Oompa Loompa Doompadee Doo...

[Franko]

Can anyone please explain why all these various operating systems these days have such stupid and ridiculous names that make half of them sound like something a tribesman in the deepest darkest jungle would chant while boiling the latest missionary who happened to wander by...  :confused:

I mean what's with...

Haiku (sound like someone choking on something)...
Linux (is that a fabled animal like a unicorn or a big cat)...
Darwin (thought that was a person)...
Java (is that a volcano or summit)...
Symbian (sounds like a race of people from Lord Of The Rings)...
Ubuntu (A tribal chant)...
Debian (sound like something a posh victorian family would have called their son)...
Koppix (is that a picture of Liverpool FCs football stadium)...
Jazmyn (a German porn star by the sounds of it)...

The list goes on and on, who the frig gives these things such silly names and why... :rolleyes:

Heck even Amiga.org is now classed as a Free Operating System... :lol:

http://www.freebyte.com/operatingsystems/#unix

Why, Oh Why, Oh Why...

[Franko]

Apart from Tones answer, it still doesn't answer the question about why folk give these OS's such silly names. At least WorkBench, MorphOS and (dare I say it) Windows actually means something and make a bit of sense, I just can't figure out why whomever decides then names think that they must come up with some totally absurd titles

(and googling for it doesn't help either, hmmm... google now there's another stupid name...

[Franko]

Actually Linus named it Freax.

Being a typical modest finn he would have never named it after himself. It was his friend who uploaded the first version to the Helsinki university FTP that renamed it (or rather he created a directory called 'linux' for Linus). Linus was actually quite pissed off but the new name stuck.

Ah... at least that explains that one (still silly though)...

Can't say I've ever met a modest Finn, the only one I ever met sounded like the chef from the muppets so it's kinda hard to tell if she was being modest or not...

[Franko]

@ minator

Some good answers there...

Guess I'll need to find something else now to criticise and grumble about...

(Hmmm... just a thought... the silly names folk give themselves on forums... )