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There is an effort under way re-unify the installer code base between antiX and MX, and give the installer some new tricks both on the user side and the developer/maintainer side.

But

We need a new package name for the installer, as they are currently

antix-installer

and

mx-installer

Creative names, right?

anyway, Please post any name suggestions you may have. Its not strictly speaking limited to function, it could have a totally strange name, as with “ubiquity” or “calamares”. The idea is to have one name, without the “antiX” or “MX” lablels.

Just be aware that this is a brainstorming excerise, and that there is no guarantee that we will use any name submitted. But believe me, naming ideas are welcome!

Thanks.

d.o.

SysInstaller or sys-installer

#X-Spirit ?

Gazelle

Brainstorm.

Imprint.

mix-installer
Winston
Starfish
Titan
unamed
Blobfish (it's an ugly Fish)
Tasseled-wobbegong (it's a Shark)

(give me a few days and I'll find/think of loads more... )

Monkfish?
(mainly because I fell in love with its flavor, as I have with MX, and MX-PI)

Discus (as in the fish) such a beautiful fish to keep and breed

Microsoft's Bane
Sanity Injector
This is not Bill Gates' Panacea Shop
The Windows Remover

Serious suggestions:

System Installer
OS Installer

GINI for GINI Is a Nice Installer or GINI Is Not an Installer

arjaybe wrote:GINI for GINI Is a Nice Installer or GINI Is Not an Installer

gold star for working in the gnu anagram!

Eadwine Rose wrote:Serious suggestions:

System Installer
OS Installer

Thanks! Tool names need to descriptive so they are not used only by initiates.

In economics, the Gini coefficient is a measure of statistical dispersion intended to represent the income or wealth distribution of a nation's residents, and is the most commonly used measurement of inequality.

Now Genie ("A fictional magical being that is typically bound to obey the commands of a mortal") OOTH could be "GeniE is Not an Installer"

Adrian wrote:

Eadwine Rose wrote:Serious suggestions:

System Installer
OS Installer

Thanks! Tool names need to descriptive so they are not used only by initiates.

You mean like Ubiquity, calamares and anaconda?

Colloco (I install in Latin)
Passe-partout

anticapitalista wrote:You mean like Ubiquity, calamares and anaconda?

Pretty bad names in my opinion if you lack the "Install" icon on desktop for some reason you won't even know where to look for, how would you know calamares has anything to do with installation?

But yeah, if you have a "Install" icon on the screen and in menu, the name is pretty much irrelevant, it could be very well be... *pause for effect*... minstall.

You could always call it "do not click me", and just wait how many do click it

I don't think anyone is suggesting that the icon on the desktop for the installer should be its name. Of course it will say Install(er)

GLinstaller - said glinstaller - GNU/Linux Installer

Mantis Shrimp, for the most awesome and badass creature in the sea. Destroys calamares and all those other wimpy sea creatures mentioned previously. Also called the "thumbsplitter shrimp" for some odd reason. Somehow was never made a character in "The Little Mermaid", Sebastian would have kicked butt as a MS.

inception

or,

lobotomizer64

portemanteau

"A word formed by merging the sounds and meanings of two different words"

Just like we are merging MX and AntiX installers.

Ondrive or Todrive (Twodrive)
Ondisk or Todisk
Diskman
Diskmonkey
Diskjockey

Eureka...Recognised in all languages..

Submiited to me from elsewhere in the world.

M.I.s.T.I.

Misti is the installer

I'm surprised no-one has suggested MantiX Installer.

Maybe I've missed it.

Maybe it's a lousy idea :)

Eadwine Rose wrote:
"Serious suggestions:

System Installer
OS Installer"

I like her suggestion too.

Use one of these, it SHOULD be descriptive.
Amen too that.

"Hold My Beer and Watch This!"

How about paying homage to two of the most brilliant developers in Linux history:

"WarrenAnti"

How about

FREEDOM!

(exclamation point must be included)

hello dolphin_oracle. thanks for the daydreamie, brainstorm excercise.

stepx , instepx , minstepx , beginstepx

portico

el camino , elcaminstallx

Adrianminstallerx , adrinstall

Maxine

Mx AntiX INstallEr

asqwerth that's a great one ! Maxine

How about Solid. Solidifies a live system to a fixed disk.

uncle mark wrote:"Hold My Beer and Watch This!"

Only if the icon is a bottle/can/stein! (depending on locale!)

Software Manager

to go along with the Repo Manager

hello dolphin_oracle

thinking a lot of d.s today. work-in "dolphin" if you like. ddoo. dedicate disk of operation. define device of operation. installer. determine declare describe dedicate delegate distribute duplicate design disseminate diffuse disperse delineate divide disk device où operation .
it will even delete if so desired. designate type of install. Users providing a customised iso will appreciate thinking duplicate and distribute. the installer distributes. It makes good decisions by default; the installer is now capable of doing a great number of operations to accommodate accurate installation defined.

dedicate disk of operation
ddoo-distribute

Hmmm....
OS2DISK
Might be confused with a cd / usb maker perhaps
OS2HDD

I think MX-Installer is a good name.

ww-installer (Warren Woodford's installer, since he wrote it first time).

How about Cheetah

MX is fast and so its installer like cheetah, which is a fastest animal and catch its target.

Auro Kumar Sahoo wrote:How about Cheetah

MX is fast and so its installer like cheetah, which is a fastest animal and catch its target.

+1

The cheetah is closely associated with the free pascal and lazarus projects (extremely laudable) but perhaps we shouldn't give grounds for confusion .....

Auro Kumar Sahoo wrote:How about Cheetah

MX is fast and so its installer like cheetah, which is a fastest animal and catch its target.

I chose gazelle for a similar reason - its speed.

Turtle - reliably gets to where it has to go.

Just kidding.

And turtles are amazingly fast.
We have a couple of big land turtles.
They just keep plodding while you aren´t watching.

If you're looking for fast, how about "peregrine" for the peregrine falcon?

pretzel is starting to feel like a pretty good name.

Adrian wrote:ww-installer (Warren Woodford's installer, since he wrote it first time).

That was a name I sort of had in mind.

And since some of the names now being proposed don't even include the word "installer", maybe call it "warren" or "woodford".

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.

hello dolphin_oracle
Glad to hear from Adrian about ww- WarrenWoodford credit.
Plugged-in the mepis11 cd to remind me what was the installer name. minstall. golly it still gives me goosebumps to watch mepis start-up. so hanging onto the original name seems like a way to credit mepis design. minstall. Adrian gets first vote unless there is resistance to a name with reference to Adrian in it. name it Adrian! a drive installer.
yo antiX-Dave your suggestions are like live2drive.
how about (?) the new distribution release name in concert with the new installer name thus: name the new installer Etude and mx18 codename Symphony.

How about Zoe Installer
"Zoe" is a Greek word for life. Installer gives life to the machine--so to speak :)

i_ri wrote:hello dolphin_oracle
Glad to hear from Adrian about ww- WarrenWoodford credit.
Plugged-in the mepis11 cd to remind me what was the installer name. minstall. golly it still gives me goosebumps to watch mepis start-up. so hanging onto the original name seems like a way to credit mepis design. minstall. Adrian gets first vote unless there is resistance to a name with reference to Adrian in it. name it Adrian! a drive installer.
yo antiX-Dave your suggestions are like live2drive.
how about (?) the new distribution release name in concert with the new installer name thus: name the new installer Etude and mx18 codename Symphony.

I love the music idea, thanks!

Thank you everyone for the brainstorming ideas. we are nearing completion of the code, and will settle on a name before we head to get the translations up to date.

I appreciate all the ideas and comments.