[OpenIndiana-discuss] The name: "OpenIndiana" (part II)

Daniel Kjar dkjar at elmira.edu
Fri Oct 8 23:40:51 UTC 2010


I like Polaris, "our star"... not so  much.


Very useful for celestial navigation so there is some 'meaning'.  Polaris
really does sound great as a name for the OS.



On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Initially it was said that "the community" didn't get a chance to
> provide input, which turned out not to be true.  Several of us pointed
> out reasons why a name change right now would be a bad idea.  Nobody
> for the name change rebutted those reasons.
>
> Can we move on from style for now and work on substance, like a
> skinnable mp3 player written in Scheme with a Fortran decoder? :)
>
> -B
>
> On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Søren Krarup Olesen <sko at es.aau.dk> wrote:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > Okay, I gave the name a little thought and came up with
> >
> > http://raptus.dk/tmp/logo.svg
> >
> > Please ignore the "logo". I was just fooling around with SVG and
> > playing with colours...orange and blue. The name however is nice, me
> > thinks.
> >
> > Søren
> >
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