17 things we'd change about names in Linux
What's in a name? Acronyms, in-jokes and lots of capital letters, if free software is anything to go by.
We look at some unfortunate choices that have been made at this critical stage of development.
01. Mageia
Mageia is probably the worst example of distro naming in living memory. We thought it was called 'Magela' at first, because we read the release announcement in a sans serif font. At least that's pronounceable, unlike the name we were meant to see.
When a new project's forums have more posts on the pronunciation of the name than the code it contains, something's very wrong. Fortunately, this is a fork of Mandriva, née Mandrake, so the developers will be used to changing names midstream.
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