Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:17:59 +0100 From: "Mario Goebbels" <mariog@tomservo.cc> To: "'Larry Sica'" <lomifeh@earthlink.net> Cc: "'Julian Elischer'" <julian@elischer.org>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: -current marcketting name? Message-ID: <200211022117.gA2LHmm01914@vador.skynet.be> In-Reply-To: <62809FBF-EEA5-11D6-B14E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>
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> >>> Do it like everyone else and pick location names... My > proposition. > >>> > >>> Can't think of any cool ones. Maybe FreeBSD 5.0 'Niagara' > >> or something > >>> :) > >> > >> Cleveland? Dresden? Tunguska? > >> > >> ...I'm thinking place names = not so good an idea... > > > > (forgot to hit reply all) > > > > Maybe picking names out of the period table? Names from astronomy? > > Like star or galaxy names? Stealing code names from > military projects maybe? > > That SR-75 prototype plane is codenamed Aurora. FreeBSD 5.0 > "Aurora", > > does that sound like a rip-off? > > > > Aluminum? Apple already has Titanium.... Alaska Antartica Siberia ...coz FreeBSD is cool? :) http://windlegends.org/windnames.htm Here is a site with names of various winds. A couple of nice ones in there, if it needs to sound weird and exotic. It also mentions "Dust Devil" which sounds nice. -mg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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