[gold-devel] Proposed name for entire operating system

[James Lee]

I agree we should possibly think of a new name for the OS (other than
gold)... but PreciOS is not it. ;)
I still kinda like the name of my (defunct) "Terra OS". Unfortunately
it clashes a bit with "Terra Soft". But I'm not going to push for that
name anyway, just throwing ideas around.

On 29/03/07, Adam Martin <adam at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> wrote:
> All,
>
>         Justin and I were talking a few days ago, and I suggested the name
> "PreciOS" (Think both "precious" and "precision") as a pun on "Gold"
> for the name of the whole operating system.  Wanted to get everyone's
> feedback on it.  I suggest we have a name, other than Gold, for the
> whole idea, simply to avoid confusion.  The term "Gold" has too many
> other terms tied in with it, and has become the name of both the
> whole system, and the userland component.  So I suggest a new name
> for the whole system; this will also ease in explaining the concept
> to people.  (No need to rename the source tree, or the source files.
> Just call the whole mess, when installed "PreciOS", and setup a
> website too.)
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> ADAM David Alan Martin
>
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