu; and there’s a good reason: Ubuntu Eee is much more than just some drivers thrown into the Ubuntu mix :)
Ubuntu will never come with messy drivers (which is why the EeePC isn’t supported) and Ubuntu will never come with closed source applications like Picasa and Skype. Ubuntu is working for the Open Source Foundation with promoting open source. Ubuntu Eee is working for it’s users with making the best operating system available (that’s the goal anyway)
It’s worth noting that paches and bug fixes we make ARE sent to Ubuntu. Adam, kernel developer, is doing an amazing job keeping them up to date with his latests work.

Christopher, TMS, I’m in the process of putting up a forum (http://forums.ubuntu-eee.com). It’s just that it would be stupid to use time on customizing it to the Ubuntu Eee design as we will have to change it anyway..

mikó, OK :) http://tinyurl.com/6d6naj

StraNNicK, thanks! I’ll take you up on that :) Thinking about a competition.

tone, thanks mom

Rawlyn, true. Urban is not a good name.

serola, trademark :(

Comment by Jon Ramvi — October 24, 2008 @ 2:05 pm

On this page there’s still false link to removed topic “UPDATE: Ubuntu Eee rebranded as ION”.

Jon, please let us know what is going on. Naming a child can be difficult, so maybe you should ask more help from your fans. Do we need a second round for re-branding?

Comment by Anonymous — October 22, 2008 @ 1:50 pm

One hit on http://www.google.com/search?q=eee-ubuntix&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

– Burt B.

Comment by Burt B. — October 21, 2008 @ 3:44 pm

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This sucks… :(

– Burt B.

Comment by Burt B. — October 21, 2008 @ 1:48 pm

Was decision to re-brand Ubuntu eee as Ion pulled back? Why?

Comment by serola — October 21, 2008 @ 11:30 am

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Pingback by Ubuntu Eee diventa ION « Sesto Potere - Il mio blog — October 21, 2008 @ 8:48 am

Ueee? ;-)

Comment by Lou — October 21, 2008 @ 3:55 am

Eostre http://www.godchecker.com/pantheon/norse-mythology.php?deity=EOSTRE

Comment by serola — October 20, 2008 @ 9:11 am

Where does this idea that eee’s are “urban” come from? I live in the beautiful countryside, and I own an eee. On top of that, everyone I know that owns an eee also lives in the country (most likely because most people I know live in the country, but still – it’s a fact).
To suggest that eee’s are a purely urban item is absolutely absurd, and seems to me like nothing more than an example of typical city-dweller arrogance.
I found Ubuntu for eee by searching “ubuntu eee” on the net. It does exactly what it says on the tin… And as they say, if it ain’t broke – don’t fix it!

Comment by Rawlyn — October 18, 2008 @ 10:47 pm

Pixie, it’s small, it’s fast and it’s full of fun.

Comment by ostro — October 18, 2008 @ 6:34 pm

People don’t seem to realize eeebuntu is already taken. Another Ubuntu for Eee project took that name. Though they’re not as big.

Comment by TCLe — October 17, 2008 @ 4:33 pm

EINU = EINU is not Ubuntu.

Also a form of “Number one” in
Icelandic.

Comment by Guy Macon — October 17, 2008 @ 6:02 am

I for one like the idea of it being called eeeBuntu but alas…

i have several idea for the intermittent phases for this distro as it grows. im not norwegian but here it goes…

for when it branches to all netbooks…
1. Nomad ([NomadOS, Nomadix] since you move around alot with a netbook. the logo could be a penguin, bear or reindeer dressed as a Sami).
2. Duodji (Again that nomadic Sami theme. also means usefulness, made for a purpose/function. [Duodjeee?])
3. UrbanOS (its cool, but netbooks arnt exclusively “urban”. its kinda big city egoistic. still like it though)

and for the time being when it supports only eee you could call it (im stealing some here)
1. Meeew (like μ/small)
2. Weee OS (like the word wee for small)
3. Neeet OS (reference to netbooks and neat n’ tidiness)
4. Feeeord (like fjord. heh)

Comment by chubbstar — October 16, 2008 @ 9:01 pm

Ramvi as your name is best because using it you may not get into troubles because of using someone’s trade mark.

Comment by Sami Serola — October 16, 2008 @ 3:13 pm

EeeBuntu is perfect. It short, shows what it is, and it is euphonic (compare to ‘Ebente’, ‘Ubuntu for Eee’ and others. I am admired that the word isn’t already picked up. So long live EeeBuntu ! sorry – was only rehearsing ;-)

Comment by antoni — October 14, 2008 @ 6:12 pm

tu-eee

=> bring it (on)to eee PC
phonetic spelling from to and the last syllable from Ubuntu ;)

tux-eee

your own Name is surely fine like the former proposition

Comment by TilliT — October 14, 2008 @ 12:13 am

RamvintEee

Comment by Rich — October 13, 2008 @ 4:42 am

EnlightEnmEnt? Has 3 E’s and it sounds cool.

Comment by Gilbert Sanchez — October 13, 2008 @ 3:46 am

Really think Ubuntu should feature in the name. It’s functional in that it tells people what they are getting but it also pays some respect to it’s beginnings. Think EeeBuntu is great. Or something in that style, maybe UbuntEee…

Comment by SteveK — October 10, 2008 @ 11:50 pm

Urban! Urban! Urban!

Comment by Andrea — October 7, 2008 @ 2:58 pm

How about ebente – Like ubuntu but with the U’s removced and replaced with three E’s.

Comment by dikkii — October 7, 2008 @ 6:01 am

I agree with epistaxsis below — keeping “Ubuntu” in the name is important, for at least three really good reasons:

1. It is appropriate recognition of the base distro.

2. It gives people looking for a distro some idea of what to expect.

3. If you choose a name blessed by Canonical, you won’t have to change it again when the team of lawyers for whoever owns the trademark “Urban” or “Aurora” or “whatever” (who are surely not going to be so polite) sends you their list of demands. And they will defend the name against misuse by others, because *their* trademark is part of it.

“Ubuntu for Eee” sounds fine to me — why reject it just because it’s descriptive? I found Ubuntu Eee because I googled on “ubuntu eee” without knowing that such a thing existed, just knowing what I wanted (to run Ubuntu on my Eee). Why shouldn’t it be easy to find?

Two reasons you might not want to choose “Ubuntu for Eee” are:

1. If you plan to make it a distro for netbooks in general as opposed to the eee specifically, then “Ubuntu for Netbooks”, if that’s OK with Canonical, might be a
good choice.

2. You can expect Asus to make the same point about trademark infringement for the use of “eee” in the name, unless they are as enlightened as Canonical, and willing to go on record to that effect.

Comment by George — October 6, 2008 @ 1:40 pm

ubuntu eee remix sounds good, may be canonical idea it’s not too bad.

Comment by andrea — October 5, 2008 @ 12:24 am

Go for Urban!

Comment by Andrea — October 2, 2008 @ 4:38 pm

personally, i like the idea of further ubuntu branding should they allow it.. eeeBuntu certainly has a nice ring to it.

otherwise, if the plans are to diverge into a universal netbook OS then UrbanOS sound like a good one. or perhaps eeeNix.

or perhaps or maybe Meeeubuntu (like the letter Mu/μ) or perhaps just plain old Mubuntu/μbuntu.

Munixos sounds cool too.

Comment by brett — October 1, 2008 @ 8:30 am

I like Urban — or the already mentioned Urbanos (UrbanOS?). Netbooks *are* urban; the name sounds good, and preserves that U as a hint to its Ubuntu origins. :)

Seconds away from trying it on my 901 ;D

Comment by JC — September 29, 2008 @ 9:36 am

I pick Urbanos.
Your city, your life, your system

But, beyond nice branding, you need and easy software instalation system.

I know synaptic is powerfull, but it simply hard for people without internet connectivity.

Compatible with Clik and Run services (like asus xandros or Linux mint is great)

Comment by adicahya — September 28, 2008 @ 10:33 pm

I really like Ion. You’ve got all the tinieness of an Ion, with the strength of the Ionic Bond. It sums up the Eee, and the project perfectly! Only thing is Ion is a bit… indescriptive. Maybe Ion Linux, or Ion OS.

Comment by No-one. — September 27, 2008 @ 9:41 pm

I Think the project shouldn’t have Ubuntu in its name. Ion or Aurora sounds nice. Also Urban is cool. Anyway, these choices can bring also good artworks for a logo for the distro ;)

Comment by The.Dark.Side (Italy) — September 26, 2008 @ 11:07 am

meee dont likeee this ;)
The current EEE-Ubuntu is more than just a hack it has some real potential and deserves an cool and independend name, not bound to the eee franchise.

Comment by ticking — September 25, 2008 @ 8:35 am

Just my two eurocents:

- Humaniteee
- Reeemix

Comment by Zappes — September 24, 2008 @ 8:31 pm

like the sound of troll

Comment by dave — September 24, 2008 @ 7:45 pm

“Let the Urban be your office.”
“Ever thought about taking, 1 desk, 2 lamps, your calendar your tv, the videophone you don’t even own, several pens, a bunch of sheets, more sheets, 1,25 tons of sheets, newspapers… from all over the world… ever published, the library of congress and your local library, out to town? Ever tried?
Now you can. Go Urban, and take everything with you.”

Comment by ticking — September 24, 2008 @ 12:30 pm

I think Urban’s the best choice.
Bundled with some cool slogan it’s perfect.
“Urban,
Always with you, always around you, and it never sleeps.”
“Imagine a whole city of thoughts inside your pocket.”
And by the way, were going to use it in a school here in germany on a large scale, and as an admin I want to say something cool everyday^^.

In my opinion names like Frost or Aurora are not very descriptive and not very well to remember, (not brainbranding ^^)

Comment by Anonymous — September 24, 2008 @ 12:11 pm

How about Weeebuntu.
Because it is small as in wee, yet fun as in weee!

Comment by robottuba — September 23, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

[...] Jon is looking for alternative names to re-brand our beloved Ubuntu Eee and keep it apart from its root which is Ubuntu. Based on the issued letter, we cannot use the [...]

Pingback by Asus EEE HowTo | Asus EEE 如何 » Blog Archive » Re-Branding Ubuntu Eee — September 23, 2008 @ 4:03 am

…I’d still stick to URBANOS. ;)

Comment by mikó — September 22, 2008 @ 10:29 am

Zeus – The protector and ruler of Humankind. The god of weather and atmospheric phenomena – implies that ubuntu eee can goes anywhere no matter what weather it is.

LOL…

Comment by siong1987 — September 21, 2008 @ 8:21 pm

How about NetbookOS?

Comment by reset3x — September 21, 2008 @ 5:47 pm

Icon (or Iconic or Iconical)
- the Asus EEE PC and others have quickly become iconic, huge numbers of people really love these netbooks
- an icon represents a set of positive and sort after qualities
- the netbook UI displays application icons all over its interface

Comment by JRocket — September 21, 2008 @ 10:01 am

Installed on eee PC 1000 yesterday, spot on job.

Sorry to be a pain though I do have an alternative….

Uriel… Ubuntu, RamvI, Eee, Linux

Also a lovely angel, what you reckon?

Comment by Arron — September 20, 2008 @ 6:30 pm

Keeping Ubuntu in there is *critical* – after all it is the distro that is making the most headway in attracting new users.

IMHO getting further into bed with Canonical can only be a good thing!

My Eee PC came speaking chinese to me & being able to make up a SD & bung it in and get a working machine was just fanatastic.

Keep up the good work

Comment by epistaxsis — September 20, 2008 @ 4:48 pm

I’m wondering how are we going to decide the name?
There seems to be another issue too… is Ubuntu eee project going to separate from ubuntu even more and becoming distro based on ubuntu or rather going to still be modified ubuntu specially for netbooks. I’m not sure if the ubuntueee community has enough power to turn it into separate distro. To me it seems that canonical pointed out that we either separete more from them or become part of ubuntu like Mythbuntu. from another hand it may be o that i’m not aware what i’m saying

Comment by no one — September 20, 2008 @ 3:15 pm

EeeOS

Sounds good, looks good, and WORK’s

Comment by Vincent — September 19, 2008 @ 10:44 pm

EEEoS — because this is the true EEE OS, better then xandros, safer than windows, and works out of the box like how a plain install of Hardy doesn’t :)

Have plans for a logo too, will be published on request :P

Comment by Zoli — September 19, 2008 @ 10:38 pm

I had conversation with some geeks and they pronounce my suggestion, and here it is:

mobeelin

combination of moby+eee+linux

Comment by g.c. — September 19, 2008 @ 10:26 pm

LinEee

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 19, 2008 @ 5:15 pm

Ion is my fav!

Runners-up:
Frost
Fjord
Swift

Cheers!

Comment by xn5r — September 19, 2008 @ 2:03 pm

Another one:

Ubeee
(obviously short for Ubuntu-eee)

:-)

Comment by buzz — September 19, 2008 @ 1:25 pm

If you still need a name for the time being so that the ubuntu-trademark-gestapo(tm) will get off your back, I second Walkabout.

Comment by Anonymous — September 19, 2008 @ 8:35 am

Asbuntu (Asus Ubuntu)
EUNX (Eee Ubuntu Not Xandros)
EUNNX (ee ubuntu netbook not xandros)

Susa (Asus backwards)

i quit

Comment by Bonster — September 19, 2008 @ 7:53 am

netbook os

Comment by open source lover — September 18, 2008 @ 9:08 pm

If you make the default wi-fi card of MSI Wind work, you can call miracleOS!
Hahaha…
All names are cool, tnks for the great work!

Comment by Anonymous — September 18, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

What about BookBuntu?
The idea is to get it to work on a netbook or ‘Book, isn’t it?

Comment by EM — September 18, 2008 @ 1:26 pm

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Pingback by How to install Ubuntu Eee 8.04.1 on your Eee PC - Simple Help — September 18, 2008 @ 1:00 pm

Fjord is genius! I think of the sketch Dead Parrot from Monty Python. “Pining for the fjords?. That’s genius that is. I’d love that on my Asus Eee (of course with a “Norwegian Blue” theme!)

Comment by Chris — September 18, 2008 @ 12:00 pm

Ueee is the best!

Comment by Radek901 — September 18, 2008 @ 11:22 am

Not to rain on everyone’s parade, but aren’t we hoping that this project won’t be necessary in a few months and all the fixes for these devices will be integrated into the mainstream Ubuntu? And if the benefit of Ubuntu-eee is the Netbook Remix interface, what would be the point of this project? Not to offend anyone, and please tell me if I’m wrong, but I just don’t see the point. I love the current version (8.04.1) and all, but I’m personally hoping that either Intrepid or Jaunty will have all the drivers and such for the Eee and all other netbooks. And for the interface and default software, the Netbook Remix should cover all of that.

Please tell me if I’m wrong, though.

Comment by Brian DeMaio — September 18, 2008 @ 12:57 am

Frost is my favorite by far. Ion is nice as well.

Comment by Laura — September 17, 2008 @ 5:55 pm

I prefer Troll, its a good name for a tiny and good looking Linux distri.

Comment by J3rry — September 17, 2008 @ 3:32 pm

Ion. By far the tøffeste name.

Comment by tone — September 17, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

I think Frost sounds really good!

Comment by Janne — September 17, 2008 @ 2:40 pm

What about mobelin ?
There is moblin site, but similarity group with E in the middle isn’t a problem.

Comment by g.c. — September 17, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

lol Yellowseed , your suggestion reminds me of Wooldoor Sockbat’s (Drawn Together) catchphrase “Wheeeeeeeeeeee!!!” .

Anyway, i prefer IRIS – a nice sounding name – its brief and technical. However the existing IRIX is quite related.
I’d also recommend RAMVI regarding the originator and FLOCK (and the logo could be a sheep).

Maroon is a little too close to moron ;-)

Comment by Micha — September 17, 2008 @ 9:51 am

Flock and Iris are already popular softwares, but I’d go for Ion by Clint. My pick would be Qasar – also appears in a Red Dwarf episode! Have fun.

Comment by Damien — September 17, 2008 @ 9:51 am

why don’t you try
hakme
fringe
netos
innova
lightos
air

Comment by hakme — September 17, 2008 @ 9:07 am

netbookEZ – Netbook + Easy to use

Comment by Frank Weathers — September 17, 2008 @ 7:00 am

I was looking form something meaningful, but not direct – and not yet used.
What do you think about: Mini Modus?

Comment by JBajan — September 17, 2008 @ 5:21 am

What about EolOS? (Eolo, the greek god of wind and OS)

Comment by Griever — September 17, 2008 @ 12:11 am

well atom could be suitable but would perhaps infringe with intels copyright? kvark or ion would be nice aswell

Comment by M — September 17, 2008 @ 12:10 am

Wee, as in the both the Eee branding and We, or us, as in the Linux community.

Comment by Jon — September 16, 2008 @ 10:38 pm

“Ueee” ha, as in “Whee, what fun!”

I like “Iris” most — something pretty, small, and everybody should have one or two :-)

“Fjord” is nice, but I can’t think of a reason.

I think “Ion” (window manager), “Flock” (browser), and “Colibri” (web app framework?) are already taken…

Comment by Yellowseed — September 16, 2008 @ 10:23 pm

I like the name, “Ion” by Clint. It’s simple, based on Greek and therefore somewhat neutral, and it originally meant “to go”.

Comment by Anonymous — September 16, 2008 @ 8:49 pm

Why not Jonnet?
Jon…..is you!
Net for netbook

Comment by Davide — September 16, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

btw i would just like to point out that your website doesnt actuarly display properly on an eeepc with the native resolution in firefox, you cant see half the text.

Comment by Squeeeky — September 16, 2008 @ 12:45 pm

Frost is awsome!

Comment by coys — September 16, 2008 @ 12:39 pm

I agree with some of the later comments – get any changes you make integrate upstream.

As far as a name goes, how about “mobuntu” ?

Comment by Robin Bowes — September 16, 2008 @ 12:26 pm

I like Colibri.

However, I agree with the previous posters who move for sending all fixes you did upstream. Eventually, there will be an official ‘mobile’ ubuntu remix, you might as well make sure you’re credited for it. And I believe the last thing we need is another ubuntu version floating around. Ok, that’s what you are right now, but at this moment you’re at least relevant. (I’m happy to be able to easily install a very nice ubuntu remix on my eee 900, and so are all other users, I imagine)

Comment by Rob — September 16, 2008 @ 9:03 am

oh and here is an explanation for Valkyrie or rather why I like the name;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valkyrie

Comment by EvilRobot — September 16, 2008 @ 7:33 am

I’m currently using Ubuntu eee on my Eee pc 900 and I have to say I love it so far, everything seems to work really well. Great job with this distro, it rocks hard! :)
As far as names go how about Valkyrie?

Comment by EvilRobot — September 16, 2008 @ 7:21 am

How about “Jay“? Or “Blue Jay“?

Just a nice word. Easy to remember, no association with other projects like Owl or Ion.

P.S. I can help with logo design.

Comment by StraNNicK — September 16, 2008 @ 5:18 am

Ueee

Comment by ecadmin — September 16, 2008 @ 4:03 am

Although I believe you have done a fantastic job, I would like to support the comments of mzander, hanzz and Jevin.
Ubuntu eee uses Ubuntu’s repositories, Adam’s unofficial v8.04 kernel and Netbook Remix, plus the associated hacks.
All (or most) of these should be included in Ubuntu v8.10.
Your support added to this version would, I believe, be most appreciated.

Comment by TonyF — September 16, 2008 @ 2:28 am

Why aren’t you putting your effort into the upstream Ubuntu? I see very little difference between yours and theirs!

Comment by Jevin — September 16, 2008 @ 1:20 am

Lee-pis ?

Rrrright. And what about the Anglo-Saxon expression “I zeenk you arr taking ze pis”?

Does it make sense to invoke the EEE when the distro is going beyond it? No.

What’s not to like about walkbout (apart from eating witchity grubs)?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bE76aQ0N45k

Comment by Eats Wombats — September 15, 2008 @ 11:55 pm

Minos.

One one level it just implies “small OS”. Cute.

Then check the Wikipedia entry to understand the legacy of Minoan civilisation.

Comment by Grant David — September 15, 2008 @ 11:49 pm

how about

lee-pis (you are missed from greek)

linux

ee from eepc

pis to paraphraze pc

something missing from netbook genre

Comment by Yiannis — September 15, 2008 @ 10:23 pm

I just think the same as “mzandrew”:

Instead of making a multi-netbook-friendly distro based on ubuntu with the netbook remix stuff enabled, wouldn’t it be better to push the changes that make ubuntu work on all the eeePCs (and other netbooks) upsteam so that we could just download the latest ubuntu and use it?

Comment by hanzz — September 15, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

Hi there,
great job. I just love my eeepc 701 with ubuntueee. I like maroon very much. Sounds good.
Greets from germany.

Comment by Tobias Michel — September 15, 2008 @ 8:51 pm

I’m not trolling or trying to start a flamewar – I’m typing this from an eeePC 901 running ubuntu-eee 8,04,1 (great job, btw) and I think it’s the bees knees.

Comment by mzandrew — September 15, 2008 @ 8:34 pm

Why not “Little Blue Linux” or “Blue linux” after the smalest pingvin “Eudyptula minor” the Little Blue Penguin.

Lennart

Comment by Lennart Hedlund — September 15, 2008 @ 7:17 pm

Frost Linux sounds good

Comment by Anonymous — September 15, 2008 @ 6:17 pm

Sorry, there’s already a distro called Kiwi based on Ubuntu.

http://kiwilinux.org/

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=kiwi

Comment by Walt — September 15, 2008 @ 5:44 pm

I like “Swift” and “Ion”. Maybe these could even go together:

“Swift Ion OS”.

Keep up the good work.

Comment by Matthew — September 15, 2008 @ 5:03 pm

I would prefer Fjord or Frost. The name Rune could make some problems because of the same called video game.

Comment by Yantit — September 15, 2008 @ 4:13 pm

None of the names stand out as being very appropriate for a portable umpc OS, my favorite name would be “Walkabout” Linux, more Australian than Scandinavian, but it fits perfectly. anyway, good luck with the “OS” whatever you decide to call it ;)

Comment by Tony — September 15, 2008 @ 3:20 pm

Somehow, my comments keep being eaten…

Okay, some new suggestions:

Linux Ram, or
Rambutan

Explanation:
The Ram is an animal whose appearance somewhat resembles the GNU. (Very much linux…)
Ram = Ramvi
and to honor the descendance from Ubuntu, the word Rambutan is a similar-sounding word connecting all of the above.
And the Rambutan is a sturdier and better fruit than the Apple :p

Comment by Christopher — September 15, 2008 @ 2:48 pm

Ok, if you dislike Bianca…

I like Troll written in Elder Futhark.

good luck.

Comment by elcamilo — September 15, 2008 @ 1:52 pm

Here’s my humble vote: Colibrix and Rune =)

Comment by dtabone — September 15, 2008 @ 1:50 pm

A couple of unrelated suggestions

Kabanos – meaty and full of flavour

Porthos – Hints at portability and those musketeers were heroically adaptable and versatile

Comment by Nom — September 15, 2008 @ 12:50 pm

Flock – It is already a browser(http://www.flock.com).
Aurora – Next Mozilla’s project? (http://adaptivepath.com/aurora/)
Ion – A window manager. (http://www.modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/)

I like the “LeeNUX”, by Harald.

Comment by Jerônimo Fagundes da Silva — September 15, 2008 @ 12:11 pm

From the list… I like Aurora or Swift :D

Comment by Xenon — September 15, 2008 @ 11:55 am

I don’t like that — except for Ramvi OS — none of these names has anything to do with the eee or Jon or anything.

Ramvi OS sounds a bit cumbersome to me, so what about ROS? That would be short for Ramvi-OS and it means rose in icelandic. (Okay, it’s rós in icelandic, but anyway…)

Maybe someone has some norwegian ideas? That would be really nice.

Cheers,
buzz.

Comment by buzz — September 15, 2008 @ 8:55 am

why not make a voting at http://www.doodle.ch?

Comment by mikó — September 15, 2008 @ 8:51 am

I have a few ”with meaning” just in case: Linbuntux? Ramvix? Speedix? Mynix?(The canadian PC manufacturer is closed).

As of just for nice name:
Score, Jet, Gazon, Blitz, Fern, Claris

PLEASE: not FROST! too reminescent of frozen screen under other OS I wont’t name… In manu lamguage (for me in french) it means it stops working.

Comment by GuyMo — September 15, 2008 @ 1:52 am

I think there is no need to change the name. – is there?
If it is, my suggestion is:

LeeeNUX

Well, its a discribing name too,
but its more neat.

Comment by Harald — September 15, 2008 @ 12:08 am

I guess Colibri is the best. For two reasons:
1. Bird as small as laptops our OS is designed for.
2. Nice word, easy to pronounce, so it can be a good brandname.

Comment by Kether2 — September 14, 2008 @ 11:23 pm

ion (u-ion) is the one i prefer.

Comment by bullx — September 14, 2008 @ 10:38 pm

hey guys, i’m really glad, the name URBANOS got into this list! i still like it ;)
but besides my own recommendation, i like RAMVIOS. it sounds nice.

Comment by mikó — September 14, 2008 @ 10:28 pm

Out of the list I like “Urban”, mostly yes because net books fit well into a urban lifestyle.

I think it could also be a part of the new style of work and life that Dell has been promoting with their “Digital Nomad” campaign.

Comment by Malcolm Bastien — September 14, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

call it:
1) NetOS – Netbook OS
2) TuxBook – Tux’s book

Comment by June — September 14, 2008 @ 4:56 pm

Call it RamvEEE

Comment by philipp — September 14, 2008 @ 3:16 pm

So, Quax didn’t make it eh?

Colibri is an existing brand of cigarette lighter. Colibrix ok probably

Iolair (Gaelic for eagle) is a word I’ve come across as a server name a couple of times (the Norwegian Sea Eagle is Europe’s largest predatory bird)

Crex: In the bird dept the Corncrake (Crex crex) has the ending in x credential and he’s small and runs fast. Found in Norway too.

Corax (Corvus corax): the raven. Flies. Intelligent. Widespread. Majestic. No major brand associated even though it fits the three consonants two vowel pattern desired by Kodak, Xerox and others (works in all languages)

Any Norwegian islands with good names? Utsira?

Mercury or Hermes? — gods with winged feet (& not a lot of baggage)

Flock taken, Iris used left and right by opticians, SGI and others

Arctix: Northern connotation, cool, x ending, magical ring; but.. snow pants brand?! So.. arktix?

Troll and urban are a little pedestrian; kiwi — cute bird but .. bootpolish brand, southern hemisphere

vademecum (vade mecum = latin “go with me” – something regularly carried about by a person); nice alternating consonant and vowels; classical

Defenestrix: having no “Windows” (just for grins)

Ion: ionix is cuter, probably taken. (What’s the take vis a viz a domain name?)

Any famous cold winds? zephyrx?

Comment by Eats Wombats — September 14, 2008 @ 3:14 pm

Out of the names listed I like ‘Fost’. I think ‘Move’ sounds better but I’m sure it’s already used/owned by Microsoft!

Comment by Paul — September 14, 2008 @ 3:04 pm

3u – (read ThreeU or Triu)

Comment by Pedro — September 14, 2008 @ 2:33 pm

I really liked Mimir’s suggestion for the new OS name; Rune.

It seems like such a light name, at the same time it means a lot more.

Beside, i can imagine so many cool logo concepts based on “Rune”

Comment by Finn-Henning — September 14, 2008 @ 1:38 pm

Indigo, Lemon, Lime, Maya blue, Orange, Razzmatazz, just few colors to mention… and my vote goesto ion or linair…

Comment by Anonymous — September 14, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

And what about forums to talk about that ? Cause blog comments are quite unpleasant.

Comment by TMS — September 14, 2008 @ 11:08 am

+1 linair
because air is a romance word and that’s why it’s almost international.

Comment by nicola — September 14, 2008 @ 10:31 am

I like Swift,Because netbooks are Swiftly) and Frost (it sticks to you like a Frostbite) the best.
Both names just really sounds good.
Q what kind of OS are your running on your netbook?
A Iam running Swift because it makes my netbook runs swiftly
or
A Iam running Frost it just give my netrbook that extra Frostbite.

Gerard

Comment by DeGrijze — September 14, 2008 @ 10:05 am

But alas: it seems like ION is already taken as far as linux-distros go, it is a window-manager, and a “bundled-with-hardware”- distro based on the same WM and also targetet for early netbooks a few years ago. I predict problems with licensees…

Comment by Christopher — September 14, 2008 @ 10:01 am

+1 for Ion, but it will be somewhat hard to match with “release codenames”, aka Ubuntu, unless it’s pretty cheesy names like “Ion Storm, Ion Particle, Ion Cascade, Ion Flux, LHC” etc…

and colors for codenames? Makes me think of Pokémon :p

Suggestion: We should have a “community forum” so that we don’t communicate with blog comments though…

Comment by Christopher — September 14, 2008 @ 9:54 am

I like “air” but drop the Lin in front. Ion isn’t bad.

Comment by Nate — September 14, 2008 @ 7:57 am

Hi.

Aurora is taken by some gtk engine + vista’s wallpaper’s name, it would be confusing.

Flock is another one that’s confusing.

—
In my opinion, consider bird names for the versioning (noticed most of the names you liked are birds’) It would be analogue to ubuntu’s and mint’s. As for the real name, well, none of the names really calls my attention that much. I like Air since the best part of a netbook is the light weight, (no lin prefix though), Air, wind, storm, stuff like that, Ion? maybe.

Comment by Vexorian — September 14, 2008 @ 5:33 am

Ion is probably the best, or maybe U-ion (can be pronounced as union) because I think Ubuntu is still the core.

Also, it would be nice to have few more color scheme for the desktop once this re-branding is decided :)

Comment by Seraph — September 14, 2008 @ 3:21 am

LinAir
Sounds light, like what subnotebooks are supossed to be.

Comment by Toaster — September 14, 2008 @ 3:13 am

I like colibri. Has meaning and sound fine
I really hate names composed by parts of other words, like linair. It sounds like a small grocery store called after the names of the owner’s children, all composed together :-p
Fjord is quite hard to pronounce in my language. For most of the languages this kind of consonants combinations that are really hard to pronounce.
Flock is already the name of a quite popular 2.0 web browser, Aurora and Kiwi are taken…
I agree with most of Max Barry’s points about the rest. But I like Colibri.

Comment by Gez — September 14, 2008 @ 3:00 am

My favorite by far is “Ion.” That makes me think “small and powerful.” Also being a homonym for “iron,” it invokes feelings of strength and stability.

Second choice: “Urban.” The initial “U” is a nice link to Ubuntu. Also urban sounds modern and fast-moving, just like netbook owners. :)

I don’t like:

* Troll: bad connotations with internet trolls

* Iris: sounds like an old woman

* Rune: overused in games & fiction (e.g. Runescape)

* Colibri: a little hard to remember and easy to mistype.

* Flock: sounds like file locking

* Swift: too generic; sounds like a distro made purely for speed with no other considerations (like Swiftfox).

* Frost: leaves you open to “Frost has frozen!” jokes. :)

Also Jon, thanks so much for the distro! It’s brilliant.

Comment by Max Barry — September 14, 2008 @ 2:05 am

Ion, ion sounds the best

Comment by lyb — September 13, 2008 @ 11:21 pm

I like Colibri, maybe something like “Cool Colibri”, tying into the whole Ubuntu Adjective + Animal thing. (But with tiny animals, to reflect the tininess of netbooks)

Comment by C — September 13, 2008 @ 11:10 pm

I like Ion: it’s small, powerful, sounding…

Comment by Mosfet — September 13, 2008 @ 10:34 pm

How about Loki?

Comment by Grayson — September 13, 2008 @ 10:16 pm

I think fjord would be a good choose. Fjord means to me: freedom, nature, elementariness, simplicity. And ist a little bit Swedish, a bit personally of you Jon ;).

Comment by Katzenstreu — September 13, 2008 @ 9:54 pm

Hi!!!

I think Ion and Iris are real cool and perfect name, and, ubuntu ee is perfect for my asus eee :D

Comment by Johan — September 13, 2008 @ 9:53 pm

To Greg:

I thought the whole thing was that we couldn’t use ‘ubuntu’ in the name….?

Comment by stef.s — September 13, 2008 @ 8:32 pm

Hey Jon, out of scope but … got a good one:

penix

reminiscences from unix, everybody will remember and … well , these notebooks will become a sort of appendix for everyone :)

a bit politically incorrect ?

Comment by Javier — September 13, 2008 @ 8:21 pm

I think Ion is the best candidate. It’s short and elegant.

I think Swift sounds ugly. While Ion is mostly vowels, Swift is a sharp and cold sound.

Comment by Oddmund — September 13, 2008 @ 8:12 pm

Ion sounds cool and holds meaning. Swift comes a close second … Ubuntu Ion … Ubuntu Swift … Hmmm … Ubuntu Eon? That means a million years. It also holds an E from EEE, and says ON, as in online.

:-)
Greg

Comment by Greg McQueen — September 13, 2008 @ 7:42 pm

Name is not the only thing we should think about. We should think how are we going to name different builds(for exaple Ubuntu Hardy Heron). I would suggest using names wich mean colors such as Maroon, the reason is that you won’t run out of them quikcly…Look:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors

Whhat comes to the name it should be something wich describes the OS such as Ion (Small),Linair (it’s supposed to look like one word but…) and Swift. I like name Swift but I just feel that that name is too commonly used (Suzuki Swift,some programs such as Swift Publisher and some companies).

Comment by Kaien — September 13, 2008 @ 7:00 pm

My vote goes to ‘Maroon’ …Why? Well, simple really?

You never piss off the lady who deligates her time to bring you your coffee when you’re in need ;)

Comment by Midnite Mac — September 13, 2008 @ 6:52 pm

I like Swift, as that’s what the OS is, (fast, and clean)…

Flock, aurora, troll all have other meanings in computer/internet speak, and would confuse things.

Plus troll makes it seem unwieldy and ugly.

Go swift!

Comment by stef.s — September 13, 2008 @ 6:39 pm

I don’t think Flock would do it, because it also is the name of a browser.

I like Swift, but don’t know why, and i like Troll, because i am a Norwegian. :-)

Comment by Asle Ommundsen — September 13, 2008 @ 5:02 pm

Update: Re-branding Ubuntu Eee

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