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Curious to know the Etymology of the 10 most popular Linux distros? Well, me too ... and I found the answer in an excellent post from Alt1040.
Among all the variety of Linux distros we also find a great variety of curious names that often make us wonder why someone would name something like that? |
Debian
Debian It was created in 1993, by Ian Murdock, the name itself is a play on words; since it was created as a contraction of the name of his girlfriend at that time (now ex-wife), Debra and yours, Ian. What better way to declare your love to a girl than by creating a distro with her names?
Sabayon
Sabayon is a distro that was born in Trento, Italy and is named after an Italian dessert typical of the region called Zabaglione, which is made with egg yolks, sugar and liquor. In fact it is a dessert known also in Latin America; in Argentina they call it “sambayón” and in Colombia “sabajón”.
Mandriva
This distro was previously known as Mandrake linux, which was maintained by MandrakeSoft, a company that lost the legal battle over the name "Mandrake" - which belongs to Hearst Corporation. Some time later, MandrakeSoft was bought by Connectivia, the result of that merger was Mandriva.
OpenSUSE
OpenSUSE is the SUSE community project, sponsored by Novell and AMD. SUSE is a German acronym for "Software Und System Entwicklung" - software and systems development. It has also been said that it is a tribute to the German engineer - specializing in computers - Konrad Zuse.
RedHat
There are three official versions about why the name of this distro:
- Red caps have always been a symbol of freedom and revolution; in fact they were carried by those who were part of the French Revolution, a Phrygian cap.
- Marc Ewing, co-founder of RedHat, had a special affinity for red caps and wore one of them - which was a gift from his grandfather - while studying at Carnagie Mellon, where each project he started was named after something he started. with "Red Hat". So the choice of "Red Hat Linux" was logical.
- Marc's story repeats itself but in a different way. In college, when someone had a problem with their computer, they went to the IT department, where everyone said they should talk "to the boy in the red cap." Marc became popular by fixing his peers' machines - and earning a few bucks in the process - in fact he became so popular that for a time, at his university, saying that someone was a "red cap" was synonymous with someone with technical knowledge. computing.
Fedora
Fedora It is a project made by a community and sponsored by RedHat, the name “Fedora” comes because that is what the type of hat that has the silhouette of the RedHat logo is called that way. It was a simple way for the Fedora community to say "these are our origins, but we are something else."
Linux Mint
Linux Mint was a website dedicated to Linux that contained tutorials and articles related to free software. At that time it was not a distro. Mint is an easy name to remember and also somewhat reminiscent of the coolness associated with penguins, the official Linux mascot.
Gentoo
Gentoo is a fully source-based distribution, what does this mean? well, this means that everything is compiled from scratch, which helps make it very fast. It's like making a custom suit. Anyway, the fact that it is fast made this distro change its name (previously it was called Enoch) to Gentoo, the species of penguin that swims faster (Papuan Pygoscelis, gentoo penguin in english).
Slackware
This distro was created by Patrick Volkerding, initially as a small project; in fact, trying to keep it non-serious, he decided to name it slack. Why in this way? Well you see, Patrick is a member of the church of the SubGenios, a parody religion that bases its philosophy on the search for slack, a sense of freedom, independence and original thinking. After that, the name stuck, the result being the contraction of slack and software.
Ubuntu
This is - without a doubt - the best-known distro of the moment and probably the meaning of its name is not a secret for any of you, according to the official page:
“The name of the distribution comes from the Zulu and Xhosa concept of ubuntu, which means humanity towards others or I am because we are. Ubuntu is a South African movement headed by Bishop Desmond Tutu, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his struggles against Apartheid in South Africa. "
Mark Shuttleworth, the patron of this project, was familiar with this current of thought and decided to use the occasion to promote the ideals of ubuntu. Hence the use of this name, which also reflects - on many levels - the principles of any free software community.
Source: Alt1040
A little over a month ago I left Ubuntu, great system, very easy to use, customizable, until they changed their default desktop to Unity, it was then that I switched to Fedora Lovelock that uses Gnome 3 and I really loved it, I even downloaded with higher and stable speed, so I hardly ever go back to Ubuntu one day. However Ubuntu was a great distro for me and of course I always carry its philosophy with me.
The article is very good, and like others I miss the explanation of the name of ARCH, on the other hand I swore that Fedora was a Russian woman's name.
"Was bought for bought"
Not for trolling but you should correct this sentence.
The thing about Arch thinking a bit may be because hunting bows were created by men from tropo hundred thousand years ago or by construction men, they thought much more than we do, you just have to see that they held the stones without cement and not they fall, for example, in the Aqueduct of Segovia. Arch is not for initiated people and you ride it the way you want, that's why they wanted to remember that the same
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You see, that Russian thing has to do with Mandriva's "blonde" nickname.
I told Malcer why that name since I don't like blondes and I wrote an article about it, I leave you:
http://theunixdynasty.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/origen-del-apodo-de-mandrivamageia/
Good people. This is my first comment on the Blog.
Going back to where the name of the ARCH distro came from, perhaps it comes from a contraction of the English word Architecture (architecture) and if you see well, the distro symbol has an appearance similar to a Cathedral.
It's just a thought.
Greetings People.
Curious that after all and concerning the reason for the very name of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth himself affirmed that this "was not a democracy" (in response to the numerous requests about the applications that Ubuntu should include by default) ...
Hello, the post is very interesting. Only those 10 distributions (according to DistroWatch) are not the most popular ... I was really disappointed not to see Arch: '(
It's true ... Arch is missing ... there we screwed up. Where will the meaning of Arch come from? Do you have any idea?
Hug! Paul.
Very interesting, I read it completely ...
The only thing I would correct is that the Sambayón has the yolks and therefore its very yellow color
http://www.utilisima.com/recetas/7144-sambayon.html
I have no idea, I would think that in Spanish it would be something like Archi-Linux, a super important or powerful Linux hahaha xD
Thank you! Corrected. 🙂
Haha! Corrected. 🙂
I really liked being able to read all the explanations of the names that the distros have, sometimes that detail goes unnoticed, which perhaps marks the very essence of the different distros!
Greetings!
It is not very good for all the information that is written on these pages since with that you can clarify doubts, it is very efficient
Debian is life.
The best is Debian, whatever they say 🙂
Tell me from a confirmed basis the origin of Arch plss