[OpenIndiana-discuss] [illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

[P Kaskela]

> What about Solis ? Short, would seem brandable. Quick google didn't return
> any hits for another OS or distro, but I didn't do an exhaustive search.
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> Playing with some words and google translate:
> phoenix:
> fenice	: Italian
> fénix 	: Spanish
> feeniks	: Finnish
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> Another idea:
> Zonos (play on words from one feature, zones; zone os shrunk to zonos)
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> On Jun 21, 2011, at 12:10 PM, Andrey N. Oktyabrski wrote:
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>> On 21.06.11 19:29, oi-discuss at mho.nu wrote:
>>> IcarOS?
>> http://www.icarosdesktop.org/
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>> On 21.06.11 20:15, Ken Gunderson wrote:
>> > I like Phoenix - reborn and rising from the ashes of Sun.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doscore
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I am a recent lurker who relatively recently started using Solaris (2004
with Solaris 9 on used Ultra 2 and 5 + Solaris 10 on ultra 20).  I don't
know how valid my input is - I certainly haven't done any programming work
on any of the components.

Keeping that in mind: I really like the 'zonos' name.  It reflects the
most famous recent 'killer feature' of Solaris besides zfs and it rolls
off the tongue easily.
zonos/ZONOS is also visually symmetrical which lends itself well to logos
and the like.

The name is also simple and sounds 'professional' for lack of a better
word.  It also doesn't directly bring up associations to things like linux
does to linus or refer to silly animal mascots.

Just a thought.
-Phil Kaskela