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Is plan9 a good name for an operating system? It's named after (arguably) the worst movie ever. It's even bad as a trash movie. Is the code quality of plan9 bad

Is plan9 a good name for an operating system? It's named after (arguably) the worst movie ever. It's even bad as a trash movie. Is the code quality of plan9 bad?

nix23 6y ago
And Linux is named after a rude developer..or Washing-soap..who knows. An Oracle is the opposite you want of a Database, but Intel made a really good promise for others (Meltdown's). Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles and and and ;)
- kubanczyk 6y ago
  > Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles A ha! One of today's Lucky 10000... https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- officeplant 6y ago
  Wait do you really think Google is referencing Goggles and not Googolplex?
  - nix23 6y ago
    Yeah they try to rewrite history i think, but if you look at the old logo the G looks like Goggles, it's also more logic to call your search-engine goggle, and not a number, but anything is better then BackRub.
  - Aeronwen 6y ago
    Googol 10^100 not Googolplex 10^(10^100). Googol or goggles, it's still just a typo someone decided to keep in mind for a name.
  - type0 6y ago
    Google Glass should have been made as Goggles, design-wise it would have been a smashing success if they dared to do it. edit: they had that mobile app called that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles
Kuinox 6y ago
Are you comparing an operating system with a window manager ? We name products with odd name because they are products, you want to be different. Parts of this product are rarely named differently, a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd".
- nix23 6y ago
  >a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd". Embraer calls it's Side-Windows in the Cockpit DV's (Direct Vision) SSD's have no Disk. My WM is called i3 my File-manger Thunar or MC..Firefox whatever that is, git? Java? Go? C the successor of B..
  - recursive 6y ago
    I assumed the D stood for drive.
    - nix23 6y ago
      Hmm, it looks from this article all three are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive >sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk
  - Kuinox 6y ago
    SSD litteraly mean Solid State Drive. Embrear does marketing, adding shiny names make it look better, it's like retina, it mean nothing but people think it mean it's a good screen. IMO i3 is badly named, I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager.. git, java, go and c and are pronouncable name and are most of the time in context. It's funny that you put firefox in the middle, because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome. When I came back several week later, he was using Internet Explorer. Why ? Because it's called Internet Explorer and he forgot about chrome.
    - nix23 6y ago

Is plan9 a good name for an operating system? It's named after (arguably) the worst movie ever. It's even bad as a trash movie. Is the code quality of plan9 bad?

nix23 6y ago

And Linux is named after a rude developer..or Washing-soap..who knows. An Oracle is the opposite you want of a Database, but Intel made a really good promise for others (Meltdown's). Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles and and and ;)

kubanczyk 6y ago
> Google the searchengine is written wrong -> Goggles A ha! One of today's Lucky 10000... https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
officeplant 6y ago
Wait do you really think Google is referencing Goggles and not Googolplex?
- nix23 6y ago
  Yeah they try to rewrite history i think, but if you look at the old logo the G looks like Goggles, it's also more logic to call your search-engine goggle, and not a number, but anything is better then BackRub.
- Aeronwen 6y ago
  Googol 10^100 not Googolplex 10^(10^100). Googol or goggles, it's still just a typo someone decided to keep in mind for a name.
- type0 6y ago
  Google Glass should have been made as Goggles, design-wise it would have been a smashing success if they dared to do it. edit: they had that mobile app called that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles

Kuinox 6y ago

Are you comparing an operating system with a window manager ? We name products with odd name because they are products, you want to be different. Parts of this product are rarely named differently, a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd".

nix23 6y ago
>a windshield is still called a windshield, not a "wdsd". Embraer calls it's Side-Windows in the Cockpit DV's (Direct Vision) SSD's have no Disk. My WM is called i3 my File-manger Thunar or MC..Firefox whatever that is, git? Java? Go? C the successor of B..
- recursive 6y ago
  I assumed the D stood for drive.
  - nix23 6y ago
    Hmm, it looks from this article all three are used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_drive >sometimes called a solid-state device or a solid-state disk
- Kuinox 6y ago
  SSD litteraly mean Solid State Drive. Embrear does marketing, adding shiny names make it look better, it's like retina, it mean nothing but people think it mean it's a good screen. IMO i3 is badly named, I did read it multiple time _in context_ and I only found out later that it was a window manager.. git, java, go and c and are pronouncable name and are most of the time in context. It's funny that you put firefox in the middle, because when an old person I know started to use computers for his first time, I learned him to use Chrome. When I came back several week later, he was using Internet Explorer. Why ? Because it's called Internet Explorer and he forgot about chrome.
  - nix23 6y ago