[illumos-Discuss] branding for illumos/openindiana

Garrett D'Amore garrett at damore.org
Mon Jun 20 17:07:13 PDT 2011


You're not alone.

	- Garrett

On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 16:53 -0700, Blake wrote:
> Does anyone besides me feel that we need a more unified
> naming/branding approach for the community-driven descendants of
> OpenSolaris? I feel that the there is no obvious connection (for those
> new to the platform) between Illumos/OpenIndiana, which I think is
> counterproductive given that OpenIndiana is sort of the 'Fedora Core'
> of Illumos.
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> Some possible names:
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> Illumos Live
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> Illumos Core
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> Illumos [version_number] - [adjective] [animal]
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> (kidding about the last one)
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> I think OpenIndiana is great, I just don't think that the name
> 'Indiana' means anything to anyone and isn't very memorable.
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> Blake
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