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| ''Robinson'' || Township of Michigan. Also satisfies [http://nicubunu.blogspot.com/2009/05/not-comic-dark-chocolate.html nicu's test]. || It's a surname so there are proprietorships, but no product collision found, other than one abandoned application in TESS from the 90's. || || || || | |||
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| ''Rollins'' || City in St. Louis County, Minnesota; also, beefy guys in pop culture || No apparent conflicts || || || || | | ''Rollins'' || City in St. Louis County, Minnesota; also, beefy guys in pop culture || No apparent conflicts || || || || |
Revision as of 04:18, 20 May 2009
Rules
This page contains community suggestions for the Fedora 12 release name. All submissions must meet the guidelines for release names.
Cambridge → Leonidas → <new name>? Leonidas is a <blank>, and so is <new name>.
The link between Cambridge and Leonidas was "both are ships of the United States Navy." The link between Leonidas and the new name must be different than that link, and different from any other previous link.
Naming Schedule
- Name collection: May 18 - May 23
- List to Fedora Board: May 24 - May 27
- Board approved list to Legal: May 28 - June 8
- Community vote on final name: June 9 - June 22, 2009
- Name announced: June 27, 2009
Name Suggestions
How to use this table
- Come up with a name idea. Put the name in the first column.
- Determine whether it passes the "is-a" test. You must be able to truthfully complete the sentence "Leonidas is a <...>, and so is <YOUR_NAME>." The link to the new name cannot be the same as the link from Cambridge to Leonidas, nor any other previous link. Mark the link in the appropriate column, such as "river in Kazakhstan," "deep-sea organism."
- Don't choose obvious links, because they usually result in uninteresting names.
- Don't choose very general names or unclear links.
- Do choose obscure links to interesting things, which makes for a better name.
- Do avoid all previous links wherever possible.
- Do make sure there are at least a couple of ways to link out of the new name to the next name -- and they must be unique too!
- Use Google to search for possible trademark collisions. First search for the term itself along with "+software", and then broaden your search to include "+computer", "+hardware", "+technology", "+IT", and so on. Do not skimp on this step.
- If you find a collision, it is best to find another name. Names that cause collisions will be eliminated by Red Hat's Legal department and thus waste their time, which is a valuable commodity for Fedora. Help us maximize their effectiveness by weeding out names that are trademarks of other entities, especially those in the IT industry.
- If the collision is outside the IT/computing market, you can still submit the name but you should note the collision in the "Tested" column, and include a link to the site where the collision was found.
- If you find no collisions, make that notation in the "Tested" column.
- Do not mark the approval columns. These are reserved for the approval authorities such as the Board and Red Hat Legal.
Suggestion Table
Name | "Is a..." | Tested | Initial Approval | Themeable | Board Approved | Legal Approved |
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Ahasuerus | was also a King present at the Battle of Thermopylae played by Richard Egan in a film | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Amyklas | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Alexander | was a Greek warrior king | |||||
Anaxander | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Argalos | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Aristotle | was a teacher of Alexander The Great | Software company | ||||
Attila | is a film role played by Gerard Butler | |||||
Aurora | City in St. Louis County, Minnesota | Reuses the SPARC port name... | ||||
Behrman | ... neighborhood of New Orleans, LA, USA | Behrman is a publisher that publishes software books, but there is no software by that name that I can find | ||||
Bengal | City in St. Louis County, Minnesota; also, cat-related name | Possibly an Ubuntu spin called Royal Bengal? | ||||
Beauregard | Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War | No conflict found | ||||
Bolt | (Usain) is an olympic runner, as is Leonidas (of rhodes) | |||||
Bonaparte | Leader of a great army, also a gifted strategist | There are no meaningful IT related results for Bonaparte, besides the usual strategy games appearance | ||||
Brasilia | Capital city of Brazil as Leonidas is a city in Minessota | No conflict found | ||||
Cacao | Cacao is used to make chocolate | ![]() |
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Cambridge | city in Minnesota, USA | No apparent conflicts, though there should obviously a rule that excludes previously used names. | ||||
Cenobite | An action figure available from necaonline.com (so is Leonidas) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Chemnitz | Chemnitz is member of a european program called leonidas. Also it has one of the fastest and important fedora mirror and also a Linux-Event called "Chemnitzer Linux-Tage" | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Chestnut | Joey Chestnut is a famous (SJSU) Spartan | |||||
Chilon | was a famous ancient Spartan (out links: a place in Bolivia, a "chateau" in Switzerland, a philosopher) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Chionis | was a famous Ancient Spartan | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Chuck Norris | is a real bad ass that can beat an army almost alone | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Constantine | Township in St. Joseph County, Michigan | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Colbert | dude who tells it like it is and will ensure his unholy legion uprank this submission as soon as someone tells him about this naming contest | Only conflicts with Dems | ![]() |
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Coolidge | was a poet | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Côte d'Or | is a well-known Belgian chocolate (even if it's now owned by an american company) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Custer | was also a leader of a famous last stand | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Darius | was a Great King of Persia, Darius the Great | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Deus | Is another name of Zeus, king of the Gods. In many languages is the word for "God". It is the Latin word for "God", the Greek archaic word for "divine". | No apparent conflicts. | ![]() |
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Dillard | ... neighborhood of New Orleans, LA, USA | Dillard's is a department store chain, no software references | ||||
Dioxippus | Was an ancient greek wrestler | |||||
Dracula | is a film role played by Gerard Butler | |||||
Elvis | Leonidas was a king; Elvis is The King, mama! | The name 'Elvis' is not copyrighted. You can link out to almost anything with this - music, movies, Olympics, etc. | ||||
Enipeas | is a river in Mountain Olympus | No apparent conflicts http://www.experience.gr/mt_olympus/mythology.htm (does not meet link rule. Leonidas is not a river?) | ![]() |
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Entropy | is a concept applied across physics, information theory, mathematics and other branches of science and engineering. | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy (does not meet the link rule) | ![]() |
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Epictetus | was greek | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Eurotas | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
FLaming Sword | is a Flower (Bromeliad Vriesea splendens) as Leonidas is a kind of roses. Both are flowers. | There is a screen saver that has a flaming sword as descriptive name, but it is not a brand name. There is a novel. The name also partially match a TV serie. In the other hand, it is highly "themable" | ||||
Fontainebleau | is a neighborhood of New Orlenas, LA | |||||
Fred | is a Brazilian soccer player | http://www.photonengr.com/software.html (Optical engineering software) | ||||
Galler | Belgian chocolate. Gall also defines as "brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence", which is fitting. | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Godiva | is a chocolatier | http://www.godivaimaging.com/ ? | ||||
Goliath | is also an expedition in 2009 | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Gorbachev | was a President of the Soviet Union, so was Leonid (Russian version of Leonidas) Brezhnev | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Grandiflora | is a hybrid rose | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Hannibal | was a Carthaginian military commander | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Hubble | is an astonomer; a space telescope; an asteroid (2069) | |||||
Hippokoon | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Hoffa | James Hoffa is a famous (MSU) Spartan | |||||
Homer | was also an ancient Greek poet | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Jackson | is the King (of pop) and lets us get to Keating for F13 | Nothing obvious | ||||
Jennifer | Stephanie Leonidas is an actress, so is Jennifer Aniston | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Knuth | Donald Knuth is a famous (CWRU) Spartan | |||||
Kynortas | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Lakedaimon | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Lady Godiva | Leonidas is a famous character whose name was used for a belgian chocolate, so is Godiva. Lady Godiva was an English noblewoman who rode naked through the streets of Coventry Godiva | |||||
Lasus | was a Greek Poet | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Lelex | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Lilofee | is an asteroid, as is Leonidas | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Lindius | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Lion-O | was a leader with a name derived from the majestic panthera leo | |||||
Longfellow | is a poet | |||||
Lysimachus | was one of Alexander the Great's tutors | |||||
Magritte | was a Belgian painter | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Malcolm | was also a badass leader who fought against a much larger army. (Firefly) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Mamba | type of APC | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Manticore | A mythological beast that is part Lion (Leonidas means "Lion-like") and who's name is derived from the Greek term "mantikhoras" which is an erroneous pronunciation of the original Persian name. Lion; Greece; Persia... all connections to Leonidas. | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Masaryk | there are two is a links with Leonidas on this one - leader and asteroid (Masaryk is asteroid 1841, Leonidas 2782) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
McCarthy | is a male protagonist in a Frank Miller graphic novel -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_McCarthy | There is a McCarthy Software, but the name is fairly generic | ||||
Meiji | is a chocolate manufacturer (look for "meiji almond chocholate"). is also a lot of cool japanese things (era, emperor, university ...) | |||||
Menelaus | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Milca | is a chocolate manufacturer | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Milton | is a poem. | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Mimnermus | was a Greek Poet | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Moctezuma | was a governor -ruler- and a warrior. | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Morley | Edward Morley was a famous (CWRU) Spartan | |||||
µ (Mu) | is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet | (does not follow link rule) | ![]() |
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Munger | City in St. Louis County, Minnesota | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Myles | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
(Nadia) Boulanger | was famous teacher | |||||
Newen | represents the strength (newen in mapudungun) of leonidas | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Nod | nursery rhyme (poem - Wynken, Blynken, and Nod), also one of three fishermen (Leonidas was one of three brothers) | No conflict found | ||||
Odysseus | was king of a Greek city-state in ancient times (Ithaca) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Oibalos | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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One Two | is a Gerard Butler action movie character (AND the current Fedora release number) | A self-labeled synth-pop music duo calls itself Onetwo (no space) - no software/computer conflicts found | ||||
Orestes | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Orlias | is a river in Mountain Olympus | No apparent conflicts http://www.wildwater.it/it/orlias.php (does not meet link rule. Leonidas is not a river?) | ![]() |
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Orionidas | is the Spanish name of a meteor shower in November, as is Leonidas (note: purposefully avoided diacritic signs) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Paganini | was a voilinist | http://www.paganinisoftware.ch/ ? | ||||
Pancras | sanctified christian martyr | |||||
Pantaleon | was a Greek King | http://www.linkedin.com/in/nasosp, http://pantaleonsoft.com/ | ||||
Pelé | is a Brazilian soccer player | He still alive and the name may be trademarked. | ||||
Penance | is a movement of the Delta Halo Suite, as is Leonidas | Nothing obvious | ||||
Perieres | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Perseidas | is a prolific meteor shower, bigger than leonidas; also Perseus was the hero who killed Medusa and claimed Andromeda, having rescued her from a sea monster. | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Phantom | (of the opera) is a role played by Gerald Butler, as is Leonidas | |||||
Pilgrims | Belgian chocolate producer | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Polyantha | is a hybrid rose | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Puma | is a armoured personnel carrier (APC) | |||||
Quetzalcoatl | is an asteroid, as is Leonidas | There is a compiler by the name of Quetzalcoatl... | ||||
Random | Leonidas is Spartaaaaaa, which is /b/, which is Random | The term Random is generic enough to result in all sorts of hits while still not posing problems. (does not follow link rule) | ![]() |
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Ratio | is a word coming from the Latin, as is Leonidas | |||||
Robinson | Township of Michigan. Also satisfies nicu's test. | It's a surname so there are proprietorships, but no product collision found, other than one abandoned application in TESS from the 90's. | ||||
Rollins | City in St. Louis County, Minnesota; also, beefy guys in pop culture | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Romulus | Leonidas was the king of Spart as Romulus was the king of Rome (the firts one)! | |||||
Rugosa | is a rose, as is Leonidas. Rugosa is also a coral, a moon in star wars, a wrinkled frog. Roses are sold by the dozen, good theme for Fedora 12. | No apparent IT conflicts, http://rugosa.com/ | ||||
Schneier | Bruce Schneier is a badass with encryption. (and kicks Chuck Norris and Leonadis hands down) http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/ | ![]() |
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Shakespeare | Leonidas is a great person unit in Civilization IV, and so is Shakespeare. | [1] | ||||
Silverstein | is a poet | |||||
Sihabahu | In Greek, Leonidas (Λεωνίδας) means Lion's Son. Sihabahu is also a Burmese legendary hero, who is a Son of Lion. | |||||
Sócrates | is a Brazilian soccer player | He still alive, http://www.officeresearch.co.nz/products/workstations/socrates-computer-pods.htm | ||||
Sodaline | is an anagram of Leonidas | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Sturla | Leonidas was a spear-wielding warrior who died in battle; Sturla (Sighvatsson, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturla_Sighvatsson) was a spear wielding warrior who died in battle. | No apparent conflicts, it's a name from the 12th century AD and only seems to come up in searches related to modern individuals with the same name. (Side note: Odin is already widely used in software related stuff, otherwise you'd have 2 famous spear wielding warriors who die at epic final stands.) | ||||
Sultry | is a type of hybrid tea rose | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Teisamenos | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Telephus | was a descendent of Heracles (King Leonidas was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, according to wikipedia) | No apparent conflicts with this spelling, but Telephos may have conflicts in .nz/.gr | ||||
Théoden | Théoden King of Rohan from the Lord of the Rings | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Theseus | was King of Athens | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Touro | ... neighborhood of New Orleans, LA, USA | Touro is a college, but no software references | ||||
Truffle | Truffles are made by the Leonidas Belgian Chocolate company | ![]() |
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Tyandareos | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Tyndareos | was a King of Sparta | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Ulysses | was king of a Greek city-state in ancient times (Ithaca) (Latin name of Odysseus) | No apparent conflicts | ||||
Vaughan | is a doctoral student of Donald Knuth | Searched Google with linux, software, os. Nothing obvious | ![]() |
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Villars | is a swiss village and also a swiss chocolate make | No apparent conflicts, it's a common name | ||||
Wallace | is a male protagonist in a Frank Miller graphic novel -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%28Sin_City%29 . Also, is a great military leader who faced insurmountable odds (William Wallace). | There is a Wallace Software that makes auto dealership management software, but the name is fairly generic | ||||
Warspite | was a Royal Navy ship | (reuses previous link) | ![]() |
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Wonka | is a Chocolate manufacturer (in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and so is Leonidas. Is also a city in Myanmar | |||||
Xenophanes | was an Ancient Greek who died in 480BC | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Xerxes | was a commander in the Battle of Thermopylae | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas | ||||
Yuri | was a president of the USSR | http://www.yurisw.com/ ? | ||||
Zachariah | is the first name of a confederate general, as is Leonidas | No apparent conflicts. There is however a musician | ||||
Zico | is a Brazilian soccer player | He still alive, no other apparent conflict | ||||
Domingos | was a soccer player in the Brazilian national team in the 1938 World Cup. | No apparent conflicts. Lived 1912-2000. Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domingos_da_Guia | ||||
Monterrey | is a contraction for King of the Mountains (in Spanish). Leonidas comes from Lion, which is considered to be the King of wild Africa (Leon is spanish for lion) | No other apparent conflict | ||||
Name | "Is a..." | Tested | Initial Approval | Themeable | Board Approved | Legal
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Various connections that could be explored. "Leonidas is a ..."
- King
- Movie character
- Poem title
- Chain of (chocolate) stores
- Asteroids
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Rejected Suggestions
Name | "Is a..." | Tested | Initial Approval | Board Approved | Legal Approved |
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Ada | Township in Michigan | http://www.adasoftware.com/index_netscape.htm | ![]() |
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Achilles | was also a heel | No apparent conflicts (subjective, tenuous link) | ![]() |
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Benedictus | a part of the eucharistic prayer, song by Simon and Garfunkel, name of XVI Popes | (does not follow link rule) | ![]() |
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blackrock | Just a cool name. | (does not follow link rule) | ![]() |
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Connor | is also an "immortal", from the Highlander movies | (does not follow link rule. Leonidas was not an immortal (he died, remember). That was the name of the enemies he fought.) | ![]() |
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Destination | ... route after rom over more than one way. | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Intrepid | was a (British) Royal Navy ship | Conflicts with another distribution :) Link cannot be "ship" again | ![]() |
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Sparta | Leonidas was a battle ship and King Leonidas of Sparta died in a battle | No apparent conflicts | ![]() |
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Spartacus | Fought for freedom from the Monolith, Leonidas=(Sparta)n, Spartacus=(Sparta)cus | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus (does not follow link rule) | ![]() |