As for Mandrake-Linux, the new name is a comic’s title :
French : Murena — Wikipédia
English : Murena (comic book) - Wikipedia
Nice name. Should I wear heavy gloves when I use my Mur/e/na ???
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It’s a car, actually.
I hope nobody else owns the rights to the name anymore and senses likelihood of confusion 
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OK, but not the OS.
It’s still /e/OS
How do you pronounce it? Looks like an Arabic name.
“Mareena”
“Marinaa”
“Miurena”
“Miureena”
“Mareena” is an Arabic name for women.
I like it. Good work.
Is this the new name of the e Foundation or the e/OS or both?
None of them !
It may be a brand name for paid things : phone, cloud.
commercialised by E.solussions
“running an E.corp/OS ?”
based on the /e/OS
from e.foundation 's development,
beta-tested by the e.community
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The link to the explanation is given in the first post.
Yes, I was scrolling quickly and missed it.
I doubt that it helps to keep the old name of the operating system, but time will tell.
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Do you know for a fact that this is named after a comic, or are you just guessing? It would really be useful if there was an official announcement from the E foundation that described why such a rename was necessary, and what the new name means. The post that you link to is simply a personal blog by Gael.
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I don’t care, I’ll just call it Murena from now on and I dare anyone to try and stop me 
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No, srsly, when I started looking into custom roms, it actually took me a while to understand, that /e/ was not some piece of code or android insider talk, but an actual OS I could install. I really didn’t understand what folks in the Fairphone forum were talking about, suggesting to install this mysterious letter.
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