I welcome the change. PostmarketOS doesn't really roll off the tongue

it's on Tubu. It's literally on Heebee. It's on Poodee with ads. It's literally on Dippy. You can probably find it on Weeno. Dude it's on Gumpy. It's a Pheebo original. It's on Poob. You can watch it on Poob. You can go to Poob and watch it. Log onto Poob right now.

At first I wondered why, but after reading I think it's a fair change. I'm not sure how I feel about nura, but it's definitely fine.

Vrei să pleci dar nura nura iei

At least they didn't name it some common noun like element or matrix or signal or whatever

is Nura the singular form of Nuru, the massages I keep wondering about?

Good move.

Name is already taken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXIPNw8Dnfo

Cool

i don't get it. their previous name was way better.

I thought at first the name "Nura" was from Esperanto, meaning more or less "current" or "up-to-date", but nope! It comes from the name for certain Sardinian buildings from the Megalithic period, "Nuraghe":Nuraghe - Wikipedia

Plz EU or China or someone. Base your new cool mobile device OS on this so we don't have to live in this duolopy of shit.

I have a tangential question. My understanding is that Google is requiring every Android app to be registered with them, and they're going to start blocking any that aren't. Are those apps going to continue to be installable on Nura?

I like it!! There was a brand of headphones/earbuds/something named the same thing, that one of my partners really loved. They were really sad when it got bought out and shut down, so it's cool to see the name go to something else that's awesome.

Went from a recognisable name, to one that's you'd forget the moment you look away.

This is a really directionless project, they haven’t got a single phone that they are willing to say this is the one you should get if you want to try this software. But they did spend a year and a half rebranding.

I want this to work but FFS pick a single device and complete it enough to show people a working OS.

Reading the article I can understand changing the name. Nura might even be fine.

That said, I do not at all understand going with a .eco TLD.

I immediately think it'd be some green venture or something or other. Even .tech or something else would be far, far better IMO.

The latter one is explicitly spelled on the main article, not folk etymology. The first one was my original guess when I first opened the article.

yeah that doesn't sound like an operating system to me, it sounds like an AI startup company

That is... not a good name lol

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nura_(Rapperin)

Will be a fun one on dupes

Interesting, I preferred the old name though.

The new name is far better than the old name. It's short, and easy to remember for non tech people. "Post Market OS" is something only geeks or tech people won't have trouble remembering.

The name is long and can be very hard to pronounce in many languages.

Who the fuck translates names? This should be a borrow word at max. Like, I would say postmarket oh es or postmarket os' (soft s), latter maybe more casually. I would NOT say "The after market operating system" in my language. If it's implying some groups are incapable of pronouncing English in any coherent way, that's just racist the way I see it.

New proposed name:

Programs, Routines and Symbolic Languages That Control/Dictate the Functioning of Physical Equipment Directly Involved in Performing an Industrial, Technological or Military Function; Designed for Controlling the Allocation and the Use Of Various Resources of Such Physical Equipment to Tasks and Remote Human Users; to be Used with Including But Not Limited to Equipment Originally Manufactured for the Purpose of Being a Portable, Wireless Telephone, Which Changes Radio Connections Seamlessly During Travel from One Radio Reception Cell to Another Without Losing the Party-To-Party Call Connection; Almost Exclusively Subsequent to the Term of Sale of Said Equipment.

One just has to translate the whole thing and it's fine, no way to mispronounce.

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Guess all my posts are outdated now but i do like the new name.

Yeah, "postmarketOS" had become a bit of a misnomer, since brand new phones can have it installed.

The sidebar has been updated💪

I have just upgraded my steam deck to CachyOS handheld.

Hey, that's pretty neat! It looks like the name is based off a rock structure in Italy, representing stability :D

It's also nice that it's easier to pronounce for non-native English speakers (or as a matter of fact, non-English speakers!)

The new .eco URL is also interesting, from what I can tell it's operated by a Canadian company called "Big Room", and to register, you need to pledge that you will support positive change for the planet and you need to be transparent about your actions that could affect the environment.

We've already seem sites with the .org TLD get struck down by the U.S. government (e.g. Autistici/Inventati getting sanctioned as a "global terrorist organisation" for providing email and blog hosting services to "far-left antifascist terrorists"), so moving away from that is probably a good thing.

I wish it was Nura OS or NuraOS.

Great, I like everything about it

The internal refactoring is going to be crazy, the amount of pm in the code base is crazy.

I just checked and for now internal everything is still pm.

Why are you renaming the project?

Through the years, most members of the team have experienced difficulties doing outreach for "postmarketOS" due to the complexity of the name. The name is long and can be very hard to pronounce in many languages. This also has the implication that it gets very hard to remember in those same languages.

The capitalization is also grammatically awkward, with lower-case "p" and "m" but upper-case "OS". We have seen Postmarketos (PostMarketOS?, PostmarketOS?, post-market OS?) written in too many ways, which is confusing to both the reader and the writer.

Finally the name is descriptive. Although that can help people understand what the project is about, it also limits the scope of the project in ways that were out-of-touch with reality long ago, for example when PINE64 sold PinePhones with postmarketOS pre-installed. What was initially an asset, became a liability after all these years. The name being descriptive also means it cannot be trademarked. We believe trademarks can be important, as it allows the project to protect users against fraudulent uses of the name, or users clearly misaligned with the project goals. A trademark for the new name has already been filled.

All in all, "postmarketOS" has served us very well, it brought us to where we are now, and will always be part of our history. At the same time, we believe that to make the project better known outside the hacker community, a rename to a name with less meaning and easier to write, pronounce, and remember would be of benefit of the project.

I like this rebrand. I didn't really like the name postmarketOS as much. Didn't dislike it, it was just that its acronym became pOS, which I disliked. Nura OS can stay Nura or can become the acronym NOS, both of which are kickass. Also, that logo is amazing. I'm hoping they succeed in their mission.

Go Nura!! I don't mind the new name, I just want the project to succeed and one day have a functioning phone running it.

Nur means light in Persian and Nura means something like "Shining" or "The one who brings light"

I hate it any time a project is renamed, however given that Polycystic ovary syndrome was renamed to Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome this year, PMOS is probably not a good acronym to use for a relatively niche operating system anymore from a SEO standpoint and it's always been a bit cumbersome to say the full name.

Nice name 👏