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Try to Name the SuSE Mascot
The competition will begin in New York at the Linux World, which was staged Feb. 1, 2000 through Feb. 4; the final decision will be revealed at the CeBIT 2000, at the end of of February 2000 in Hanover. From all suggestions which we receive SuSE will select the most funny or best fitting ones, which will be presented to the public on our Web site. From these suggestions the public will then be able to choose the winning name. One of the suppliers of the name which gets the most votes will be invited by SuSE to the largest European Linux event, the "LinuxTag in Stuttgart". SuSE will also draw further winners from the hat, who'll receive a current version of SuSE Linux as well as the newly-named cuddly green chameleon. " Ya know, 'Rob' has a nice ring to it...
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Ummmm.... Suzie ?
25% Funny, 25% Insightful, 25% Informative, 25% Troll
I'm gonna have to think this one over, but mind you, I intend to give that lizard a hell of a name.
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon?
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you could call it linus but for the countless technophiles who had penguins imported up from the south pole just for that purpose.
-FluX
"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once." -David Hume
Boy George, the Karma Chameleon.
- Captain Picard
- Debian
- Darth
- Atriedes
- Clinton
- Homer
- Ford Prefect
- Natalie
- Mozilla
- Enrique
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RobLizo!!! :-)
Hmm... what to call a cold blooded reptile.
How about naming it after Jack Valenti, spokesman for the MPAA.
--Shoeboy
Dr. SuSE
SuSEanne Somers
Oh SuSEanna
SuSEan Sarandon (Ok, so the joke is wearing thin)
Linus the Lizard
Karma Chameleon
Bill Gates
Natalie Portman (j/k on the last two)
oh and by the way info on the contest is here
Yeah! Believe it or not, I've had iguana before... I know this will sound boring, but it does taste like chicken :)
- It reminds those among us who know things of lizards, and everyone else goes 'huh', thus helping me maintain my "I'm in the know" superior feeling.
- Those who've played Fallout 2 will immediately have flashbacks to ghouls and repairing nuclear reactors. Anything that induces Fallout 2 flashbacks is cool, even if it's a bit frightening at first. Those who've played the original fallout will probably, as a side effect, recall iguana-on-a-stick, with even better flashbacks as a result.
- "Suzy" is too hard to make a trademark out of. But can't you all just see it now? "Gecko(TM) is a registered mark of SuSE Linux(TM). Linux(TM) is, in turn, a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds(TM). Torvalds(TM) is, in turn, a trademark of...."
- And perhaps most frighteningly, if people use "suzy", they'll implicitly think of a female mascot. "Tux" is implicitly male. Soon, despite the will of many a valiant linux user, there will be an unnatural union - think gatekeeper and keymaster - which we must stop at all costs. Plus we don't want to get PETA angry at us.
In conclusion, a vote for "gecko" is a vote for a linux distribution which won't have horrifying, horrifying consequences on all of our lives! Thank you.-Denor
Interestingly, chameleon is derived from the greek word khamaileon, literally meaning "ground lion," which could mean that SuSE is (ground) lion country. Lion country is a term for some unknown and unexplored area (dark continent, terra incognita, etc) which could directly refer to Linux as it is just that to many people. They hear Linux spoken of as this wondrous yet seemingly far off thing that is at the same time fasinating and frightening. A lion dance is a traditional Chinese ritual preformed to bring good luck, clearly a referal to the installation of Linux. So many levels, that little lizard must be the coolest logo ever!
Oh yeah, this is about name for the lizard...um...Lennard. Yeah.
I wonder if we can come up with a name that is an anagram ofthe offending lines of DeCSS source?
To go along with yast.
..the band-shes, eh?
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I presume of course you are refering to people form seattle?
If you use "Dupree" then you already have a live incarnation with its own webcam. The same goes for "Akbar".
And if you go with the ever popular "Iggy", you can save money by using a beanie baby instead of manufacturing a proprietary lizard, which is exactly the kind of let's-not-reinvent-the-wheel mentality that makes the open-source movement go 'round.
"If one is really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without too much assistance" -- John Andrew Holmes
... was Greptile. Among others, but I liked
that one best.
--J(K) DOS is like Unix in exactly the same way that a pinto is like an aircraft carrier.
Geez I gotta do all the thinking around here? :-) :-)
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Sure, their mascot is a reptile, but how well does it scale?
Anyhow, I think if you're gonna name it Sue-something, Sue-sasaurous would be more appropriate. Why? 'cause that's a *big* chameleon!
I'd probably call it either Leon or Cammie, but maybe that's just me.
Yeah, I like "Cammie the SuSE Chameleon", that's cute.
But hey, at least I didn't say charazard...
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Larry. Larry Lizzard.
Hey Rob, Thanks for that tarball!
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Take another look at its tail...
Cheers,
Ben
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How about Quincy?
(Bill Amend might take exception, but then again,
maybe he'd be honored...)
Tweet, tweet.
seriously, doesn't the image stand alone by itself? doesn't "that SuSE iguana" convey the idea? What's the point of naming it? I guess you want to convey it with "mascot" status or something, but WHY?
Why must we stick a cutesy brand name on everything? Why can't we just have some things be purely visual symbols for once? I personally think that Tux didn't need a name.. that you shouldn't have to stick a monosyllabic verbal handle on everything in order for it to be powerful.. that in some sense you dilute the symbol and limit it by giving it a name. All of a sudden it isn't this ethereal, otherworldly, metaphorical iguana, standing for something or other; suddenly it's an iguana, one specific iguana, with a name and everything. The abstract purity the symbol once had is gone..
a haiku:
now i drop my post
into this sea of troll posts
where no one will read
Irritable, left-wing and possibly humorous bumper stickers and t-shirts
Good guess, actually. Male chameleons have horns.
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"'Is not a quine' is not a quine" is a quine.
Quine "quine?
1 small thing: some members of the iguana family CAN change colour. in particular some of the species of the iguana-family 'anolis' are quite capable of changing colour, even though over a more limited range.for instance the green anolis (anolis carolinensis), which is indigenous in the US, can change colour between green and brown. Also, it has the climbing abilities of the gecko with it's 'sticky' feet. The iguana family is quite a large one, with quite huge differences in size, the smallest iguanas are about 20 cm, the largest can reach sizes over 1 meter (all including tail) The iguana you probably are referring to is the largest one(I don't know the name in english I fear. translated from dutch: green iguana). it lives in the trees, but it eats mainly fruit. It does not need to be fast, fruit won't run away.
//rdj, used to keep a few green anolises (sp?)
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
If you're curious, you can see one ons /anole.htm
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/nature/wild/reptile
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
I have a greeb "Beanie Babies" Chameleon at home which looks just like the SUSE chameleon, at I called it Munchie for some strange and twisted reason...
So I think that Munchie would be a great name for the SUSE chameleon.
Otherwise, call it "Bud"...
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They are also not stylized two dimenional images designed to sell cool operating systems.
Besides, art gecko sounds much better then Blendo, the chameleon in a blender.
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How about SuSiE/suzy/susie/suzie the SuSE mascot?
(You know...after you spell and say the name "suzy" a couple of times it loses all meaning)
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Chameleon: "Brookesia spectrum/perarmata"
Brooks?
Brookie?
Or how about "Camile" the Chameleon?
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I'm sorry, but Carolina anoles don't even come close to chameleons in range, accuracy or intensity of color. I've owned both. Tha anole will do his best to change his colour to that of a leaf (when on a leaf), and to a branch (when on a branch) but is usually obvious. Chameleons have an amazing range, from pale green to black to brown and orange. More than a few feet away, on nearly any natural surface, they're indistinguishable!
Plus I've found chameleons, especially the Jackson's, to have a more pleasant disposition.
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Senegal chameleons have no horns. You're thinking of the Jackson's chameleon.
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Black. They usually turn black when they get pissed off, and mirrors definitly piss them off!
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Oh yeah! SuSiE! ;-)
It would be great for Tux to finally have a girlfriend
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