What are some good name suggestions for the rebranding of OpenSuse?

Green Hat

[Sorry for the double reply]

Here's a silly idea: what about ZagrOS? "Zagros" is the name of the mountain range where the ancient city of Susa used to be. It's like the city was too small for the project, so they took over the whole mountain range, so they went from [open]SUSE to ZagrOS.

If you shorten OpenSUSE to OS, then add OS to the end (shorthand for operating system), you get OSOS.

Job done.

GeckoOS

or my personal favourite, OpenSUS

OpenSueMe

OpenSauce

• ChameLinux
• ChameleOS
• OpenCamo
• OpenChamo

Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce

• SauceOS
• OpenSauce
• SaucyOS

Debiain't

OpenSüß

Don't they already have the names Leap and Tumbleweed? Changing the name to Leap would make sense since it's the name of the "official LTS" version. At this point it sounds like "openSUSE" is the name of the project and not the distro. But I haven't been following them closely, so perhaps I'm wrong.

Any name that does not contain an animal.

anything with an obvious pronunciation

I'd suggest "Spicious Linux", but it's a 5/10 pun at best, and too similar to "specious" which means "sounds legit but isn't"; not necessarily a good look.

"Opus" borrows letters and sounds good, but speaking of sounds, it's the name of a sound codec, so maybe not a good choice.

"Abstruse" has similar problems to "specious"...

"ChameleOS" is the name of a dragon in a game.

I figure if I run through all the bad ideas here, only good ones will be left... but that might well be specious.

IDC what it is but they can pry that chameleon from my cold dead hands

Sussy

I started trying to read through the thread, but there's clearly a lot of context that I don't have. Is anyone able to give a brief summary that would explain what this is all about?

OpenSusan

OpenAnuse

Maybe MelanoOS (named after melanophore cells that allow chameleons to change color)

OS² (Open SUSE OS).

Might have some copyright issues with OS/2 though.

Whatever you do, keep the logo. It is good.

Edit : Another suggestion: YALOS (Yet Another Linux OS)

Chameleon linux

OpenSesame

I don't use openSUSE. What are its strong points? As in, why would someone use openSUSE instead of another distro?

From the openSUSE wiki and DistroWatch, it seems to me that the distro's goals are the following:

• easy to use
• easy to contribute with
• good balance between stability and new features
• flexibility (see YaST)

Name the distro after those points. Or concepts playing with those points. "Chameleon" (as suggested by others here) seems to be a fun start.

Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy Chamel

Corporate Friendly Non-Branded Linux. CFNB Linux for short

Gecko Linux

Chama Linux is the obvious answer

OpenSus

The suggestions I liked here were ChameleOS, ZagrOS, and Opus

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This is my analysis of the situation: The name OpenSUSE is bad marketing and does need to change. I remember when I was choosing my distro the name was downright off-putting and made me initially overlook it as an option. It does not do OpenSUSE any favors.

The mascot and logo are very good, however. It is a solid design. Easily recognizable, somewhat cute and friendly looking. I even made it my app launcher menu button because I liked it so much.

The problem is that it is very difficult to base marketable name based on a chameleon. "ChamOS" or "Linux Cham" (pronounced "Kam" ), seems like a logical choice. However, people would just pronounce it "sham", which isn't making it any favors. You would have to drop the "H".

Ultimately, the name has to follow the conventions of other distros. Such as "linux X" or "X OS", where X is an easily pronounceable name with preferably fewer syllables.

My suggestion for names that would relate to the logo :

• CamOS (already suggested by someone else)
• Linux Green

Lizix

Lizard Linux

Larry

OpenZuse

Green fedora

It's trendy to rebrand things with an X.

Let's call it X.

Zeus

Mark

Enterprise Linux

OpenSesame

Or just Sesame.

OpenSUSAME

OpenZusee

I think they should allow themselves to give a whole new name, as if you were starting your own distro. How would you like to name it? Go for it.

The proposed "GeekOS" is a horrid name but Geeko Linux could work. But would be confusing with the existing GeckoLinux

GreenPenisOS

Kamux ir Khamux, to pair the chameleon mascot with that typical KDE K on everything

Name it Soos and be done with it.

VertOS or GrunOS

OpenDistro Leap/Tumbleweed/Aeon/...

OpenDistro should identify the community tools used for building the various distro. One distinctive aspect of OpenSUSE is how it is easy to create new distro, or custom repositories. So it should be the focus of the new naming scheme.

OpenBoozy/OpenBooza
BundleGreen

OpenS-USE (Abbreviation from Open Source - Use)

TumbleOS

CrowdSuse

SuSL1

Chameleons are masters of camouflage, Camo Linux?

They hiss when they’re pissed. Hiss Linux? SSSSSlinux? What about Prehensiletongix?

OpenLeon

Zyppos

Just leave it at OpenSUSE and fight for the name. We should not truckle to such a company.

chameleon?

How about something without a pun or clever hidden meaning for a change?
Also no cute animal mascots, get a proper abstract logo.

Irrelevant and unused

I don't understand why they are shooting themselves in the foot