Wonder why would anyone name a Linux distribution – Debian or MEPIS? Read-on to know the meaning of names for famous Linux distributions.
- Ubuntu – Humanity
- openSUSE – “Software- und System-Entwicklung” in German meaning “Software and system development”. Since, it the free version of SUSE therefore openSUSE.
- Fedora – A fedora is a soft felt hat that is creased lengthwise down the crown and pinched in the front on both sides.
- Mint – A genus of strongly-scented herbs, some of which are used for flavouring. Huh, flavouring ubuntu!
- PCLinuxOS – The name says it all. Popularly called PCLOS.
- Debian – Debian was first announced on 16 August 1993, by Ian Murdock. He formed the name “Debian” as a combination of the first name of his girlfriend (later wife, now ex-wife) Debra and his own first name.
- Mandriva – Mandriva was selected to reflect the combination of MandrakeSoft and Conectiva. MandrakeSoft was named after the comic Mandrake the Magician.
- Dreamlinux – The name has it all.
- Sabayon – A dessert or sauce consisting of egg yolks, sugar, and wine or liqueur beaten until thick and served hot or cold.
- CentOS – CentOS stands for Community ENTerprise Operating System.
- Slackware – To prevent it from being taken too seriously at first, the creator gave it a humorous name. The “Slack” in Slackware is a reference to the term “Slack” as used by the Church of the SubGenius.
- Kubuntu – “KDE + Ubuntu = Kubuntu”.
- Puppy – Puppy means “small” dog, hence the name is well suited for this small Linux distro.
- Gentoo – The fastest swimming penguin. And believe me its fast.
- Arch – The similarity of the distribution’s name with the unrelated Ark Linux, was taken advantage of in an April Fools’ Day hoax announcing a name change to Ark Linux.
- MEPIS – Originally, the word “MEPIS” didn’t mean anything in particular, it came about by mistake. When the creator misunderstood a friend over a bad Skype connection, he decided to use the name because it was a simple five-letter word and there were no other companies or products with that name.
- KNOPPIX – Maybe, named after the creator Klaus Knopper.
- gOS – Google OS was the first impression when is saw this distro but its “Good OS”.
- sidux – The name of the distribution sidux is derived from Debian Sid (Sid Phillips character in Toy Story – usually destroys and tortures his sister Hannah’s toys.) and the common use of -ux for Unix derivatives.
- Xubuntu – “Xfce + Ubuntu = Xubuntu”.
- Slax – Inspired by Slackware.
- Elive – Enlightenment along with liveCD, my guess.
- Foresight – Foresight follows a rolling release cycle, instead of a time based release schedule. Hence , the name Foresight.
- RED HAT – After name of the company RED HAT.
- Ubuntu Studio – Explicitly geared to general multimedia production, therefore the name.
- Mythbuntu – “MythTV + Ubuntu = Mythbuntu”.
- Xandros – The name Xandros is derived from the X Window System and the Greek island of Andros.
- TinyMe – Name symbolizes light weight distribution.
- OpenGEU – Previously known as Geubuntu meaning a Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu. Later in time, for legal issues concerning the name, Geubuntu had to change in a new name not containing the Ubuntu or buntu name in it, therefore OpenGEU.
- Frugalware – Frugal means acquiring goods and services in a restrained manner, and resourcefully using already owned economic goods and services, to achieve a longer term goal. Since it is derived from Slackware, hence the name Frugalware.
- Pardus – The scientific name for the Leopard.
- Musix – It contains a collection of software for audio production, therefore musix.
- Fluxbuntu – “Flux + Ubuntu = Fluxbuntu”
- PUD – Penk’s Underbred Distro.
- Parsix – It includes the xFarDic English-Persian dictionary and several free Persian fonts from FarsiWeb and FPF projects. May be therefore Parsix.
- FreeNAS – Free Network-Attached Storage.
- DeLi - Desktop Linux distribution.
- RIPLinuX - Recovery Is Possible + Linux.
- Kanotix – The name “Kanotix” is derived from the founder’s nickname “Kano”.
Reply to correct me if i am wrong anywhere or add in the list to make it to 101 list, Plzzzzzzzz.
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I am starting a new series of post where i will be showing-off cool desktop effects, wallpapers, etc. These are not quite useful in day to day usage, but God, i love the look on the faces of my friend when they see them. So, stay tuned to make your friends drool over your cool desktop.
This show-off is for ubuntu users and it is – Animated wallpapers. It can be achieved by Compiz Fusion and XWinWrap combo.
To get started, you first have to stop nautilus from drawing the background. To do this, use Alt-F2 to go into a terminal and type gconf-editor, then go to /apps/nautilus/preferences, find the entry titled show_desktop, and disable it to “false”. You can also use this in a terminal to do the same thing:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false
After that install XWinWrap. It can be installed by this deb. Double-click on the downloaded package to open the package installer. Click install to install XWinWrap.
Now press Alt-F2 and enter the following command
xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -nf -b -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix -window-id WID
And, here you go glMatrix on you screen saver.
You can try few more with the following command:
Tunnel: xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -nf -b -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/atunnel -window-id WID Toasters: xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -nf -b -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/fly9ingtoasters -window-id WID Plasma: xwinwrap -ni -argb -fs -s -st -sp -nf -b -- /usr/lib/xscreensaver/plasma -window-id WID
Do not forget to kill the process from system -> administration -> system monitor before trying the others. To try other screen saver just replace the name of screen saver ( for example plasma with glmatrix).
P.S: Wished, i could show the video(will be working on it). Plasma can hurt your eyes. Don’t believe it then try it on your own risk 
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Yes, the much awaited google web browser Google Chrome is out few hours back. Yet, it is not available for linux now. So, i had to boot to Vista after a long time. So, lets look at some of its pros and cons.
Pros
- Clean and simple GUI – The GUI is very well designed. The clean GUI provides a bigger viewport. Tabs moved to the title bar helps the cause. Yet, the GUI is simple but it is very much stylish too.
- New Tab – The New Tab which contains Most visited webpages thumbnail, is quite appealing.
- Address Bar – The Address Bar integrated with web search and web history beats the Firefox 3 and IE 8 which do not contain web search.
- Tabbing – The tabbing system with some cool effect and tittle bar postioning is good. The feature to drag a tab to make a new window and new tab opens next to parent tab also is very good. Although, i liked the tabbing feature of IE 8 better because of colouring of tabs.
- Incognito Mode – Quite similar to privacy mode of IE 8, this is very helpful for those who use others pc frequently for browsing.
- Downloads – Downloads starts at bottom of the page and shows download status.
- Memory – The memory consumed is almost half that of Firefox 3 and IE 8.
- Application Shortcut – Handy tool for making shortcuts for webpages on the desktop. Quite useless for me, i like to hide my desktop icons.
- Task Manager – The taskmanager give details of memory and cpu uses for every page. Quite helpful for web developers.
Cons
- Addons – No addons. This is where Firefox kicks everybodies a**.
- No Home – There is no concept of homepage. The New Tab page replaces the homepage.
- No linux version yet.
- Every time i try to find one, the pros list keep getting longer.
The pros very much outweighs the cons. Being its first release, i think google has live upto its expectations. The time is near to change our web browsers folks.
P.S – I like the icon very much.