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Aux is more similar to Nix, than Guix is.
Guix uses the same concepts, but still is very different.
What a horrible name. I literally had to search for "aux nix" to find a Reddit post mentioning the URL. Every other search term combination was giving me results for
ps aux.Same. Short it nice, but it has to be unique and memorable too. Aux is an already existing word.
Things that don't exist yet
Suprisingly already exist
Probably some LLM could come up with something too given a good prompt.
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I vote for nunix, it's the only one I'd remember easily.
Fornix sounds surprisingly sexual.
And this sounds like nix for apes 🐵
I read it as "a pin nix" like appendix with a lisp
We are just evolved apes with smartphones
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Considering the word fornication, I'm not surprised fornix sounds sexual
Agreed, I made a thread for it. You've got some good names!
https://forum.aux.computer/t/aux-name-enhancement/179
Thanks for sharing them. Looking at the thread and the author's responses, it doesn't seem like he's open to changing the name. Not sure if that's off to a good start, but we'll see...
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He got convinced, its now Auxolotl!
https://github.com/auxolotl/
Theres going to be an official reevaluation once the governance has finished bootstrapping.
That's definitely better! 👍
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AFAIK LUnix exists as the "little Unix" project aiming to run on the Commodore 6502 computers.
There's even a video where someone got it to run on a Famicom.
What about Stevie?
Sounds like a human or pet name. Would be a good name a mascot, maybe 🤔
How did you come up with Stevie as a project name?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Nicks - one of the world's most celebrated female singers, famously part of Fleetwood Mac in the 70s. Thought it was a funny pun.