On Mi, Sep 20 2023 at 14:35:48 -04:00:00, Eric Schwarzenbach <subscriber@blackbrook.org> wrote:
I would just like to offer some criteria to consider for choosing a name.
1) Either build on the familiarity of existing names, or make the name completely descriptive, so the name already suggests something about what it is. "Tumbleweed-Stable" is an example of this, as is Slowroll. Whereas something like "Descent" is only meaningful once someone reads about it.
I'm not really sure about using the existing name association. Tumbleweed is already a long name, some of the options are even longer, and with Tumbleweed we do end up with the situation that every mention of it ends up abbreviated to TW, which is not that meaningful to anyone. Using Google, searching for "Tumbleweed Linux" or "Tumbleweed OS" does show results for get.opensuse.org, while anything involving TW ends up with mentions of Twitter instead.
2) Keep to words with positive associations, not negative. "Stable" is a positive and really the actual goal here I think. "Slow" is only a positive from the perspective of "Tumbleweed moves too fast". For a new user "slow" may not sound very positive. (Nor does "sleepy", "stumble", "sloth", etc. This survey has lots of terrible names I wish I could vote against.) If not positive, neutral like "roll".
We did stop using the word stable to describe the release cadence of Leap in the past because we do consider Tumbleweed to be a distro that is stable as well, so I would probably avoid that. Downplaying how good the other options from us are is not a good way to go about it.
3) Don't create confusion with other distros. For example "Gecko" appears in some of the names in the survey. There is already a GeckoLinux (http://geckolinux.github.io/) which is a distro that is basically an alternate installer and set of customizations of OpenSUSE (both Tumbleweed and Leap).
It's openSUSE LCP [Jake] https://lcp.world/