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....speaking of distribution names.......speaking of distribution names...Posted Nov 16, 2003 10:20 UTC (Sun) by coriordan (guest, #7544)In reply to: ....speaking of distribution names... by frazier Parent article: Sun's Linux desktop off to flying start (Register) How about: GoLinux! (gnu on linux) "User GNU/Linux" might be untrademarkable, since all three words are either in common use or already trademarked. I don't know. I think g-n-user-linux is good though. The capital U should stop people calling it guh-nooser-linux. It's certainly not easy to find a catchy name with gnu and linux in it. Debians approach is very good indeed.
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GoLinux! Posted Nov 16, 2003 14:53 UTC (Sun) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link] Nice! And it's even a recursive acronym (Gnu's not Unix on Linux! ???)
....speaking of distribution names... Posted Nov 16, 2003 16:21 UTC (Sun) by vblum (guest, #1151) [Link] oh well .... no. 82 on the distributions page ...
....speaking of distribution names... Posted Nov 16, 2003 22:41 UTC (Sun) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link] I like GoLinux... ...easy to pronounce, easy to remember. An excellent idea. As was mentioned, there's a Go!Linux at #82 on the LWN distributions list, but it looks dead. Here's what http://www.golinux.de says translated to English via Babelfish: Welcomely on the Website by Helmut FranzIn a nutshell, there's no active Go!Linux there. The LWN description for Go!Linux says: Comes with PC!Linux magazine. German.GoLinux is being used as a migration-related resource from tux.org. http://www.golinux.ch/ is a small resource looking independent of tux.org and Go!Linux. The worst thing I've run across so far about GoLinux is GoLinux.com which is a souless links page but does have links to Linux stuff which may or may not make it fair game under the guidelines of Linux International. I like the GoLinux name. If GoLinux.com could be secured and whatever naming conflicts could be resolved (not sure about the domain but given the nature of the active GoLinux sites I can see that being a doable task) that would be a nice, marketable, pronounable, usable, GNUable name. I've obtained blessing for a now long defunct Linux name from LI in the past... ...Jon "Maddog" Hall was great to work with. Don't know exactly what their policy is on situations like GoLinux.com above, though. If anything else, there's gotta be another name out there (rememberable, readily pronouncable, internally marketable to non-technical people without them thinking "how good can something be with a name like that?"). GoLinux is short, memorable, positive, and easily said. These are good things.
....speaking of distribution names... Posted Nov 16, 2003 23:37 UTC (Sun) by frazier (guest, #3060) [Link] Along the lines of GoLinux would be GoldLinux (GNU On Linux Distribution).The .com, .net, .org domains are there, too. A quick Google shows a lack of conflicts, there's Accelerated-X Summit Line DX - Gold Edition Linux Demos and there appears to be a discontinued or renamed web hosting product from Intuity Networks called GoldLinux. Not as catchy as GoLinux in my book, but certainly usable, pronouncable, and might be a reasonable candidate for a sanctioned trademark from Linux International (of course, that's up to them as the agent of the Linux Trademark). On the surface there appears to be few if any current uses of the name.
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