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Steamroller, tugboat.
MX Packer, Picker, Mixer, Prime
MX Tally, MX Fetch (Fetcher).
App Gainer

Dolphin You mentioned pretzel, some food related: App Bakery, MX Candy Cane, Sweets, Jawbraker-MX.
And saved the best one for the end:
MX Extra Wobbly Spud Binaries
lol

Jerry3904 wrote:SysInstaller or sys-installer

+1

No cutesy names that do not imply function, please.

richb wrote:

Jerry3904 wrote:SysInstaller or sys-installer

+1

No cutesy names that do not imply function, please.

Why not?

What function do the following apps included on MX describe?

Xfce, thunar, dolphin, firefox, chrome, clementine, thunderbird ...

Eadwine Rose wrote:Serious suggestions:

System Installer
OS Installer

I vote for these, because they are neat and intuitive and all that. Also very translatable. (Some of the subtle wordplays, while it works in English, make me headdesk as a translator. )

MXpert as of expert.
MXperient as of experient.
MXperiment as of experiment.
MXperimental as of experimental.....just a thought.

1. I do not like cutesy names, (personal preference)
2. Those are all applications with the exception of XFCE and are not MX/antiX packages.
3. XFCE is not a cutesy name.

Other than that have at it.

EDIT: And a new user asks himself, "How do I install this?" Cheetah? If install is in the name it is more obvious.

Despite my earlier tongue-in-cheek suggestions, I don't think that linux veterans will much care what it's called, so I'm assuming that this exercise is really aimed at new users. In that vein, how about "The Disk Magician", which I think implies other functions besides just installing the operating system.

The user will see an icon on the desktop labelled Installer or MX installer or antiX installer. That is not going to change.
(I very much doubt anyone will install the installer on a live/installed system so it doesn't matter what the package/app is called)

Renaming the application, as I see it, is an attempt to encourage other linux devs to use our installer (if they wish) and even more importantly, contribute to adding features that are missing.

Added: For example, this is what is on the Debian debs page about the calamares installer

Calamares is a distribution-independent installer framework.

It provides a graphical installer that can be used with nearly any distribution. This package is suitable for live media on Debian-based systems, and won't be of any particular use on and already installed system.

You will likely want to provide your own config files to match your distribution, reading the Calamares documentation will guide you through that process.

anticapitalista wrote:The user will see an icon on the desktop labelled Installer or MX installer or antiX installer. That is not going to change.
(I very much doubt anyone will install the installer on a live/installed system so it doesn't matter what the package/app is called)

Renaming the application, as I see it, is an attempt to encourage other linux devs to use our installer (if they wish) and even more importantly, contribute to adding features that are missing.

+1 If I understand well nothing will change for a new user. He will look for an icon named "installer" and that's all.

If it is just a package name I really do not care what it is called.