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Comment by rjplatte | Hacker News Reader

Wouldn't popcorn be a better name?

"McKernel" is great, it both somehow refers to the architecture, to the fact that it's a kernel, and is unique and googleable.

"Popcorn" is generic and makes it hard to search for the project, and easy to clash with another project of the same name.

I wish people invented good unique name for projects, instead of trying to make a (b)ackronym or a subtle reference using a generic word.

This does kinda sound like something off the Dollar Menu, though.

Only to the American audience. Doubtful that it evokes the same association in Japan (www-sys-aics.riken.jp).

McDonald's is in Japan.

But in Japan, is the culture there to associated all the Mc's with McDonald's, like in America? Do they even have the "Dollar" menu (Yen menu?).

Anyways, I doubt naming McKernel had any thoughts of McDonald's and the implication of the cheap dollar menu.

They have おてごろマック, which is ¥200: http://www.mcdonalds.co.jp/menu/otegoro/

They'd have called it the Kernel Royale.

Kernel Royale doesn't sound cheap to me, in fact, sounds regal =P

Royale with cheese!

Popcorn Linux is a thing, and it's a multi-kernel OS too: http://popcornlinux.org (I would know, I've been working on it for a few years).

There was even such a thing as "MkLinux", once upon a time! It was the first Linux variant I ever used.