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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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