Whonix Host - Live / Persistent Boot - looking for good product name

Patrick · May 15, 2020, 6:19pm

A good name for Whonix Host is needed as Whonix Host alone isn’t very descriptive / not sounding very exciting.

What I don’t like about Whonix Live is that it sounds too limited too.

It’s not only Live.
The great thing is, we can combine the best of both worlds. Boot into persistent mode by choosing so at grub boot meu, upgrade everything and on demand reboot into Live mode by choosing live boot in grub boot menu.
It’s also based on hardened debian (rename required, too) which comes with many enhanced default security enhancement such as jitterentropy-rng installed by default.

Whonix Host name suggestions welcome.

Patrick · May 9, 2019, 10:50am

Whonix Duo was a suggestion by @HulaHoop.

That’s a good one, and good line of thought.

Perhaps we can combine a word like live and persistent?

Whonix perslive
Whonix persylive
Whonix persolive
Whonix livepersi
Whonix liveopersi
Whonix liveor
Whonix lifer

[live liver livest]

Whonix Living
Whonix live|pers
Whonix livepers
Whonix lifpers

Whonix host naming is more easy since we don’t invent something totally new (hardened debian) since we can include “Whonix” in the name.

We can also consider synonyms for live (maybe not so much) and persistent.

Also might be good to keep the style adding a dash ("-") in between, i.e.:

Whonix-LivePers

Other words to mix:

some
save

Such as:

Whonix-LiveSave
Whonix-LiveSaver
Whonix-LiveSaving
Whonix-SaveLive
Whonix-SaverLive
Whonix-SavingLive
Whonix-OrLive
Whonix-AndLive
Whonix-Alive
Whonix-ChoseLive
Whonix-LiveChoice
Whonix-YesLiveNo
Whonix-NoLiveYes
Whonix-AltLive

Also to be considered:

synonyms of Live and Persistent.

Please state which ones you like.

onion_knight · May 9, 2019, 7:07pm

I like Whonix Duo

Not feeling very enthusiastic about the other ones

I saw “Whonix One” somewhere I think? I like it too, it conveys the meaning of having all features integrated into a single ISO (live mode, installer, persistence…).

sheep · May 10, 2019, 5:30am

Whonix Base / Whobase
Whonix Integrated / Integrated Whonix / Intnix
Whonix Space / WhoSpace
Whonix Enviornment / WhoEnv
Mega Whonix / Megnix
Fullnix
Wholenix
Entirenix

Whonix Duo sounds interesting but may imply versioning to some. Whonix One surely will be confusing. Next version - Whonix One 2.0 ?

Perhaps borrow elements from the corresponding Debian nickname (allowed?)

WhoBuster
WhoBullseye
WhoBookworm

Patrick · May 10, 2019, 5:50am

Problem with this is that these don’t imply [high priority in name] live
/ persistent or hardened [low priority in name].

Whonix Duo sounds interesting but may imply versioning to some.

Indeed.

Perhaps borrow elements from the corresponding Debian nickname (allowed?)

Possibly but same as above.

sheep · May 10, 2019, 6:13am

Ok, so if we want to sound flexible, polymorphic, multi-options, perhaps something like -

WhonixFlex
WhonixPoly, Polymorphnix, Polynix…
MultiNix, Whonix Multiform
Chameleon

But then we step away from the “integrated” nature of the system.

HulaHoop · May 10, 2019, 4:25pm

What about?

Whonix Antero

EDIT:

We can play around with the capitalization so it gives a nice acronym:

Whonix AnTero ->WAT

or as a forgetful or coy person might ask

onion_knight · May 16, 2019, 6:21am

Some suggestions for Whonix Host:

Whonix Desktop (I know, but I like it)
Whonix Desk
Whonix Strong
Whonix Real
Whonix Solid
Whonix Keep
Whonix Fortress
Whonix Citadel
Whonix Firm
Whonix Metal
Whonix Silicon
Whonix Steel
Whonix Box

TNT_BOM_BOM · May 17, 2019, 11:46am

I have already suggested to follow cartoon nomenclature same as debian but seems no body liked that though its way much easier naming.

sheep · May 18, 2019, 2:50pm

I like this one. Short and simple.

hellresistor · June 4, 2020, 6:22pm

Battosai
Battosai

81a989 · July 31, 2020, 8:51pm

KeepWhonixLive: a hardened host for Whonix

HulaHoop · August 5, 2020, 12:08pm

Nice suggestion. Perhaps a better flowing name is Whonix Keep. It has an interesting meaning besides implying persistence/permanence. A keep is the fortified castle in English forts from the Middle Ages. This symbolizes a hardened host and also a safe sanctuary where the system lord/admin is in control.

81a989 · August 10, 2020, 5:32am

I like that reference, but I think that two words can’t meet the naming constraints. Three should be better.