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NixOS forked (aux.computer)
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[–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

What a horrible name. I literally had to search for "aux nix" to find a Reddit post mentioning the URL. Every other search term combination was giving me results for ps aux.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Same. Short it nice, but it has to be unique and memorable too. Aux is an already existing word.

    Things that don't exist yet

    • Lunix - sounds like linux and nix just with i and u swapped
    • Originix - very close to https://orignix.com/ but not the same
    • Nunix - New Nix
    • Froxin - Jumble of fork + nix
    • Apenix - Apex of nix
    • Nirofs - Nix Is a Read Only FileSystem

    Suprisingly already exist

    • Nuxor - Lindt Nuxor is a chocolate
    • Aunix - auxiliary nix - https://www.aunixinternational.com/ already exists though
    • XiniX - a mirror of nix (xinix.nl exists though)
    • Lixin - shit this also exists as a brand
    • Fornix - fork + nix - is part of our brain
    • nixzen - spanish company
    • zenix - Zenith of nix - another spanish company?
    • Apaux - Apex of auxiliary nix - surprisingly is a band
    • Araknix - some toy
    • naaix - sounds like nice - is a damn boat company

    Probably some LLM could come up with something too given a good prompt.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I vote for nunix, it's the only one I'd remember easily.

    Fornix sounds surprisingly sexual.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Agreed, I made a thread for it. You've got some good names!

    https://forum.aux.computer/t/aux-name-enhancement/179

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Thanks for sharing them. Looking at the thread and the author's responses, it doesn't seem like he's open to changing the name. Not sure if that's off to a good start, but we'll see...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What about Stevie?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sounds like a human or pet name. Would be a good name a mascot, maybe 🤔

    How did you come up with Stevie as a project name?

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