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Re:JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad by dathinab on Sunday January 17, 2021 @06:37AM (#25809944)
I don't follow.

It's clearly <Jing><Os>, and Jing sounds like something which is likely a Mandarin (or other Asian language) word. And Os is a widely accepted name suffix for operating system.

And it turns out it is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing_(Chinese_medicine)) and it's a widely used/known word, too.

Additionally Jingoism, isn't really that commonly used. Most non-native speaker which are not reading certain political news outlets likely have never heard about this word before (like me). It's definitely not part of the vocabulary thought in (non native) english school courses.

Lastly, where would we end up if we have negative sentiment, every time a wrongly pronounced word happened to sound similar to a word in another language which has negative sentiment attached with it. At that point we probably would need to remove a non small part of names and the english language because wrongly pronouncing it makes it sound like a bad word in some other language...

Re:JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad by ylyn on Sunday January 17, 2021 @07:57AM (#25810313)
Their about page[1] says the jing in their company name (Jingling) is 鲸, meaning whale. I don't know if that extends to the OS name as well. (They use "JingOS" even in Chinese prose.)

[1]: https://www.jingos.com/about/

Re:JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad by dathinab on Sunday January 17, 2021 @09:45AM (#25811003)
It probably should and given the branding I thing it makes sense to not mix Hanzi and Latin Characters.

It's just that there is:

- Jing = 鲸

- Jing as simpl. of jīng = 精

- Jing as simpl. of jīng = 經

- ...?

I wouldn't be surprised if they did consider this similar words when creating JingOs as JingOs is the essence (精) which becomes the structure they wave their ecosystem and as such success around (like Warp~經 is for weaving fabrics).

Or this is just a nice coincidence ;=)

But either way interpreting <Jing><Os> as a call out to <jingo><-ism> is very far fetched.