Does FreeBSD need a cool alias or another name?

Savagedlight said:
I much prefer this variant.
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Devil Kitty said:
Oh, puh-LEEZ
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Apathy Cat said:
Sure
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giahung said:
Oh no. Are you joking?
BSoD: whenever I heard that name, I always though about Windows BSOD: Blue Screen Of Death!
DDOS: Do you think FreeBSD the best server OS for DDOS?
WORM: Something like Win32 virus?
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I also thought of the blue screen of death when I read that. :)
He was joking as noted in his edited remarks. I think that FreeBSD is a good name, I like it.
 
markbsd said:
BOSS: (B)SD (O)perating (S)ystem(S)

alternatively: (B)SD (O)perating (S)ystem (S)oftware

I refer to FreeBSD as BOSS.
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If you drop the plural and make it BSD Operating System System, you could challenge people to say "BOSS operating system, you know?"
 
Not an alias but the 9.2-RELEASE was called "Nakatomi Sokrates" in the loader screen for a while. I think 11.0 should be called "Tufnel St.Hubbins".
 
Let's see what we are talking about:

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Modcult

I have a copy of the RELELASE-9.2 install media with the reference in it, I even installed it in a virtual machine for my viewing pleasure :e
 
Martillo1 said:
Let's see what we are talking about:

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Modcult

I have a copy of the RELELASE-9.2 install media with the reference in it, I even installed it in a virtual machine for my viewing pleasure :e
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Your logo is disturbingly closer to this:

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A good name is important for success. eBay expanded their business to China. But they failed for they took a bad name for their website to compete with a native company Taobao. The Chinese name of eBay joint venture is 易趣 which means pleasure of deals. But the pronunciation is same with 易去 which means easy to lose. WTF happened. Their competitor 淘宝, whose name means looking for treasures.

So, FreeBSD is good in written English. It's not good for speaking it. Example, BTW is an abbreviation of by the way. It's right for email. We don't speak B T W, it sounds weird.
Google, Unix and Yahoo are good names, because these like words. I got some names: fobix fobux obuix bodix budix. Why is it with a X at the end? Look at Unix, AIX and OS X.
 
Hands off "FreeBSD"!

FreeBSD is one of the last bastions of high quality stuff in this world. Likewise the way this system is designed and laid out, her name and style, IMHO, should not be subject to following the latest fashion trends. Fashion is always liquid. Today it's Sans Serif, tomorrow it's back to Serif. (Yes, I wish we could get Serif back in the FreeBSD Handbook!) Remember how startups were named in 90's and how they're named today. The Web 2.0 obsession is over. There are other operating systems and derivatives that may be willing to focus on the last minute fashions instead. To me, FreeBSD is akin to astrophysics of the telescopes, Najad of yachts or Lehmann of amplifiers. It is like that high quality item you get that floats through and above this chaos of temporary things that expire and fall apart the next day and disappear into eternity. Popularity is never a goal of those items. One of FreeBSD's key strengths, at least to me, lies in offering its users a consistent computing experience. Its strength is its tradition. I would sincerely appreciate if we'd keep it this way. And catchy names are just names. They will come and they will go. But FreeBSD will always be class.
 
blackhaz said:
Hands off "FreeBSD"!

FreeBSD is one of the last bastions of high quality stuff in this world. Likewise the way this system is designed and laid out, her name and style, IMHO, should not be subject to following the latest fashion trends. Fashion is always liquid. Today it's Sans Serif, tomorrow it's back to Serif. (Yes, I wish we could get Serif back in the FreeBSD Handbook!) Remember how startups were named in 90's and how they're named today. The Web 2.0 obsession is over. There are other operating systems and derivatives that may be willing to focus on the last minute fashions instead. To me, FreeBSD is akin to Astro-Physics of the telescopes, Najad of yachts or Lehmann of amplifiers. It is like that high quality item you get that floats through and above this chaos of temporary things that expire and fall apart the next day and disappear in eternity. Popularity is never a goal of those items. One of the key FreeBSD's strengths, at least to me, lies in offering its users a consistent computing experience. Its strength is its tradition. I would sincerely appreciate if we'd keep it this way. And catchy names are just names... They will come and they will go. But FreeBSD will always be class.
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Agreed, it's beautiful the way it is now. It will stay class as long as nobody manages to upheave the project with foolishness. Let's keep it beautiful please. :beer
 
I really hope FreeBSD continues as it always has been. I like the name "FreeBSD" and I also like the fact that things change slowly in FreeBSD (for the better).

What I honestly hope does NOT happen, is that FreeBSD makes changes for the sake of it. If something ain't broke then leave it alone! In this day and age we seem obsessed with change just for the sake of it. Please don't let this happen with FreeBSD!
 
I don't think that FreeBSD needs another name. The OS which really needs a new name (in my opinion) is Windows. (Windows 8/8.1 doesn't even focus on the windowing desktop any more. Instead, they focus on so-called "Mod" apps.) Minix could also use another name because it's supposed to be small but its ISO image is 600 MB uncompressed, and this is when OpenBSD and some "lightweight" Linux distributions have 200 MB ISO images with X11 and hardware support light years farther.
 
As mentioned before, the only acceptable alternative to "FreeBSD", in my opinion, would be "FreeBSD Unix" - if the rights could be obtained. Not going to happen, though.
 
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