How Terra Components are/were Named

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Andaman

anda is our build toolchain for building rpm packages. It’s currently just a thin wrapper around rpmbuild and mock.

Andaman is named after the Andaman Sea by Cappy. (Fedora → Sea reference; Ultramarine Linux Thai origin → Andaman)

Subatomic

Pretty sure subatomic was named by Cappy. It also could be Lea. I’m not too sure.

Jade mentioned that subatomic was named that way to fit into other tauOS components. For context, “common” in Andaman Common repositories was referring to Ultramarine and tauOS.

Kiritan

Obviously I was the one who named it きりたん(kiritan). The motivation is described by that manga you see in README and the blog post.

Tetsudou

Me and Cappy named tetsudou after なんとか(nantoka) 鉄道(tetsudou)の(no)夕(yuu) by 海茶(umicha). Cappy was looking for a J-pop song, I was looking for a Kaiwai song. And yes, we had (or have?) a tradition of naming things after Japanese music.

Madoguchi

Madoguchi was named by me mado after JR みどりの窓口(midori no madoguchi). There was no particular reason other than… well, you see, an API kinda acts like a service desk or honestly I don’t know.

Tuatara

Quote from internal conversations:

a lizard like reptile that lives along rocks so…terra relations also sounds like Terra

gawr gura

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