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Re:Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting co... by jhaynes on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @07:07PM (#22540940)
Glad you're enjoying them! We have a glossary just in case: https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket/blob/develop... (my personal favorite is Laika, the first dog in space and our pre-init binary)
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Re:Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting co... by paulannesley on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:18PM (#22542651)
Honestly, reading the glossary gives me Urbit [1] vibes :(

> bork: A setting generator called by sundog to generate the random seed for updog, determining where the host falls in the update order.

[1]: https://urbit.org/docs/glossary/

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Re:Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting co... by alkonaut on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @04:56AM (#22544207)
Agree. It's cool so long as the number of names is small, and the names actually are a pun on the function and not just e.g. names of planets. If "updog" is what brings something "up" that's a good name.

WiX (windows installer creation) has a multi-phase command line interface where the compiler/linker/.. has different names indicating the order they are applied: candle, light, smoke... Also a working system I guess.

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Re:Bottlerocket: An operating system designed for hosting co... by steveklabnik on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:00AM (#22545028)
"bork" is dog-talk for "bark", and so something that randomly gets an updog going being named such makes sense too, it's just a slightly more obscure joke.
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