Like many common brand names in life, such as "Kleenex" or "Pepsi", their naming has some story in it. The open source world also has its own unique nomenclature, and these strange names have special meanings to some people. And we just know his names or pronounce them wrong. Next, let's take a look at the stories behind the names of these open source software.
1、Arduino
Arduino takes its name from one of the favorite bars of its co-founder Massimo Banzi, who likes to go to a bar called di Re Arduino, named after the Italian king Arduin 1000 years ago. In honor of this place, he named the board Arduino.
2、Debian
Debian was developed by Ian Murdock in 1993 and it was one of the first operating systems based on the Linux kernel. First released as "Debian Linux Release", Debian's name is a portmanteau (words created by combining two other words, such as "modem", from [mo]dulator [dem]odulator) . Debian was formed by combining the name of Murdock's then-girlfriend Debra Lynn with his own name Ian, thus forming "Debian".
3 、 Governors
Kubernetes is an open source container cluster management system from Google Cloud Platform for automated deployment, scaling and management of containerization, also commonly referred to as k8s. Kubernetes dates back to Google's blogging system, originally code-named "Project Seven," a new open source project inspired by Google's internal management system, Borg.
His name is a navigator named Seven of Nine in the original Star Trek, and the Kubernetes logo comes from the steering wheel of the helmsman in Star Trek.
4、openSUSE
openSUSE gets its name from Germany. SUSE is an acronym for "Software and System Development". "open" was added to the name when Novell opened the distribution to the community in 2005, following the acquisition of SUSE in 2003.
5、PHP
PHP was originally an HTML embedded language written in C language. It was originally used to help its creator Rasmus Lerdorf maintain his personal homepage. His name is a nested abbreviated name and is an English hypertext preprocessing language. (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor), abbreviated as "PHP".
6、Python
The founder of Python is Guido van Rossum. Guido decided to develop a new script interpreter as an inheritance of the ABC language in order to pass the boring Christmas. At the time, he was a fan of a comedy group called Monty Python. He felt that the name of the language should not only be unique but also a little mysterious, so he decided to use the name Python.
7、PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL was originally called "postgres" and was created by Michael Stonebraker at UC Berkeley in 1986 as a follow-up to the "Ingres" database system. Postgres was developed to provide an alternative to other open source database systems.
8、Red Hat
Headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina, Red Hat was co-founded by Bob Young and Mark Ewing. "Red Hat" refers to the red Cornell hockey cap, which Ewing used to wear during his time at Carnegie Mellon University, which was given to him by his grandfather. Students at the time would often say, "If you need help, get the guy in the red hat."
9、Ubuntu
Ubuntu (Ubuntu) is a Linux operating system based on desktop applications. Its name comes from the word "ubuntu" in Zulu or Hausa in southern Africa, which means "humanity", "I exist because of everyone. "Existence" is a traditional African value, similar to the "benevolence" thought of Chinese society. Ubuntu's goal is to provide the average user with an up-to-date, at the same time fairly stable operating system built primarily from free software.
10、FreeDOS
FreeDOS wasn't originally called FreeDOS. When the project started in June 1994, it was called PD-DOS. The PD stands for public domain, and Jim Hal wanted to create a DOS that anyone could use. Later they realized that the system should be a free DOS software operating system, so they renamed it Free-DOS. It was not until The FreeDOS Kernel was released around January 1996 that the hyphen was officially removed.
11、MariaDB
Everyone knows that after Oracle acquired MySQL, it felt that it was unreliable to rely on Oracle to develop MySQL, so they decided to open a branch, which was called MariaDB. MariaDB is named after Michael Widenius' daughter Maria.
12、Wikipedia
To get this answer, let's go to Wikipedia! In 1995, Howard G. "Ward" Cunningham developed WikiWikiWeb, "the simplest online database that might work." The word "wiki" is Hawaiian for "fast," and "pedia" means " encyclopedia".
Acronyms, hybrids, pubs, and loanwords are just a few examples of the etymology of open source names. What other weird names have you come across in the open source world? Where do they come from and what do they mean? Welcome to leave a message.