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elementary OS Changes Its Name from Isis to Freya

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Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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The upcoming elementary OS Isis has changed its name to Freya due to an unfortunate coincidence with the terrorist group that is now very active in the Middle East.

The upcoming elementary OS Isis has changed its name to Freya due to an unfortunate coincidence with the terrorist group that is now very active in the Middle East.

Many users have raised this issue in the last few weeks and the elementary OS developers were forced to abandon the Isis codename in order to make sure that people don't make any connections.

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is here: http://elementaryos.org/journal/elementary-os-isis-is-now-fr...

somehow softpedia makes me uneasy with links to their sources either missing or hard to find...

greetings, eMBee.

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