After a one and a fractional twelvemonth choice process, the new name of the functioning scheme formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our extremely own conference. From now on this project is known as Nura!
Nura comes as an abbreviation of Nuraghe, which are ancient (3000 BC and older) granite structures established in Sardinia in Italy, many of which motionless remain today. The deeper definition is the stability and the opposition to millenniums, which fits fine alongside the our project as the idea has been from the commencement to keep devices our OS runs on helpful for a lengthy time. The name was contributed by Davide Depau as part of our first petition for community contributions for the new name. Thanks a lot Davide!
FAQ
Why are you renaming the project?
Through the years, most members of the squad have informed difficulties doing outreach for "postmarketOS" because of the complexity of the name. The name is lengthy and can be extremely difficult to pronounce in many languages. This additionally has the conclusion that it gets extremely difficult to recall in those identical languages.
The capitalization is additionally grammatically awkward, alongside lower-case "p" and "m" but upper-case "OS". We have seen Postmarketos (PostMarketOS?, PostmarketOS?, post-market OS?) written in too many ways, which is confusing to the two the audience and the writer.
Finally the name is descriptive. Although that can assistance group comprehend what the project is about, it additionally limits the range of the project in ways that were out-of-touch alongside actuality lengthy ago, for example whenever PINE64 sold PinePhones alongside postmarketOS pre-installed. What was initially an asset, became a liability following all these years. The name being descriptive additionally method it cannot be trademarked. We accept trademarks can be important, as it allows the project to defend users against fraudulent uses of the name, or users plainly misaligned alongside the project goals. A trademark for the new name has already been filled.
All in all, "postmarketOS" has served us extremely well, it brought us to anywhere we are now, and volition continually be part of our history. At the identical time, we accept that to create the project improved known exterior the hacker community, a rename to a name alongside small definition and easier to write, pronounce, and recall would be of advantage of the project.
Is the logo going to remain?
Yes, we really akin the logo and its association alongside our mission, and we don't see a need for a change, despite of the rename.
You announced the first alter in March 2025, and it's now former mid 2026, why did it obtain so long?
Changing item that is center to the project identity, akin its name, is not item done lightly. Our initial process did not create the agreement that we expected, so we came up alongside new approach that caused this new name. We have additionally been waiting for trademark lawyers, and eventually it made awareness to delay several weeks to province it at our conference.
Why is the new domain Nura.eco alternatively of Nura.org?
Although there is no community location in Nura.org, the domain is taken. We sent an recommendation to the owner through a broker, but the owner did not regard marketing it for a sensible price. We looked for alternatives and established the eco domain, which we akin equal additional now! Eco is abbreviated for ecology and the intended use is: ".eco is open to organizations, businesses and group committed to affirmative alter for the planet". The .eco domain has powerful policies which forestall abuse of the domain for greenwashing, adding another tier of accountability. It fair fits absolutely alongside our goal and goals.
How was the new name chosen?
A choice squad composed by Pablo, Pan, Ranny, and Sriram Ramkrishna (thank you all!) was tasked to choose fine names that would encounter the criteria from the 300+ the community shared alongside us. The squad did multiple rounds through the list, evaluated pros and cons of distinct names, and came up alongside a recommendation of 4 names for the squad to choose from. Those names went through additional triaging to create certain it didn't have extremely problematic connotations in as many languages as we could discover speakers, from all continents. All of them passed the criteria, and anywhere put to a ballot inside the squad using range voting. Nura was the name alongside the highest value, and received a 0.4 average for a ballot between -2 and 2. It was hence chosen as our next name.
Are you doing any another changes to the brand than the name?
Yes, there are several small updates to the logo! Ranny identified and fixed several small design inconsistencies in the logo, and we used the name alter as an chance to update it too. Due to slightly additional spacing between the arrows, it is now a bit additional legible from additional distances. Furthermore it is additionally now mathematically constructed, so anyone can reproduce it!
Why am I motionless seeing "postmarketOS" used in multiple places?
The renaming of all user-facing strings power obtain a while. If you notice a location anywhere we missed something, any contribution in the form of Merge Requests to update it to Nura would be excellent helpful. If you notice it is taking a during to update, and you do not have the skills to update it, beginning issues to prompt the squad would additionally be welcomed.
This blog article was written by Pablo, Ranny, Oliver.
