KDE PIM service the name (with a "K" in it) of a Ghanaian goddess (of justice and protection)Īlacarte previously the Simple Menu Editor for Gnome. It's "age- du" (as in, atime-sensitive disk-usage scanner), not "agadoo", but the confusion is officially toleratedĪiksaurus - a thesaurus, formerly AbiSaurus, but what is an AIK? AbiSource integrated kernel? Automated installation kit? Allmänna Idrotts klubben? I need an Arbitrary Initialism Knowledgebase
(ex-package) a palette-coordinating tool, previously known as colorscheme but that gave the wrong impression of its functionality, hence the switch to something completely uninformative - the agave isn't exactly renowned for its beauty, though I suppose the "G" might hint at a GNOME connection
Compare kopano-* Is there a tradition of naming software after random zoo animals, or is it just that they're drawing from a similar pool of "cool" words?Īn exiguous (that is, meager or scanty) window manager (GNOME theme) There was an Aldabra tortoise with this name (meaning "one and only" in Sanskrit) that died in 2006 aged at least 150 and probably 255. Installed package adequacy checker or rather, a Debian quality tester The ACME Crossassembler for Multiple Environments The word processor designed for AbiSource's AbiSuite, where "abi(erto)" is Spanish for "open" If you don't see the answer to the question there, it's because they're assuming you know that LDAP uses port 389Ī better CD encoder (in the sense of "it's a CD encoder that's better than its rivals", not "it makes a better CD encoder than a window manager") Named "Fedora Directory Server" before they got cold feet about the branding - see the FAQ. Jump to: 2 3 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZĪ 2-way ping, able to find out if a packet was lost on the way to a 2ping server or on the way back Also, refer to The Jargon File and the Jargon Chaff File, to have a source other than Wikipedia. See Wikipedia for lists of etymologies for general computer jargon (including "Debian") and company names (no longer including "Debian"). And am I imagining it or does a baffling name tend to correlate with a short lifespan as a Debian package? It's getting ever closer to the point where it also needs a rule "never link to external docs assume linkrot is inevitable, and just link to the copy from the start".
It is okay if the explanation boils down to "arbitrary nonsense-word" or "random cool animal".
Xyzutils doesn't need an entry here if XYZ is genuinely self-evident or explained in the package description it's only for software that is or at least was in Debian (preferably Stable/Testing main), and it's ASCIIbetical by binary package.Suggested guidelines for adding to the list: Giving cryptic names to software is a well-established UNIX tradition, and the explanations are often missing from the documentation, either because the developers imagine it's obvious (usually wrongly) or because they think nobody cares (and here they're usually right, or it would turn up as FAQ material). An IT-etymology/linuxguistics page for people wondering "how come the package yasysmand-cling has such a strange name?"