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Sorry for asking, but am I right that this project has no relation whatsoever with the well-established Cairo library, which has been around for almost 20 years

by kleiba 4y ago

Sorry for asking, but am I right that this project has no relation whatsoever with the well-established Cairo library, which has been around for almost 20 years? https://www.cairographics.org/ https://www.cairographics.org/ If so, it would be a pretty terrible choice of name for a project with a focus on something that's visual (an alternative Windows desktop), given that cairolib is a graphics lib. I, for one, have been rather confused.

mhd 4y ago
I think the project's name is referring to the unreleased "predecessor" of Windows 95, which existed quite a few years before that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)
- frozenport 4y ago
  would make sense, but the two look quiet different?
- alrlroipsp 4y ago
  Would make more sense to call it LONGHORN then by this association.
  - adastra22 4y ago
    Well seeing as a longhorn is a form of gnu, maybe they should call it that. Shorter.
  - snowram 4y ago
    Like the distributed block storage solution for Kubernetes?
    - alrlroipsp 4y ago
      Ok, zoomer.
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jraph 4y ago
There was also a dock named cairo-dock that could be used as a desktop environment in the free desktop world. http://www.glx-dock.org/ http://www.glx-dock.org/
jb1991 4y ago
I was also very confused, I thought this was a new desktop environment rendered with the Cairo library. It is a poor choice of name.
wirrbel 4y ago
How about not choosing a project name in relation to a well-established city in egypt? /s Like the space for project names is pretty much overloaded multiple times already. Unless we start to use funny words of the dictionary like 'carbuncle'.
- kleiba 4y ago
  10-15 years ago, funny made up names were all the rage for startups.
  - mekkkkkk 4y ago
    Nowadays you just take any remotely related word and add "ly" or "ify" at the end. Much more consistent!
xanathar 4y ago
Besides the graphic library, the Windows codename and the dock, there's also a somewhat odd exotic programming language - https://www.cairo-lang.org/ https://www.cairo-lang.org/

by kleiba 4y ago

mhd 4y ago

I think the project's name is referring to the unreleased "predecessor" of Windows 95, which existed quite a few years before that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(operating_system)

frozenport 4y ago
would make sense, but the two look quiet different?
alrlroipsp 4y ago
Would make more sense to call it LONGHORN then by this association.
- adastra22 4y ago
  Well seeing as a longhorn is a form of gnu, maybe they should call it that. Shorter.
- snowram 4y ago
  Like the distributed block storage solution for Kubernetes?
  - alrlroipsp 4y ago
    Ok, zoomer.

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jraph 4y ago

There was also a dock named cairo-dock that could be used as a desktop environment in the free desktop world. http://www.glx-dock.org/ http://www.glx-dock.org/

jb1991 4y ago

I was also very confused, I thought this was a new desktop environment rendered with the Cairo library. It is a poor choice of name.

wirrbel 4y ago

How about not choosing a project name in relation to a well-established city in egypt? /s Like the space for project names is pretty much overloaded multiple times already. Unless we start to use funny words of the dictionary like 'carbuncle'.

kleiba 4y ago
10-15 years ago, funny made up names were all the rage for startups.
- mekkkkkk 4y ago
  Nowadays you just take any remotely related word and add "ly" or "ify" at the end. Much more consistent!

xanathar 4y ago

Besides the graphic library, the Windows codename and the dock, there's also a somewhat odd exotic programming language - https://www.cairo-lang.org/ https://www.cairo-lang.org/