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Wouldn't popcorn be a better name?
by rjplatte 8y ago
Wouldn't popcorn be a better name?
- nine_k 8y ago"McKernel" is great, it both somehow refers to the architecture, to the fact that it's a kernel, and is unique and googleable. "Popcorn" is generic and makes it hard to search for the project, and easy to clash with another project of the same name. I wish people invented good unique name for projects, instead of trying to make a (b)ackronym or a subtle reference using a generic word.
- _underflow_ 8y agoThis does kinda sound like something off the Dollar Menu, though.
- muthdra 8y agoI thought of it as a joke name like Parsey McParseface: https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/parseymcparseface https://deepai.org/machine-learning-model/parseymcparseface
- bfung 8y agoOnly to the American audience. Doubtful that it evokes the same association in Japan (www-sys-aics.riken.jp).
- craftyguy 8y agoMcDonald's is in Japan.
- bfung 8y agoBut in Japan, is the culture there to associated all the Mc's with McDonald's, like in America? Do they even have the "Dollar" menu (Yen menu?). Anyways, I doubt naming McKernel had any thoughts of McDonald's and the implication of the cheap dollar menu.
- robin_reala 8y agoThey have おてごろマック, which is ¥200: http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/menu/otegoro/ http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/menu/otegoro/
- pvg 8y agoThey'd have called it the Kernel Royale.
- bfung 8y agoKernel Royale doesn't sound cheap to me, in fact, sounds regal =P
- pvg 8y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pkq_eBHXJ4&feature=youtu.be&t=59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pkq_eBHXJ4&feature=youtu.be...
- NetOpWibby 8y agoRoyale with cheese!
- tonysdg 8y agoPopcorn Linux is a thing, and it's a multi-kernel OS too: http://popcornlinux.org http://popcornlinux.org (I would know, I've been working on it for a few years).
- marssaxman 8y agoThere was even such a thing as "MkLinux", once upon a time! It was the first Linux variant I ever used.