From owner-freebsd-chat  Sat Nov  2 13:18: 4 2002
Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9128A37B401
	for <chat@freebsd.org>; Sat,  2 Nov 2002 13:18:03 -0800 (PST)
Received: from vador.skynet.be (vador.skynet.be [195.238.3.236])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D07143E4A
	for <chat@freebsd.org>; Sat,  2 Nov 2002 13:17:57 -0800 (PST)
	(envelope-from mariog@tomservo.cc)
Received: from TSO (60.99-200-80.adsl.skynet.be [80.200.99.60])
	by vador.skynet.be (8.11.6/8.11.6/Skynet-OUT-2.20) with ESMTP id gA2LHmm01914;
	Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:17:48 +0100 (MET)
	(envelope-from <mariog@tomservo.cc>)
Message-Id: <200211022117.gA2LHmm01914@vador.skynet.be>
From: "Mario Goebbels" <mariog@tomservo.cc>
To: "'Larry Sica'" <lomifeh@earthlink.net>
Cc: "'Julian Elischer'" <julian@elischer.org>, <chat@freebsd.org>
Subject: RE: -current marcketting name?
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 22:17:59 +0100
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="Windows-1252"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 11.0.4523
In-Reply-To: <62809FBF-EEA5-11D6-B14E-000393A335A2@earthlink.net>
X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3663.0
Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Precedence: bulk
List-ID: <freebsd-chat.FreeBSD.ORG>
List-Archive: <http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/> (Web Archive)
List-Help: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=help> (List Instructions)
List-Subscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=subscribe%20freebsd-chat>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.ORG?subject=unsubscribe%20freebsd-chat>
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org

> >>> Do it like everyone else and pick location names... My 
> proposition.
> >>>
> >>> Can't think of any cool ones. Maybe FreeBSD 5.0 'Niagara'
> >> or something
> >>> :)
> >>
> >> Cleveland?  Dresden?  Tunguska?
> >>
> >> ...I'm thinking place names = not so good an idea...
> >
> > (forgot to hit reply all)
> >
> > Maybe picking names out of the period table? Names from astronomy? 
> > Like star or galaxy names? Stealing code names from 
> military projects maybe?
> > That SR-75 prototype plane is codenamed Aurora. FreeBSD 5.0 
> "Aurora", 
> > does that sound like a rip-off?
> >
> 
> Aluminum?  Apple already has Titanium....

Alaska
Antartica
Siberia

...coz FreeBSD is cool? :)

http://windlegends.org/windnames.htm

Here is a site with names of various winds. A couple of nice ones in
there, if it needs to sound weird and exotic. It also mentions "Dust
Devil" which sounds nice.

-mg


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message