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Re:JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad by pekinlcc on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:17AM (#25809595)
Jing means Whale, so does the logo.
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Re:JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad by dathinab on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:45AM (#25809974)
It's not that simple, depending on the Mandarin writing it can also refer to "essence" and probably some other things.

It's appearing in traditional Chinese medicine and seems to be a fairly important concept there.

It also seems to be used as a name.

So Jing is a fairly wide spread well known mandarin word but a Jing + OS + wrong pronoun-cation sounds similar to a not that widely known english word which seems to have gone out of fashion quite a while ago...

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Re:JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad by pekinlcc on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:03AM (#25810051)
Yes, you know a lot about Chinese. But the Jing of JingOS means Whale specifically. You can check here: https://www.jingos.com/about/
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