Don't have the time to comment on this whole thread (seriously? yet another long post...dude! ;)) but I do have two points I want to make very quickly 1. I think talking about naming anything is premature until we know what the landscape is going to be. Right now, we have Tumbleweed and the beginnings of a new Regular Release which is currently codenamed openSUSE:42. While there is obviously some people who would prefer to keep with the old way of distribution releases, we haven't seen anyone step up to actually do the work to continue that approach. I think the suggestion to maintain the openSUSE name only for the current-style of Regular release is foolish if there is no sign of that way of doing things continuing. So I think any decision about naming (and also versioning) is pointless until things are a little further down the road. This might be a good opportunity to kick around some names, but I certainly would strongly advocate no final decisions until we're much closer to releasing stuff. And for point #2, I have to point out something about one of the suggestions so far On 16 June 2015 at 23:47, Robert Schweikert <rjschwei@suse.com> wrote:
"openSLES" has also been suggested a few times but lets just say that we will probably run afoul with a number of legal restrictions. Plus it is not really SLES, it is based on SLES sources and not a verbatim build of the SLES sources.
openSUSE is a Registered Trademark which is jointly administered by SUSE & openSUSE through the Board. SLES is a Registered Trademark belonging to SUSE, and unlike the openSUSE mark, we (the openSUSE Project) have no established agreement to use the SLES Trademark. Discussions I've already had on this topic suggest to me that SUSE would be reluctant to give permission to the Project for the use of the SLES Mark, as it would be confusing both from a market standpoint, and a practical one (as Robert points out, it's based on SLES sources, not a verbatim build of SLES) So, please, consider any and all alternatives before this one -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org