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Berkus Decker edited this page Mar 11, 2017 · 3 revisions

Names

Good names are important! Already used names are in bold.

  • Metta - Loving kindness, good will, friendliness (thai/pali) -- libOS name

  • Vesper - "evening star" -- kernel name

  • Nabu - babylonian god of wisdom and writing -- name for text editor

  • Bragi (god of poetry) - another name for text editor?

  • Eir - (goddess of healing) "A breathe of Eir"

  • Erin - One of three queens of the Tuatha De Danann. (?)

  • Atta - self/ego (buddhist)

  • Oxia

  • Skuld (necessity, a norn)

  • Hild (battle, a valkyrie)

  • Bor (father of Odin, Vili and Ve)

    • a language as OS father seems nice =)
    • (btw, Balder can be (G)UI system then =) because Balder is son of Odin)
    • so, Bor -- Odin -- Balder
  • Jord (Earth goddes, mother of Thor and Frigg)

  • Magni (son of Thor, will survive Ragnarok, name means "strong") -- persistence layer

  • Snotra (wise and gentle goddess)

  • Vidar (son of Odin and Grid, will kill Fenris, will survive Ragnarok)

  • Synergy

  • Qismat - persian "fate" (kismet is very widely used in english) (-)

  • Mana - mind, thinking faculty (+)

  • Nilaya - abode in blue heaven

  • Sjofn (currently a linker/loader)

  • There is a Japanese word for this approach: jojo. Slowly, gradually and steadily. [name for package/updates manager?:P]

Buildsystem:

  • Olrun (One Knowing Ale Rune, a valkyrie)
  • Yggdrasil - the world tree

-- @todo organize --

amines — little agents that bind social services to exocortex. Mettamphetamine - main driver Dopplamine - doppler binding Twittamine - twitter binding etc Tryptamine - googlewave binding? :D

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