EnOS or Eos?

Lounge EndeavourOS pub
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I am in the EOS camp personally.

I think EnOS came about to avoid conflicting with Elementary OS but I have never been able to get into it.

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No, we’re not the Arch forums. They are crammed full of fathoms more info. BUT, they definitely don’t have fun like we do!

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EOS it is. :wink:

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Eos is a scantily clad goddess.

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Yer that’s the one I tend to use

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I should think “Captain Cook OS” , “Rama OS”, or “Space Shuttle OS” would work as well

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Or even EndeavourOS 9000; for you space odyssey fans out there, HAL 9000 :wink:

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A great discovery. :blush:

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I’m old :white_hair: and remember when it was released in theatres.

Michael

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I use EnOS, btw!

:enos_flag: (aka :enos_flag:)

:enos: (aka :enos:)

:rocketa_purple:

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I don’t want to be confused with a goddess(!) so I use EnOS…

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Enos (biblical figure) is a character in the Book of Genesis.
In my opinion, no better. :stuck_out_tongue:

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EnOS ≠ Enos

Linux is case sensitive!
:nerd_face:

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The EndeavourOS devs seem to prefer EOS:

eos-apps-info-1.2.5-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
eos-bash-shared-1.10.35-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
eos-hooks-1.4.20-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
eos-lightdm-slick-theme-2.0-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
eos-log-tool-1.4.13-1.1-any.pkg.tar.zst
eos-lxdm-gtk3-0.5.3-4-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
eos-packagelist-1.5.1-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
etc

Not an EnOS in sight. Just sayin’…

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Ah, but do they have a flag? :wink: :enos_flag:

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and…
eos-log-tool
eos-update-notifier
eos-rankmirrors
eos-translations
etc

Michael

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See this post to see how HAL 9000 got it’s name.

Pudge

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Both Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke have stated that HAL was not intentionally named to be “one letter off” from IBM.

Clarke wrote in his 1972 book The Lost Worlds of 2001 (a fascinating read about the development of the movie and novel, highly recommended for fans of 2001: A Space Odyssey):

…about once a week some character spots the fact that HAL is one letter ahead of IBM, and promptly assumes that Stanley and I were taking a crack at the estimable institution … As it happened, IBM had given us a good deal of help, so we were quite embarrassed by this, and would have changed the name had we spotted the coincidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000#Origin_of_name

On a somewhat related note, the earliest recorded instance of a synthesized human voice singing a song was made on an IBM 704 mainframe computer at Bell Laboratories, and features the computer singing the song Bicycle Built for Two (aka Daisy, Daisy). Clarke heard this while visiting Bell Laboratories, and included the song in the novel and screenplay for 2001 as an homage.

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Maybe Reddit know the answer: Eos vs Enos

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Now that @Stagger_Lee and @Pudge have explained the IBM → HAL transposition, on that basis we finish up with DNR

Michael

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