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The weirdest naming scheme for computers I've seen is the one used some years ago by my college: It named Linux workstations after Linux kernel committers' emai
by hyperrail 6y ago
The weirdest naming scheme for computers I've seen is the one used some years ago by my college: It named Linux workstations after Linux kernel committers' email usernames!
There were the better-known folks like linus (Linus Torvalds [1]) and gregkh (Greg Kroah-Hartman [2]), but also relatively more obscure people, like shemminger (Stephen Hemminger [3]) and stelian (Stelian Pop [4]).
I didn't recognize most of those names at the time, but now that I do, I wonder what those people would have thought about having a large organization's computers named after them. A bit creeped out, I would think.
[1] https://github.com/torvalds https://github.com/torvalds
[2] http://www.kroah.com/log/ http://www.kroah.com/log/
[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkplumber/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/networkplumber/
[4] https://www.popies.net https://www.popies.net