Comment by blauditore
4 months ago
Has "genode" any meaning in English, or is it just an artistic blend of "generic" and "node" or similar?
I'm asking because my brain read "Genocide OS" at the first pass, which seems a bit unfortunate.
4 months ago
Has "genode" any meaning in English, or is it just an artistic blend of "generic" and "node" or similar?
I'm asking because my brain read "Genocide OS" at the first pass, which seems a bit unfortunate.
Curious if you're a native English speaker - the "-cide" suffix has a general root meaning of "to kill", which means that words ending in it generally have the opposite connotation to the word with the suffix.
E.g. "Eco" has positive connotations whereas "ecocide" has negative ones. Similarly, here "geno" would never naturally seem to have negative connotations without the suffix.
Just my 2c
Well, to expand on your point, the -cide suffix is actually rooted in Latin. So, even us, non-native English speakers would sooner recognize that word as opposed to other words.
That said, the term genode is familiar to me, so I did not get the negative vibes.
They just read it too fast and it's the closest real word geno(ci)de
Please don’t make insubstantial comments about project names. There is a plague of this kind of comment here.
Well op has 3x more karma then you which means he's 3x more likely to understand the hn vibe then you. Secondly, the famous joke says that there are 2 hard problems in computer science - cache invalidation and naming things, so names of the computer projects are legitimate topic.
I rarely comment hence the low karma, which isn’t a reliable indicator anyway (plus this is not Reddit). And besides, this is my fourth or fifth account.
Naming comments are too frequently used to derail conversations here, particularly threads on FOSS projects. These threads never lead to a productive conversation and I fail to see any purpose other than trolling or “joking around” (if you can even call it that).
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your reply had me reread this and its apparently "Genode" not "Geode OS" which sounds cooler to me.
I'm always reading it as "geode", "genocide" is inserting quite a few letters there.
I too read it as genocide, the closest real english word, and assumed it was some catty editorial headline about Israeli army tech. But no, it was named before that word's recent spike in news popularity. It's from Germany so you'd have to consider it in the German language. There's no name explanation given, but -de is their country code, and geno- is from greek.
I've read it as "genocide" too and I scrolled down to see if there were any comments like yours. I wasn't disappointed.
My mind went to Genome :^)