http://www.osnews.com/story/21649/StormOS_Beta_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2012, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:30:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?367871 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367871 This is what I've been waiting for. I actually had made some fairly minor progress doing something similar myself. Open Solaris core + Gui + Gnu tools = my next Desktop os. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?367909 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367909 Some years ago, around 2001, I got into the Linux/Unix world. My first Linux server ran Storm-Linux version "Hail!". It was some Debian derivative.
The funny thing is the name, which is very identical to this new Solaris-Ubuntu-merge.

Why is it called StormOS, and why particular "Hail" as the version?
Are there any kind of relations to this old (surely dead by now) Storm-Linux? Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:39:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (lasg.dk) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?367911 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367911 What associations would exist in your mind if it were called "InternationaleOS" and the first expression of it were named "Comrade"? Just work out the opposite and you might want to reconsider

Edited - sorry, should have been a reply to the previous poster.Edited 2009-06-11 10:05 UTC Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orfanum) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?367959 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367959 That would only work in English as a pun. The Nazi greeting was 'heil' not hail. Even as a joke, that's sort of in bad taste. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?367965 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367965 Well, it was not meant as a joke in bad taste - if I can make this connection, so can others, and it might be advisable therefore to call it something else. We've just had the BNP voted in here - call me oversensitive if you wish but rebranding might be in order. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:42:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (orfanum) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?367966 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367966 Hi everyone (I'm new here),
I just found that: http://www.stormos.org/node/14
I must admit I had similar associations as orfanum. Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chrispy) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?367983 http://www.osnews.com/thread?367983 Yeah, I'd call the critique over sensitive. I wouldn't change it. I don't even know if I fully understand it. What does storm have to do with the nazis? Would obeying the general rule just ban the word "hail" from any product/service?

Microsoft had a similar code name for the .net web services "hailstorm". Did that lead anyone to label Microsoft anti-semetic? No. No one even thought of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailstorm Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Bill Shooter of Bul) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?368065 http://www.osnews.com/thread?368065 Just tried MilaX 0.4 in VirtualBox, and was impressed how well it worked. Haven't tried installing it for real though. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (pepa) Comments