Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta

Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by graphememes on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:51PM (#17991278)

The name will be the largest barrier to entry.

It is not easy to say, remember, or look for.

This was dead before it even got off the ground, which is unfortunate because the OS looks nice.

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by osrec on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:57PM (#17991333)

I tried typing the name /e/ into my address bar, and literally could not get my browser to trigger a search. It kept assuming it was a path to a file!

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by JBiserkov on Friday September 14, 2018 @05:59PM (#17991355)

Try

    ? /e/

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by chooseaname on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:54PM (#17992025)

Isn't this the point?

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by suyash on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:00PM (#17991363)

Calling it "eOS" could be a viable name for lay people. Officially it can still be /e/.

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by shirakawasuna on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:05PM (#17991409)

eOS has trademark issues. Same reason that elementaryOS doesn't use it and actively discourages users from doing so. Though... users call it that anyways.

OP is right - they should really fix their name to address all these issues: (1) Search engine-ability. Zero people are going to be able to discover this. (2) Unique domain name. e.com/io/whatever is already taken (so is eos.com). (3) Not trademarked.

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by KeitIG on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:04PM (#17991790)

This is kind of already taken by elementary os though.

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by sdegutis on Friday September 14, 2018 @08:27PM (#17992171)

How about something phonetic like Slashy Slash (a la Marky Mark)?

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by SkyMarshal on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:32PM (#17991938)

Looks like it's already taken by a number of things:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eos

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by JBiserkov on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:01PM (#17991372)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by idle_fella on Friday September 14, 2018 @06:09PM (#17991444)

He wrote that they will change the name when they release the first version by 2019

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Re:Leaving Apple and Google: /e/ first beta by cgb223 on Friday September 14, 2018 @07:39PM (#17991968)

He should probably change it before then

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