Name suggestions for Fedora 12

Rules

This page contains community suggestions for the Fedora 12 release name. All submissions must meet the guidelines for release names.

Cambridge → Leonidas → <new name>? Leonidas is a <blank>, and so is <new name>.

The link between Cambridge and Leonidas was "both are ships of the United States Navy." The link between Leonidas and the new name must be different than that link, and different from any other previous link.

General links automatically rejected
General links such as "is a word" or "is a location", while technically within the scope of the rules, will most certainly be rejected by the Fedora Board. Remember, the goal is to come up with a creative link to Leonidas.

Naming Schedule

• Name collection: May 18 - May 23
• List to Fedora Board: May 24 - May 27
• Board approved list to Legal: May 28 - June 8
• Community vote on final name: June 9 - June 22, 2009
• Name announced: June 27, 2009

Name Suggestions

Please read carefully.
The instructions below will help prevent some suggestions from being eliminated early.

How to use this table

1. Come up with a name idea. Put the name in the first column.
2. Determine whether it passes the "is-a" test. You must be able to truthfully complete the sentence "Leonidas is a <...>, and so is <YOUR_NAME>." The link to the new name cannot be the same as the link from Cambridge to Leonidas, nor any other previous link. Mark the link in the appropriate column, such as "river in Kazakhstan," "deep-sea organism."
   • Don't choose obvious links, because they usually result in uninteresting names.
   • Don't choose very general names or unclear links.
   • Do choose obscure links to interesting things, which makes for a better name.
   • Do avoid all previous links wherever possible.
   • Do make sure there are at least a couple of ways to link out of the new name to the next name -- and they must be unique too!
3. Use Google to search for possible trademark collisions. First search for the term itself along with "+software", and then broaden your search to include "+computer", "+hardware", "+technology", "+IT", and so on. Do not skimp on this step.
   • If you find a collision, it is best to find another name. Names that cause collisions will be eliminated by Red Hat's Legal department and thus waste their time, which is a valuable commodity for Fedora. Help us maximize their effectiveness by weeding out names that are trademarks of other entities, especially those in the IT industry.
   • If the collision is outside the IT/computing market, you can still submit the name but you should note the collision in the "Tested" column, and include a link to the site where the collision was found.
   • If you find no collisions, make that notation in the "Tested" column.
4. Do not mark the approval columns. These are reserved for the approval authorities such as the Board and Red Hat Legal.

Suggestion Table

Name	"Is a..."	Tested	Initial Approval	Themeable	Board Approved	Legal Approved
Ahasuerus	was also a King present at the Battle of Thermopylae played by Richard Egan in a film	No apparent conflicts
Amyklas	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Alexander	was a Greek warrior king
Anaxander	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
Argalos	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Aristotle	was a teacher of Alexander The Great	Software company
Attila	is a film role played by Gerard Butler
Aurora	City in St. Louis County, Minnesota	Reuses the SPARC port name...
Behrman	... neighborhood of New Orleans, LA, USA	Behrman is a publisher that publishes software books, but there is no software by that name that I can find
Bengal	City in St. Louis County, Minnesota; also, cat-related name	Possibly an Ubuntu spin called Royal Bengal?
Bolt	(Usain) is an olympic runner, as is Leonidas (of rhodes)
Bonaparte	Leader of a great army, also a gifted strategist	There are no meaningful IT related results for Bonaparte, besides the usual strategy games appearance
Brasilia	Capital city of Brazil as Leonidas is a city in Minessota	No conflict found
Cacao	Cacao is used to make chocolate
Chemnitz	Chemnitz is member of a european program called leonidas. Also it has one of the fastest and important fedora mirror and also a Linux-Event called "Chemnitzer Linux-Tage"	No apparent conflicts
Chestnut	Joey Chestnut is a famous (SJSU) Spartan
Chilon	was a famous ancient Spartan (out links: a place in Bolivia, a "chateau" in Switzerland, a philosopher)	No apparent conflicts
Chionis	was a famous Ancient Spartan	No apparent conflicts
Chuck Norris	is a real bad ass that can beat an army almost alone	No apparent conflicts	'real bad ass' is a rather tenuous "is-a" link
Constantine	Township in St. Joseph County, Michigan	No apparent conflicts
Colbert	dude who tells it like it is and will ensure his unholy legion uprank this submission as soon as someone tells him about this naming contest	Only conflicts with Dems
Coolidge	was a poet	No apparent conflicts
Côte d'Or	is a well-known Belgian chocolate (even if it's now owned by an american company)	No apparent conflicts
Custer	was also a leader of a famous last stand	No apparent conflicts
Darius	was a Great King of Persia, Darius the Great	No apparent conflicts
Deus	Is the Latin word for "God" and the Greek word for "divine"	No apparent conflicts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deus
Dillard	... neighborhood of New Orleans, LA, USA	Dillard's is a department store chain, no software references
Dioxippus	Was an ancient greek wrestler
Dracula	is a film role played by Gerard Butler
Elvis	Leonidas was a king; Elvis is The King, mama!	The name 'Elvis' is not copyrighted. You can link out to almost anything with this - music, movies, Olympics, etc.
Enipeas	is a river in Mountain Olympus	No apparent conflicts http://www.experience.gr/mt_olympus/mythology.htm
Entropy	is a concept applied across physics, information theory, mathematics and other branches of science and engineering.	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy (does not meet the link rule)
Epictetus	was greek	No apparent conflicts	sort of a weak link
Eurotas	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
FLaming Sword	is a Flower (Bromeliad Vriesea splendens) as Leonidas is a kind of roses. Both are flowers.	There is a screen saver that has a flaming sword as descriptive name, but it is not a brand name. There is a novel. The name also partially match a TV serie. In the other hand, it is highly "themable"
Fontainebleau	is a neighborhood of New Orlenas, LA
Fred	is a Brazilian soccer player	http://www.photonengr.com/software.html (Optical engineering software)
Galler	Belgian chocolate. Gall also defines as "brazen boldness coupled with impudent assurance and insolence", which is fitting.	No apparent conflicts
Godiva	is a chocolatier	http://www.godivaimaging.com/ ?
Goliath	is also an expedition in 2009	No apparent conflicts
Gorbachev	was a President of the Soviet Union, so was Leonid (Russian version of Leonidas) Brezhnev	No apparent conflicts
Grandiflora	is a hybrid rose	No apparent conflicts
Hannibal	was a Carthaginian military commander	No apparent conflicts
Hubble	is an astonomer; a space telescope; an asteroid (2069)
Hippokoon	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
Hoffa	James Hoffa is a famous (MSU) Spartan
Homer	was also an ancient Greek poet	No apparent conflicts
Jackson	is the King (of pop) and lets us get to Keating for F13	Nothing obvious
Jennifer	Stephanie Leonidas is an actress, so is Jennifer Aniston	No apparent conflicts
Knuth	Donald Knuth is a famous (CWRU) Spartan
Kynortas	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Lakedaimon	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Lady Godiva	Leonidas is a famous character whose name was used for a belgian chocolate, so is Godiva. Lady Godiva was an English noblewoman who rode naked through the streets of Coventry Godiva
Lasus	was a Greek Poet	No apparent conflicts
Lelex	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
Lilofee	is an asteroid, as is Leonidas	No apparent conflicts
Lindius	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
Lion-O	was a leader with a name derived from the majestic panthera leo
Longfellow	is a poet
Lysimachus	was one of Alexander the Great's tutors
Magritte	was a Belgian painter	No apparent conflicts
Malcolm	was also a badass leader who fought against a much larger army. (Firefly)	No apparent conflicts
Mamba	type of APC	No apparent conflicts
Manticore	A mythological beast that is part Lion (Leonidas means "Lion-like") and who's name is derived from the Greek term "mantikhoras" which is an erroneous pronunciation of the original Persian name. Lion; Greece; Persia... all connections to Leonidas.	No apparent conflicts	Does not pass "is-a" test
Masaryk	there are two is a links with Leonidas on this one - leader and asteroid (Masaryk is asteroid 1841, Leonidas 2782)	No apparent conflicts
McCarthy	is a male protagonist in a Frank Miller graphic novel -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_McCarthy	There is a McCarthy Software, but the name is fairly generic
Meiji	is a chocolate manufacturer (look for "meiji almond chocholate"). is also a lot of cool japanese things (era, emperor, university ...)
Menelaus	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
Milca	is a chocolate manufacturer	No apparent conflicts
Milton	is a poem.	No apparent conflicts
Mimnermus	was a Greek Poet	No apparent conflicts
Moctezuma	was a governor -ruler- and a warrior.	No apparent conflicts
Morley	Edward Morley was a famous (CWRU) Spartan
µ (Mu)	is the 12th letter of the Greek alphabet	(does not follow link rule)
Munger	City in St. Louis County, Minnesota	No apparent conflicts
Myles	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
(Nadia) Boulanger	was famous teacher
Newen	represents the strength (newen in mapudungun) of leonidas	No apparent conflicts	Does not pass "is-a" test
Odysseus	was king of a Greek city-state in ancient times (Ithaca)	No apparent conflicts
Oibalos	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
One Two	is a Gerard Butler action movie character (AND the current Fedora release number)	A self-labeled synth-pop music duo calls itself Onetwo (no space) - no software/computer conflicts found
Orestes	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts
Orlias	is a river in Mountain Olympus	No apparent conflicts http://www.wildwater.it/it/orlias.php
Orionidas	is the Spanish name of a meteor shower in November, as is Leonidas (note: purposefully avoided diacritic signs)	No apparent conflicts
Paganini	was a voilinist	http://www.paganinisoftware.ch/ ?
Pancras	sanctified christian martyr
Pantaleon	was a Greek King	http://www.linkedin.com/in/nasosp, http://pantaleonsoft.com/
Pelé	is a Brazilian soccer player	He still alive and the name may be trademarked.
Penance	is a movement of the Delta Halo Suite, as is Leonidas	Nothing obvious
Perieres	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Perseidas	is a prolific meteor shower, bigger than leonidas; also Perseus was the hero who killed Medusa and claimed Andromeda, having rescued her from a sea monster.	No apparent conflicts	Does not pass "is-a" test. Meteor shower is named 'Leonids'
Phantom	(of the opera) is a role played by Gerald Butler, as is Leonidas
Pilgrims	Belgian chocolate producer	No apparent conflicts
Polyantha	is a hybrid rose	No apparent conflicts
Puma	is a armoured personnel carrier (APC)
Quetzalcoatl	is an asteroid, as is Leonidas	There is a compiler by the name of Quetzalcoatl...
Random	Leonidas is Spartaaaaaa, which is /b/, which is Random	The term Random is generic enough to result in all sorts of hits while still not posing problems. (does not follow link rule)
Ratio	is a word coming from the Latin, as is Leonidas
Rollins	City in St. Louis County, Minnesota; also, beefy guys in pop culture	No apparent conflicts
Romulus	Leonidas was the king of Spart as Romulus was the king of Rome (the firts one)!
Rugosa	is a rose, as is Leonidas. Rugosa is also a coral, a moon in star wars, a wrinkled frog. Roses are sold by the dozen, good theme for Fedora 12.	No apparent IT conflicts, http://rugosa.com/
Schneier	Bruce Schneier is a badass with encryption. (and kicks Chuck Norris and Leonadis hands down) http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/
Silverstein	is a poet
Sihabahu	In Greek, Leonidas (Λεωνίδας) means Lion's Son. Sihabahu is also a Burmese legendary hero, who is a Son of Lion.
Sócrates	is a Brazilian soccer player	He still alive, http://www.officeresearch.co.nz/products/workstations/socrates-computer-pods.htm
Sturla	Leonidas was a spear-wielding warrior who died in battle; Sturla (Sighvatsson, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturla_Sighvatsson) was a spear wielding warrior who died in battle.	No apparent conflicts, it's a name from the 12th century AD and only seems to come up in searches related to modern individuals with the same name. (Side note: Odin is already widely used in software related stuff, otherwise you'd have 2 famous spear wielding warriors who die at epic final stands.)
Sultry	is a type of hybrid tea rose	No apparent conflicts
Teisamenos	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Telephus	was a descendent of Heracles (King Leonidas was believed in mythology to be a descendant of Heracles, according to wikipedia)	No apparent conflicts with this spelling, but Telephos may have conflicts in .nz/.gr
Théoden	Théoden King of Rohan from the Lord of the Rings	No apparent conflicts
Theseus	was King of Athens	No apparent conflicts
Touro	... neighborhood of New Orleans, LA, USA	Touro is a college, but no software references
Truffle	Truffles are made by the Leonidas Belgian Chocolate company
Tyandareos	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Tyndareos	was a King of Sparta	No apparent conflicts	link out?
Ulysses	was king of a Greek city-state in ancient times (Ithaca) (Latin name of Odysseus)	No apparent conflicts
Vaughan	is a doctoral student of Donald Knuth	Searched Google with linux, software, os. Nothing obvious	Does not obviously pass "is-a" test. Reference?
Villars	is a swiss village and also a swiss chocolate make	No apparent conflicts, it's a common name
Wallace	is a male protagonist in a Frank Miller graphic novel -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_%28Sin_City%29 . Also, is a great military leader who faced insurmountable odds (William Wallace).	There is a Wallace Software that makes auto dealership management software, but the name is fairly generic
Warspite	was a Royal Navy ship	(reuses previous link)
Wonka	is a Chocolate manufacturer (in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and so is Leonidas. Is also a city in Myanmar
Xenophanes	was an Ancient Greek who died in 480BC	No apparent conflicts	Link not very specific.
Xerxes	was a commander in the Battle of Thermopylae	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas
Yuri	was a president of the USSR	http://www.yurisw.com/ ?
Zachariah	is the first name of a confederate general, as is Leonidas	No apparent conflicts. There is however a musician
Zico	is a Brazilian soccer player	He still alive, no other apparent conflict
Name	"Is a..."	Tested	Initial Approval	Themeable	Board Approved	Legal Approved

Various connections that could be explored. "Leonidas is a ..."

• King
• Movie character
• Poem title
• Chain of (chocolate) stores
• Asteroids

Approval Mark Legend

Approval Mark	Meaning
	Approved
	Rejected
	Under review

Rejected Suggestions

Name	"Is a..."	Tested	Initial Approval	Board Approved	Legal Approved
Ada	Township in Michigan	http://www.adasoftware.com/index_netscape.htm
Achilles	was also a heel	No apparent conflicts (subjective, tenuous link)
Benedictus	a part of the eucharistic prayer, song by Simon and Garfunkel, name of XVI Popes	(does not follow link rule)
blackrock	Just a cool name.	(does not follow link rule)
Connor	is also an "immortal", from the Highlander movies	(does not follow link rule. Leonidas was not an immortal (he died, remember). That was the name of the enemies he fought.)
Destination	... route after rom over more than one way.	No apparent conflicts	Does not pass "is-a" test. Please rephrase if necessary.
Intrepid	was a (British) Royal Navy ship	Conflicts with another distribution :) Link cannot be "ship" again
Sparta	Leonidas was a battle ship and King Leonidas of Sparta died in a battle	No apparent conflicts	Does not pass "is-a" test
Spartacus	Fought for freedom from the Monolith, Leonidas=(Sparta)n, Spartacus=(Sparta)cus	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartacus (does not follow link rule)