If you look “/e/ os” then the first results that come out are the right ones!
Besides, it’s not like only apple can get her OS with a letter, right?!? 
No, nothing has changed, the two major problems are still there.
- Browsers still think /e/ is
efile located just after your disk root, that will never change. - /e/ gives no results in the first page on Startpage (google) and Duckduckgo, because they think you search for the letter
e, it’s very unlikely to change.
You must search for /e/ foundation or /e/ OS to find results. But the OS is named /e/, not /e/ OS.
Just compare to eelo: the whole first page is about the os currently named /e/, without needing to search for eelo OS or eelo foundation. (I’m talking about Startpage here (google), not duckduckgo, because Google is way more important in term of trafic and anyway duckduckgo still gives e.foundation as first result)
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The new name launch was planned for one of the big phone events at the start of 2020..then 2020 turned out to be quite different to other years…lockdowns, work from home and what not. Ideally the new name should come out as part of a big technical event to maximize the impact and news coverage. A name change is still on the cards though I think most of us are getting used to /e/ 
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/e/ = slashy slash (where y = “e”)
slashy
slashy OS
whatever, take your pick… any variation using the slash in the name would be hip and marketable (i’m guessing)
What about: EasyPrivacy OS ?
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Name suggestion: eedom os.
As in freedom.
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i think eOS would just be best, and it can stand for “ethical OS”
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Wow, great! I really like “e” for this community, and in fact enough times I write eOS instead of /e/OS. Also that it could stand for ethical OS is great.
The only problem I see is with the project name, not with the OS. Naming some project with a letter name use to be problemous:
- it’s not recognized as a word or name as there are almost no monosilabic words, apart from prepositions, on many languages.
- for the internet, it would not be easy to find the project instead the letter (or random results containing that letter)
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eOS is too close to iOS and could cause some misunderstandings. For example, the french “i” is pronounced kinda like the English “e”, so both OS could sound the same depending on the accent you use.
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EOS somehow reminds me some japanese camera
fOS, free OS ?
Edit . I went through all the posts. Please ignore all the above
What about European OS?
Just for some extra fun.
FOS. Definitely a very bad choice !!
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=F.O.S. (add last dot in the URL)
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Europe + India + Brazil + …
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Un fact, gg is everywhere in world wide web. So /e/ can stand and grow up everywhere in the world 
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No, /e/ is global… !
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Just Easy.
If there is Easy installer already.
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Seen that many people is searching words to relate to “e”, maybe it would be better to really think about if that is an appropriate name (I like it, but I think it’s not appropriate)
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hee all - I also like the animal theme that Thunderbird and Firefox have going on. How about a transluscent animal, because of /e/'s focus on privacy and transparency? See here for some inspiration:
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Macropinna Microstoma really rolls off the tongue 
Most of those are only transparent when juvenile. It might give the impression of bait and switch.
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