udev fork name poll

szczerb · Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:46 pm Post subject:

I wonder if "e" is for "extracted" or something silly like "enhanced".

genstorm · Advocate Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 2242 Location: Austria

"e" clearly is for "electrified"

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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2064

vdev,

since v>u in the alphabet and also we>you.
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marens · Apprentice Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 172

Estados Unidos of course :lol:

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disi · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 1:32 pm Post subject:

John R. Graham · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2012 6:24 pm Post subject:

I voted gnudev. I'm the only one, but my second choice is nudev which, as of this writing, is the most popular. Either one captures the correct flavor, I think. Although I appreciate the current eudev name, I think it's promotes confusion because it's pronounced exactly the same as udev.

And, of course, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman on gentoo-dev, the name is vitally important.

Also, moved from Off the Wall to Gentoo Chat because it'll give it better visibility and, frankly, I think it fits better here.

- John
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eccerr0r · Advocate Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 3001 Location: USA

How many other distros would possibly go this route of using the forked udev?

If the intended audience is Gentoo only, I like moodev.

If there's sentiment across a lot of distros (slackware, mint, etc.) and lead them in development, then I'd probably go nudev.
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eccerr0r · Advocate Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 3001 Location: USA

Ah, looks like even Canonical decided to jump ship... Looks like Mint too if they use upstart?

Now Busybox's mini-udev is called mdev... that's really should be the "embedded udev" ...
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Ant P. · Veteran Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 1923 Location: UK

µdev still isn't taken, someone start a fork called that.

cach0rr0 · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 3:49 am Post subject:

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alkan · Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject:

what about edev.
does "u" had to be in the name?

hcaulfield57 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Mar 2012 Posts: 142

Since no one has pointed it out, the name eudev contains the prefix 'eu' which basically means good in Greek. It's a clever name in my opinion, but I suppose name doesn't really matter anyways.

griever · n00b Joined: 24 Sep 2002 Posts: 53

gruedev

it's dark ... dangit ... where's my lantern ...

=)

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steveL · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:13 pm Post subject:

I really think it would have been much better to get people's ideas on a name first, and only then poll the ones that came up.

In any event, I like moodev, for Gentoo, and the idea of an embedded dev, so what about mudev similar to µdev but using ascii, and pronounced like moodev, which keeps the Gentoo feeling to it: after all it came from Gentoo users. Or myu-dev if you know the Greek letter, or read it as microdev if you must ;)

After all, it doesn't matter how you read it, so long as it is a simple package name that doesn't get confused with udev, and like some others I hate suffices like udev-ng. Also, I like the idea of the same spirit as mdev, but with full udev functionality for non-embedded environments.

I'd go with moodev if it were just internal to Gentoo, but since it can be used on other distros (debian people are already collaborating in #gentoo-udev) I think they'd find it a bit silly.

Fitzcarraldo · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 4:40 pm Post subject:

Isn't this poll academic now? After all, both the official and unofficial forks already have names.
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genstorm · Advocate Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 2242 Location: Austria

I like your use of 'academic' there.

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steveL · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2012 7:21 pm Post subject:

trismo · n00b Joined: 26 May 2012 Posts: 26

why not gendev

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Jimmy Jazz · Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 12:36 am Post subject:

udevs udev sucks

without the u

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