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? ;)
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And what about forums to talk about that ? Cause blog comments are quite unpleasant.
+1 linair
because air is a romance word and that’s why it’s almost international.
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
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…
+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…
I like “air” but drop the Lin in front. Ion isn’t bad.
Hi.
Aurora is taken by some gtk engine + vista’s wallpaper’s name, it would be confusing.
Flock is another one that’s confusing.
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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.
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 :)
LinAir
Sounds light, like what subnotebooks are supossed to be.
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.
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.
Ion, ion sounds the best
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)
I like Ion: it’s small, powerful, sounding…
How about Loki?
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 ;).
Hi!!!
I think Ion and Iris are real cool and perfect name, and, ubuntu ee is perfect for my asus eee :D
To Greg:
I thought the whole thing was that we couldn’t use ‘ubuntu’ in the name….?
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 ?
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.
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
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).
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 ;)
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!
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. :-)