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Agreed, but GeekOS or whatever it was they had on that oSC slide ... Cheesus, they can do better than that.
Yeah, I get the mascot's name is Geeko, so maybe that is where they're getting GeekOS. But I think I read that the mascot has to go together with the name anyway.
On recent performance, no they can't. I mean, they had the chance to use Driftwood and went with Slowroll.
There is no "current proposal" at this point.
What about the proposal to just drop the name openSUSE with no replacement? And let each distro just be called Tumbleweed, Leap, Aeon, etc.
That could be a branding strategy, I guess, but the community project behind it will still need a name of some kind obviously. Unless they only want to show up at conferences/have a website url etc as "the project whose name shall not be mentioned".
Go the Prince route, "the project formerly known as OpenSUSE".