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lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 1 year ago

NixOS forked

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NixOS forked

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lemmyreader to [email protected]English • 1 year ago
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An alternative to the Nix ecosystem.

https://hachyderm.io/@jakehamilton/112355361353931366

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    Aux is more similar to Nix, than Guix is.

    Guix uses the same concepts, but still is very different.

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      18•1 year ago

      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.

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        8•1 year ago

        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

        • Lunix - sounds like linux and nix just with i and u swapped
        • Originix - very close to https://orignix.com/ but not the same
        • Nunix - New Nix
        • Froxin - Jumble of fork + nix
        • Apenix - Apex of nix
        • Nirofs - Nix Is a Read Only FileSystem

        Suprisingly already exist

        • Nuxor - Lindt Nuxor is a chocolate
        • Aunix - auxiliary nix - https://www.aunixinternational.com/ already exists though
        • XiniX - a mirror of nix (xinix.nl exists though)
        • Lixin - shit this also exists as a brand
        • Fornix - fork + nix - is part of our brain
        • nixzen - spanish company
        • zenix - Zenith of nix - another spanish company?
        • Apaux - Apex of auxiliary nix - surprisingly is a band
        • Araknix - some toy
        • naaix - sounds like nice - is a damn boat company

        Probably some LLM could come up with something too given a good prompt.

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          6•1 year ago

          I vote for nunix, it’s the only one I’d remember easily.

          Fornix sounds surprisingly sexual.

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            7•1 year ago

            Apenix

            And this sounds like nix for apes 🐵

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              I read it as “a pin nix” like appendix with a lisp

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              We are just evolved apes with smartphones

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            1•1 year ago

            Considering the word fornication, I’m not surprised fornix sounds sexual

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          3•1 year ago

          Agreed, I made a thread for it. You’ve got some good names!

          https://forum.aux.computer/t/aux-name-enhancement/179

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            1•1 year ago

            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.

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                0•1 year ago

                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.

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          1•1 year ago

          What about Stevie?

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            1•1 year ago

            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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              3•1 year ago

              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.

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