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[Sorry for the double reply]

Here's a silly idea: what about ZagrOS? "Zagros" is the name of the mountain range where the ancient city of Susa used to be. It's like the city was too small for the project, so they took over the whole mountain range, so they went from [open]SUSE to ZagrOS.

If you shorten OpenSUSE to OS, then add OS to the end (shorthand for operating system), you get OSOS.

Job done.

GeckoOS

or my personal favourite, OpenSUS

OpenSueMe

OpenSauce

• ChameLinux
• ChameleOS
• OpenCamo
• OpenChamo

Or, taking SUSE -> Soße -> sauce

• SauceOS
• OpenSauce
• SaucyOS

Debiain't

OpenSüß

Don't they already have the names Leap and Tumbleweed? Changing the name to Leap would make sense since it's the name of the "official LTS" version. At this point it sounds like "openSUSE" is the name of the project and not the distro. But I haven't been following them closely, so perhaps I'm wrong.

Any name that does not contain an animal.

I'd suggest "Spicious Linux", but it's a 5/10 pun at best, and too similar to "specious" which means "sounds legit but isn't"; not necessarily a good look.

"Opus" borrows letters and sounds good, but speaking of sounds, it's the name of a sound codec, so maybe not a good choice.

"Abstruse" has similar problems to "specious"...

"ChameleOS" is the name of a dragon in a game.

I figure if I run through all the bad ideas here, only good ones will be left... but that might well be specious.

anything with an obvious pronunciation

IDC what it is but they can pry that chameleon from my cold dead hands

OS² (Open SUSE OS).

Might have some copyright issues with OS/2 though.

Whatever you do, keep the logo. It is good.

Edit : Another suggestion: YALOS (Yet Another Linux OS)

I started trying to read through the thread, but there's clearly a lot of context that I don't have. Is anyone able to give a brief summary that would explain what this is all about?

Sussy

OpenSusan

Maybe MelanoOS (named after melanophore cells that allow chameleons to change color)

OpenAnuse

Chameleon linux

I don't use openSUSE. What are its strong points? As in, why would someone use openSUSE instead of another distro?

From the openSUSE wiki and DistroWatch, it seems to me that the distro's goals are the following:

• easy to use
• easy to contribute with
• good balance between stability and new features
• flexibility (see YaST)

Name the distro after those points. Or concepts playing with those points. "Chameleon" (as suggested by others here) seems to be a fun start.

OpenSesame

Chamel Linux, because of the chameleon.
Then since Tumbleweed is a rolling release, that would make it Patchy Chamel

This is my analysis of the situation: The name OpenSUSE is bad marketing and does need to change. I remember when I was choosing my distro the name was downright off-putting and made me initially overlook it as an option. It does not do OpenSUSE any favors.

The mascot and logo are very good, however. It is a solid design. Easily recognizable, somewhat cute and friendly looking. I even made it my app launcher menu button because I liked it so much.

The problem is that it is very difficult to base marketable name based on a chameleon. "ChamOS" or "Linux Cham" (pronounced "Kam" ), seems like a logical choice. However, people would just pronounce it "sham", which isn't making it any favors. You would have to drop the "H".

Ultimately, the name has to follow the conventions of other distros. Such as "linux X" or "X OS", where X is an easily pronounceable name with preferably fewer syllables.

My suggestion for names that would relate to the logo :

• CamOS (already suggested by someone else)
• Linux Green

Corporate Friendly Non-Branded Linux. CFNB Linux for short

OpenSus

Gecko Linux

Chama Linux is the obvious answer