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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/37281970
Believe it or not, an unexpected conflict has arisen in the openSUSE community with its long-time supporter and namesake, the SUSE company.
At the heart of this tension lies a quiet request that has stirred not-so-quiet ripples across the open source landscape: SUSE has formally asked openSUSE to discontinue using its brand name.
Richard Brown, a key figure within the openSUSE project, shared insights into the discussions that have unfolded behind closed doors.
Despite SUSE’s request’s calm and respectful tone, the implications of not meeting it could be far-reaching, threatening the symbiotic relationship that has benefited both entities over the years.
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Off the top of my head…
- Gecko or GeckOS
- LizOS
- ReptilOS
- ChamelOS
- KomodOS
Rename it to openSUS
ChameleonOS seems to be already taken… Maybe ReptileOS?
David Icke will disagree!
Name it UnownOS. The other variants like MicroOS and Leap all have logos that look like Unowns.
I’m sure Nintendo wouldn’t mind. Their lawyers are known to be pretty chill…
If the just called it other.
It would gain a huge boost in desktop usage figures.
OpenSusame
open sesame
OpenSUE
A Distribution Named SUE
I vote for the new name to be Margot Linux.
Why?
Why not?
OpenSUSEd.
Honestly, for a good distro, the brand is not great. Perhaps this can be viewed good opportunity to go with something more unique!
Just change the name. It’s not a big deal. SUSE is a stupid name anyway.
I think it’s one of those things that will become a bigger deal indirectly because of all the knock-on effects. Like the branding, they’ll have to have the logos all redesigned, the domain name will have to change, it’ll mess up a lot of troubleshooting when people google the old name etc.
I agree but it could be worse (Pop!_OS)
All people named Susanne: 😐
Finally
ClosedSUSE
OpenSawWWWwwce
SUSiE
Zuse Linux
This is a massive miss-play on Suse’s part. Essentially all the good will, and recognition I have for Suse is based on OpenSuse. It’s the reason many of the places I’ve worked at now run a Suse product instead of redhat. Seriously, when I think of OpenSuse and Suse as a whole I barely differentiate the toonunlike redhat and fedora. That’s likely the reason for the switch but I cannot see how-this does anything but benefit them.
From the article too there are some concerns. Suse is, admittedly, trying to cause opensuse to change direction ans managment to further suit it’s buisness at threat of removing support. This is sad to see.
to further suit its* business.
To fursuit it is business
